<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Personalities of Interest, sorted by Location</em></strong></span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Farran<strong></strong></strong></span></div><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc"> <strong>Lady Sybil Cruagh</strong> - (human) The Merchant Lord of Steel based in Farran, Lady Cruagh openly supports the children of the former Lyonesse empire in their struggles, despite the City State’s assurance of neutrality to its neighbours. She owns a villa in Upper Farran from which she supervises her business, keeping an eye on her import and export negotiations while leaving physical work such as transportation to those below her. Primarily an arms dealer, it’s rumored she also operates a private military corporation. In addition she also holds a seat on the Farran City Council.<br/></li><li type="disc"><strong>Circusmaster Pennywise</strong> - (human?) The leader of the Carnival of Chaos (despite its dislike of leadership), generally considered to be the only one who can keep the carnival contained to its small location in Farran, that its influence spreads no farther than its temple walls.<br/></li><li type="disc"><strong>Sevran Banballow</strong> - (kenku) The militant commander of Midnight Steel, Banballow is a deeply religious old crow who prefers that darkness below ground rather than the open skies as his avian kin. Also known to be the owner of the Midnight Silk burlesque house, a building that is part of both upper and lower Farran.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Biblio<strong></strong></strong></span></div></li><li type="disc"><strong>The Archivist</strong> - (thri-kreen) Former King of Biblio and Merchant King of the Skies, the supposed immortal is now content with the title of Merchant Lord of Knowledge. As the name may suggest, The Archivist is a keen hoarder of information, some of which is given away freely to the public eye through his vast library on Biblios, some sold for a price and more still kept to himself.<br/></li><li type="disc"><strong>The Librariat</strong> - (mixed) A group under The Archivist who maintain his library and the cencus, making sure castes are not mixed. It is also through the librariat that deals for the Archivists more precious information are brokered.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Aesir<strong></strong></strong></span></div></li><li type="disc"><strong>Allfather Odin</strong> - (goliath) Current champion and king of Aesir, said to be the strongest man in the world. However, his age is beginning to catch up with him and he believes the next Holmgang shall be soon, lest his country end up as Lyonesse is now.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Hadron<strong></strong></strong></span></div></li><li type="disc"><strong>Adrianna</strong> - (revanant/lich) High Lich Queen of Hadron, this seemingly small girl uses most of her power daily to hold her people together in body and spirit, transferring the damaged into bodies of the beautiful dolls left behind by the inhabitants long ago.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Lyonesse<strong></strong></strong></span></div></li><li type="disc"><strong>Prince Rembrandt</strong> - (genasi) The younger of the former Lyonesse Emperor’s children, Rembrandt's youth and inexperience doesn’t lend itself well to the battlefield as his sister’s passion does, but the young man is said to have a brilliant mind for military strategy, diplomacy and economy. He and Saskia rally followers through the memory of their father’s rule.<br/></li><li type="disc"><strong>Princess Saskia</strong> - (genasi) The elder of the former Lyonesse Emperor’s children, due to Rembrandt's birth however, she is unable to ascend to the throne should her father have named his bloodline heir before his death. As such, she resigns herself to combat (something she at very least loves), pouring all of herself into the bloody campaign against rival aristocracy to claim her brother’s position between throne and crown. She is currently residing in the Capital, nursing a rather nasty wound obtained on the battlefield.<br/></li><li type="disc"><strong>Lord Albracht</strong> - (human) A noble with connections to the Imperial throne, a favored of the Emperor at court and claims he would wave wanted Albracht to rule in his passing. Rallies followers through funds vast enough to make a Merchant Lord blush.<br/></li><li type="disc"><strong>Archbishop Langley</strong> - (human) Head of the Empire’s monotheistic church who desires the throne to appease their god, rallying his followers through religious zeal.<br/></li></ul>