Matthias Abel

“Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell your fortune. Cross my palm with gold and it will certainly come to be. Cross my palm with iron and you won't live to see daybreak. I'm a gypsy. A rogue. Wicked as they come.”
-Matthias Abel
== History ==
Patriarch of the Abel family; elected King of the Gypsies. Intelligent and well-connected, he makes his enemies cautiously, and is owed favors by members of all twelve families.
== Personality ==
Perhaps in all New Arendur, there is no one save he who exhibits the quality of "cold iron" as a battle commander.
He is determined to bleed New Arendur dry, to measure his victory in kill counts, to bleed them of their will to fight. 
== War of the Philosopher-Kings ==
== After the War ==
As the elected King of the Gypsies, Abel is given a legendary short sword called Nomad, and one of the two Crowns of the Elven Sisters. The other Crown is lost. The two crowns belonged to two legendary wood elf sisters named Rosemonde and Solange, who united their people. What family they came from is unknown, but all the families claim descent from the sisters.
Matthias Abel had two sons, Martin and Jason, a grandson, Jean-Paul, and a daughter, Alys. His sons and grandson would die in the Shadow War. Shortly after the War of the Philosopher-Kings, his daughter Alys would marry an Arendurian soldier, Hugo Hawkins, much to her father's anger. He would refuse to appear at the wedding, and cut off contact from her. When she was lynched by the mob in Forester's Town, he would blame Hugo Hawkins. He has never met his granddaughter Millicent, though he has seen her from afar. She looks too much like his lost daughter to do anything other than cause him pain.Category:Wild Abyss
Category:Gypsy
Category:Elves
Category:King of the Gypsies
Category:Arendur
Category:Chaotic Neutral