I have place you in the thread. Where I describe two men, one dark, the other fair, you're the fair one.
The dark one is Balthazar Menelaos.
Balthazar Menelaos
For the sake of simplicity, let's make you two friends, okay? He works for the man who is in charge of organizing the group mentioned in my previous post.
He's well-traveled... you two could've met at some point during your formal education. In fact, he wears a signet ring, an onyx cabochon set with an insignia of two golden crossed keys, that is the symbol of a group of rich bastards who generally plotted nasty things at the University he attended. If you wish, you can have an identical ring, having belonged to the same secret organization. Similar in concept to the Skull and Bones at Yale. I'll give you more information if you go for this option.
He is rather dark and serious, but has a dry, sarcastic wit. He also thinks poor people are poor because of their inherent inferiority. His family is nouveau rich, having scrabbled their way up to respectability, though they have distant aristocratic roots. Balthazar firmly believes they were able to drag themselves out of poverty because they had wealth in their bloodline. He has a strong sense of entitlement, and is a real bastard. But slick and dangerous. He is also contemptuous of his own family, thinking they are not as ruthless as they should be.
His employer says that the newly founded group of wealthy and influential citizens of Fairhaven want, for undisclosed reasons, to see the Stile flourish in the city. This is backed up by their exclusion of former Brotherhood members.
They are looking for individuals to infiltrate the main church of Zilchus and, after assessing the situation and forming a viable plan, to assassinate the archbishop.
The people you two are meeting have no idea what it is they are going to be asked to do.
Balthazar tells you that his boss, one Meridin Caraster, is concerned that one of the members of their organization is jockeying to take it over and fold it into a mysterious group known as the Praetor Syndicate.
According to Balthazar, the Praetor Syndicate is a group of non-human assassins. Their motives are incomprehensible, and they are rumored to count Rakshasa and Mind Flayers among their members. This is information you'd have gotten from him while he was drinking, along with slurred warnings to never, ever mention the Praetor Syndicate to anyone.
Meridin Caraster has taken arranging the death of the Archbishop into his own hands in order to prevent the Praetor Syndicate from gaining power within his own group.
Asdar Sagid
