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Basics
| NAME: Bastien AGE: Late 30s NATIONALITY: Orlesian RACE: Human OCCUPATION: "Printer" TITLE/RANK: n/a |
HEIGHT: 5'8" BUILD: Average HAIR: Black EYES: Black SKIN: Pale olive BEARING: Approachable |
| DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Mustache, dimple, abundant eye crinkles when he smiles. Hair wants to curl but is being oppressed by products and combs. Dresses like a not-too-wealthy but not-too-poor Orlesian commoner—no mask, more subdued colors and silhouettes than the nobility, but tidy and vaguely, casually fashionable. Significant old blade-inflicted scar dragging from his right hip down his thigh. Carries himself quietly, but with confidence. Sits on tables even when there's a perfectly good chair right there. | |
Status
DIVISION: Scouting
POST: Master of Information
PROJECT(S): Clothilde
Bastien has been with Riftwatch since before it was Riftwatch, but the switch to the Scouting Division is pretty recent. He lives with Byerly Rutyer in a little house in Lowtown, positioned along a main thoroughfare between the docks and the stairs up to Hightown. He works outside of the Gallows a lot, but he usually comes to the office for at least part of the day if he's in town.
Reputation
Bastien is a bard (retired, he says, while continuing to do almost everything a bard does) from Val Royeaux, the best city in Thedas. He joined Riftwatch after the Battle of Ghislain, back when it was still an Inquisition outpost, under an assumed name that he's since abandoned. He was a member of the Diplomacy Division for the first five(!) years before switching to Scouting. On top of his usual work, he's edited a collection of rifter folklore and the diaries of Servana de Montfort for publication, and he prints the Hangman's Papers, Riftwatch's internal newsletter.
Outside of Riftwatch, he's involved with the local artist and philosopher crowd and prints an anarchist/proto-socialist tinged newsletter called The Quarry. He plays the cello and he's involved with Byerly Rutyer.
Around friends and colleagues, he's polite, friendly, chatty with people who want to chat, quiet with people who don't, and devoid of temper. In the field, he's cool-headed, breezily efficient, and a fabulous liar.
Hooks
God I don't know just RP with me.
