Zentos Cyran

To all that know him, Zentos Cyran is a wealthy and
successful guild advocate who operates on behalf of numerous
independent commodity traders and gelt-speculators in the
commercia markets of Scintilla. A lean and austere figure in
his middle years with a shaven head and piercing grey eyes, he
is well respected and considered to be highly connected and
skilled at his trade. He makes his home in the most exclusive
mercantile district of Ambulon, where he conducts most of
his business. Unbeknownst to the wider world, however,
Cyran is a Servant of the Horned Darkness, and part of a
ruling cabal that seeks to rebuild the cult on Scintilla to its
former glory.
With a mind as cold and vicious as a steel-sprung
trap, Cyran’s particular gift is for intelligence gathering,
bribery, and blackmail. Additionally, he sidelines as both
a connection with Ambulon’s criminal underworld and
as a trouble shooter for the cult, although he rarely dirties
his own hands with murder. He is ably assisted (and
watched) by a daemonic familiar he knows as Malessence,
granted to him by Balphomael when he sold his soul.
Malessence, Dark Familiar
The powerful daemon familiar Malessence is a servitor creature
of Balphomael, conjured from the body of a young woman
who loved Cyran and who was sacrificed by him to his dark
lord. The daemon is bound to Cyran’s soul and serves him as
a bodyguard, spy, occasional assassin, and constant reminder
of his obligations. A shape shifter, she can take several forms,
but her preferred one is that of a pallid young woman. In this
human guise, she masquerades publicly as Cyran’s aide. The
resemblance of this last form to Cryran’s secret imaginings of
a daughter he and his murdered lover might have had together
is a deliberate and subtle barb on the daemon’s part.