A career GRE soldier who spent his youth standing before the barracks mirror imagining the victories and fame awaiting him. Passed over for promotion again and again, he was finally thanked for his years of devoted service and discharged — his connected subordinates promoted past him into prestige and wealth while he was exiled into civilian life without title, land or prospects.
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About this record: art and source provenance, discrepanciesDrawn north to Northfringe by recurring dreams of a circular seal — the same summons that reached every member of the party independently. The dismissal arrived on an ordinary Monday, sealed with the red-on-red mark of the council of Trayalon. Not one of his commanders came in person. He read it through in a booth in The Rubblefield and decided that morning to leave everything behind. Within a week it was clear his friends in arms would share a drink and a memory and nothing more — none would leave with him. He could not fault them; a week earlier he had been in their place. He signed on north as caravan guard and swapped job for job — through the northern cities, Blackblade territory, Harveston, the Parverean wastes and into the northern wilds. Then the dreams began: a feeling, an urge, an impulse north. By the time he reached Northfringe he was unsure whether they were blessing or curse, only that whoever sent them had a purpose — and that the purpose might be his big break. In Northfringe, Jameson Black — head of the town guard, and secretly a Dreamer — approaches him to help train the town militia. CONTINGENCY IN THE SOURCE: if Cromwell is killed, Aliana can imprint his brain onto one of the elvish automatons, effectively reincarnating him into an immortal body.