Eligos is a mage and fixer of Baton Rouge in Antiterra (1888), reached only by appointment, who buys any loot, trades in favors and knows the city’s hidden powers.

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Description

Via Madame Alexia Ting’s stationery shop and a mage linked to an “order of the silver twilight”, one gets a password, “Eligos”, and the address of a neoclassical house beside the Gothic cathedral. The Deep Ones came the morning after a masked ball; the house, he said, “sometimes turns into a Villa Venus”. To Antonia he hinted at a “secret invitation”; she replied: “resolving conflicts that way cost me a son.”

Role

He buys untouchable loot (nine thousand coins plus “a favor”), keeps vaults (holding the band’s Atlantean chest), has friends in government, and lent on credit his only teleport scroll. A gifted dragon heart went into a metal box.

He knows the city’s shadows: the southern Drow, who “take what they want”; a cathedral holding black mass under Bishop Thornwell; doppelganger tax collectors, which points to Doc Hawk; and of a murdered councilman, “they kill each other.” He holds lore of the age of the worms (wyrms, “electric worms”) and northern leads: dragons over Galgon Lake, a plot against the Treaty of Fort Belknap before the first of May, “the bearded man from Ohio”, and the philanthropist Wes Harrison of the Gray Towers, the gesta’s next destination.