I wouldn't mind taking over this guy:<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">2. Duke Harval Winchester, a very wise and elderly gentleman with grey hair and slender build. He was a powerful general of the King's troops, earning his title in the War of the Thorns, making him the Duke of Thornwall. He has control of the Southern region by orders of the King. He has a sharp mind and keen wit. He knows of the Baron's ambition, and has assigned the Arch Magister to keep an eye on him and to report back.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Maybe an old war buddy of Doryn's, and one of the reasons that Doryn is now a Noble in the City?? XD<br/><br/>(I figure Doryn needs SOME friends amongst the Nobility.)<br/><br/>For the record, on the subject of the Baron, I told Verasaille about this in PM's before we decided to take this IC. Once he discovers that his Gem is missing,-- probably, if I had to guess, after he tries to use it and fails utterly to produce any effect,-- he might want to use the City Guard to help him locate it. Except... Doryn is in charge there.. n' if he's going to investigate a theft, he needs to know what was stolen, and "a Gem" is not exactly sufficient for an investigation. He'd also have to let the Guard actually, you know,<em>investigate</em>. All things that he'd probably know about and probably be unwilling to do.<br/><br/>He might, instead, try to work at this from an angle,-- co-opting some of Doryn's guard assets,-- which Doryn can himself learn about through some of his loyal retainers.<br/><br/>Whose loyalty, of course, is unquestionable.<br/><br/>XD