PC - Kaz Anders - Francis Summoner

Francis PC – Kaz Anders

There were two children, a brother and a sister, who were taken and made to join the Little Lamms - and, unusually they worked as a team. He'd play a slightly flamboyant distraction for her pickpocketing skills, bringing in far more income together than they would separately. Not a bad set of earners but ultimately they made mistakes and robbed the wrong people. Both were savagely beaten and thrown out on the rubbish dump to die. He survived. She did not.

When he realised she was dead he swore revenge on his life - but she heard the oath before her spirit departed the plane and managed to tap into both their latent magics to haunt and help him - and to settle her own score with Gaedren Lamm.

Class: Summoner, with the sister being the Eidolon. Background: Tortured.

“Kaz Anders” (and if you think that’s his real name, he’s got some beachfront property to sell you) has multiple stories he will tell about what happened when he was little and if pressed himself will admit that it was a load of old cobblers.  That he (and his sister Marie) were actually the children of a couple of shoe repairers is just something that adds to his amusement and glee in storytelling.

Their father died when they were seven, and their mother died three months later of a broken heart.  With two already scrawny kids trying to fend for themselves it was entirely predictable that they were picked up less than a month later to join the Little Lamms.  And remained together as one of the more effective teams in the Little Lamms; he’d cause a distraction and while everyone was stopped, gawping she’d pick their pockets.  Or, more rarely, vise-versa.  But his biggest con was to convince everyone (with her assistance) that his sister Marie was, in fact, his identical twin brother Mark as both of them had seen the likely fate of street girls (and of the two “Kaz” was the prettier).  It took an elaborate shell game with his flair and her attention to detail (and, to be honest, sheer terror on both their parts) to work the whole con on people they lived with - especially when a number of distractions called for a pretty girl (which could have been either of them).  Kaz will sometimes talk, seemingly freely, about this part of his life.  The stories he tells are all either carefully selected or sanitised - or (and as often as not) complete fabrications.  And most of the people he knew back then are dead or in prison.

But all good things must come to an end - and the shell game ran into puberty.  One’s figure started to change, the other’s voice started to break.  Oops.  Cutting a long and unpleasant story short, they ended up both caught out and punished for the ongoing deception that had on two occasions fooled.  A very unpleasant few hours followed, ending with both of them being thrown out onto the rubbish dump and left for dead.

Trinia Sabor’s painting “The price of wealth” contains a pretty young boy and girl, fingers interlaced and gazes locked, and with scarlet blood running out of them into a dull green mountain of garbage as the sun sets red behind them.  It was her second painting thought to be great, but is seldom shown because people find it distressing. The companion piece, the much more impressionistic and much better received (although few see the biting satire because the paintings are seldom side by side and few look at the detail of the “bed” or see the departure of the girl’s soul and the greying of her eyes) “Greater Love” which has the same boy and girl on silk sheets and a gold-lit room, the girl’s eyes shining as the boy is surrounded by a healing fire.  Those were both drawn and painted in retrospect while he was bandaged up and in her chambers, recovering after she pulled him out of the rubbish dump.  He’s also her muse in a number of other paintings and background in still others - something that worries him especially as he’s a conman and trickster at times and doesn't want anything bad happening to the person who saved his life.

That was three years ago, and he made two vows.  Revenge on Garderen Lamm, ensuring that no one would take his place, and that he’d try to bring his sister back as she didn’t cross over, instead pouring power into him, and joining him as his Eidolon (and he also has a few locks of her hair - enough for Resurrection - but still a major quest issue).

For most of the time when he hasn’t been serving as muse to Trinia or one of her friends, he’s been keeping body and soul together through being one of the stringers at Pilts Swastel’s Exemplary Excrables playhouse.  Never a lead, never much money.  But enough to keep body and soul together; his lodgings are in an actor’s garrett about 6’ long and 4’ wide just under a roof.  Not that he needs any more (or even spends much of his time there).

Six months ago he finally managed what he considers a major success towards bringing down Garderen Lamm.  Tarma Keth, one of Garaden’s more capable lieutenants, and the person that actually slit Marie’s throat, had been casting eyes towards Eel’s End and expanding in that direction.

 He spoke to (separately) Devargo Barvasi and Watch Sergeant Grau Soldado. The conversation was almost the same in both cases “If you deploy some men there tonight, Tarma will be in the arms of the watch having made a full confession by dawn.  My only price is that you see the Little Lamms are looked after well.”  He delivered, with Tarma claiming that she was being haunted by the ghost of a girl he’d once killed.  All above board and he delivered on his promises for a very low price.  But delivering a large success obviously as the result of an effective con, and not claiming much reward doesn’t tend to make you particularly well liked, however charming you are (and the more charming the less trusted in some ways).  Still, it’s enough to get an audience when and if he needs it.