Paavi Karjalainen

==Stats==
===Mark Tracker===
Marks: 15
Afflictions: Wound (Missing Eye), Wound (Hamstrung), Infamy title (Traitor to the Sun), Infamy Title (Man of no Banner)
===Advances:===
*Silver Tongue (Story, +1 Lying Bastard)
*Special Constable (Voting, +1 Governance)
*Papers of Commission (Voting, +1 Defence)
*Oathsworn Lord (Voting, +1 Governance)
==Background==
Paavi was born to the reasonably prestigious Karjalainen family, members of the lower nobility of the Fey Woods in the town of Longwood. All throughout his childhood Paavi developed a powerful sense of the double-dealing, truth-concealing, and barefaced-lying integral to court life, and he came to recognise the importance of politicking. It also fuelled his desire to once and for all sort out the rotten business of the Fey Woods, where the wrong word to the wrong person could land you in a world of hurt.
Over the years, he honed his skills and gradually worked to achieve an agreement between two powerful families. Working through intermediaries so as not to tip either side off, he arranged a marriage of a son of the Summer Court and a daughter of the Winter Court. The event itself is known only in hushed whispers as the Veiled Wedding, and was an absolute catastrophe. Paavi himself maintains that if the bride’s veil had been lifted just a minute later, it would have ended happily, but that’s just his speculation. As it was, the wedding resulted in three deaths, vast sums in property damage, and (in a surprising moment of solidarity) both the Summer and Winter Courts issuing death warrants for Paavi.
Fleeing his homeland, one could have forgiven Paavi for being downhearted, but even in exile he found ways to prosper. He worked for small baronial courts across the Dark Plains in his capacity as a negotiator and sometimes-diplomat, and when that failed, engaging in major frauds and confidence tricks, all the while honing his skills of disguise and twisting the truth.
Eventually, Paavi had exhausted all but the most outrageous possibilities of the Dark Plains, and headed for UNity City, certain that here at least were people who shared his desire to bringing peace and stability to the land. He inveigled himself into the civil service, working at this and that, ever hoping for the day he could return to a safe and united Fey Woods.
==Significant Relationships==