Bane Sarreas

Bane Sarreas is a member of the Imperum Crescent Council and Head of the Funeral Rights Association. Upon introduction (Sx20), he was the one that Queen Ione immediately suspected of foul play in regards to King Eugammon's illness. His links to Hades made him a target of many bad rumours, and had a reputation of being intimidating.
Despite these prejudices, he holds a strong position of power within the Imperum Crescent Council, most noteworthily while he speaks during council meetings. It's also noted that he has held leadership of the Funeral Rights Association for around fifty years: the longest anyone has been in the Head position, as the Association is seemingly cutthroat about positions — often quite literally.
== In Campaign ==
The first time they met Bane was when traversing the corridors of the Palace while investigating, he simply walked past them. They did not interact. When Leoven used her divine sense to try and discover his alignment, he gave off the weak aura of an evil alignment, though leaning towards neutral. During this time Leoven had used it near his room and sensed a different neutral-aligned aura inside his room, leading to some suspicion as the party were unsure who this other person in his room was (Sx20).
The next time was during a council meeting where he showed his aptitude for controlling the other members of the council. He seemed to rarely speak during the meeting, but when he did the whole council seemed to have to pay attention. It seemed that Eltin Burrowheart also held some resentment to Bane (Sx20). For the remainder of the investigation, the party discounted him as a viable suspect (possibly as he seemed too obvious).
Their final real interaction with Bane was Oto's conversation with him after he attempted to channel the will of Hephaestus. During this meeting Oto, amanages to draw out where his additional recorded murders had taken place as it was revealed he had travelled to the Funeral Rights Association's mines where they dig for celestial bronze and slain most of it's occupants. He seemed genuinely disgusted by Oto, ready to punish him in some way, even after Oto explaining the circumstance. What seems to tip him into letting Oto go was his adopted son, Quartor returning, He seems to have a very close relationship with his son — already getting him to somewhere safer than the palace and Artemis Cove (Sx30).