Spymaster Ralnor
By virtue of his of his elven blood and being a consumate survivor, Ralnor is easily the oldest member of the Fumayan court.
He was appointed spymaster late in the reign of King Cezary Linijka III, the Game and has retained his position for just over ninety years. He has a private suspicion he won't be able to last a century in his post.
In his ninety year post, has reported directly to no less than six kings of Fumaya including the current crown holder, King Henryk III Linijka the young king.
Ralnor especially admired King Arwid Linijika the Warrior Scholar who was wise and just but knew enough realpolik to give his spymaster a lot of leeway to solve problems with minimal oversight. Ralnor often likes to encourage King Henryk to read Arwid's memoirs and journals.
Ralnor has seen a mix of wise kings and foolish and Ralnor believes that Henryk is of the wise sort, but Henryk is arguably facing larger challenges than any of his forefathers. Given that Swynafaredia is staring down a full-scale invasion and is still reeling from internal problems that were theoretically fixed by allied adventurers but still left scars.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Ralnor is technically a Half-Satyr baby but half-satyrs and half-elves are very hard to tell apart, and as a consumate spy, Ralnor likes to be mysterious and vague about his origins. He usually dodges questions of his parents and insinuates that he is a Half wood elf.
He grew up with working poor single mother in Ivanna City and spent almost many nights in the gutter as under his mother's roof. As a child, he fell in with the "wrong crowd" and became a free-lance pick pocket and occasional courier for disreputable sorts, but at one point in his childhood, his life was saved by a Fumayan knight and this gave him a sense of loyalty to the Kingdom of Fumaya despite his harsh upbringing.
He was recruited as an informant by a lieutenant of the previous Fumayan spymaster and eventually came to the spymaster's notice impressing him with his wits and tenacity. He became Spymaster of Fumaya in 1747 and held the position ever since.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Ralnor takes pride in that the Kingdom of Fumaya has been fairly peaceful and stable during his tenure of spy master with few major scandals in almost a century.
In the last few years, no fewer than four major conspiracies were recently exposed and dismantled in Fumaya. These efforts were exposed by the mostly independent efforts of adventuring sponsored by Fumaya's Nonagon rather than by Ralnor's spy network.
Not that Ralnor hasn't been busy or helpful. When adventurers swoop into "save the day" they leave a lot of loose ends that need to be cleaned up.
Failures & Embarrassments
Ralnor has been the Fumayan Spymaster for ninety years. No one plays politics at that level for that long and claims a 100% win rate, but Ralnor is not normally the sort to beat himself up over his failures. He dusts himself off and gets back on the horse.
Ralnor's biggest failure as far as he believes is when a large cellskin changer witches sneaked into the capital city of King's Lake during the reign of King Arwid the Warrior Scholar. The ogres were eventually rooted out but not without dozens of innocents dying and hundreds of homes and businesses burning down.
The last years of Ralnor's tenure have not been especially proud moments for the elderly spy master. During the tenure of the previous monarch, King Ziven the Merry, Ralnor spent more time obfuscating Ziven's illicit love affairs and drunken stupors than he did safeguarding the realms.
Ralnor believes his partially responsible for the current problems afflicting King Henryk's reign. During the last couple years of King Ziven's reign a lot of Ralnor's best agents died from unlikely mishaps or disappeared altogether and Ralnor has no hard evidence on who is responsible.
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Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Year of Birth
1665 CE
173 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
Phidas' Zodiac Year
Children
Sex
male
Eyes
green
Hair
grey
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
brown
Height
5'8"
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