Deston Cloudfang

Deston Cloudfang is a Whittengrovian politician and brother of the current Justiciar Hadrian Cloudfang.

## Description

Deston Cloudfang was elected to the station of Magistrate in 124WD, and made responsible for the day-to-day running on the northern part of the Pearl Ward district of the city. As such, he quickly found himself aligning his interests to that of the noble and otherwise wealthy residents of this section of the city, and as such was considered to be uncaring by some residents located elsewhere. This proved to be most epitomised during the aftermath of the tsunami that damaged the city in 131WD, in which Deston fought against using the houses of the nobility to house the displaced, worried that doing so would ruin his reputation with his noble constituents. Despite this, he did send relief to the refugees, paying for sufficient tents and basic supplies before suggested they instead be houses in market squares around the city.

Deston was encountered by a party in 132WD, who went to parley with the Magistrate at the behest of Nayeli Dahmythe to attempt to once again persuade him to open his constituency's manses to the displaced refugees. Using the ongoing Auburn Dusk festival as their justification, the party appealed to the sense of community and religious teachings through use of a grand theatrical appearance, resulting in houses being found for many of the refugees.

## History

Born to Verrell and Caren Cloudfang, Deston was brought into the world in the hands of a midwife, and spent much of his early childhood under the watchful eye of wet nurses, tutors and stewards of his family's house. Third of the Cloudfang children, after his elder brothers Molden and Hadrian, Deston's interactions with peers of his age were passing, most usually confined to formal occasions, at which Deston was often left to feel lesser than said peers, after all, his family was of new money. Verrell had made a small fortune in the purchase and sale of rare plants and herbs from the lands of the Aethelwald but a few years prior, and thus not considered amongst the actual nobility of the city, most of which had maintained a place within the city's history since shortly after its construction and expansion a century prior.

As a family, the Cloudfangs had found themselves thrust into a new and strange world of the aristocracy, and young Deston quickly learned several key lessons to maintaining himself amongst them. Through his beliefs, words and actions, Deston sought to mimic that of his peers, content enough to just blend in amongst them, rather than remain an obvious stand out in the crowd. Verrell and Caren continued to focus on their business ventures, Molden was inducted into the Academy of Erudition, Hadrian would soon ascend through the ranks of the Rosehelms to become their commander and from there the Justiciar of the Lotus Council, leaving Deston alone to tread water amongst the nobility - thus guiding his actions to come.

## Personality

As a result of his enjoyment of the finer things in life, Deston was often accused of being lazy, relying on the fact that most of his constituents were largely self-sufficient in terms of managing their properties and affairs, aided further still by the nature that many of their manses served as second homes and thus were only rarely occupied. Nonetheless, he used his status, as well as his connections to his more successful and famed brother Hadrian to position himself alongside the noble, and had managed to secure himself agreement for his marriage proposal to the daughter of Cwenhild Skelland, a wealthy merchant located within his constituency before she, and the entirety of her family, were killed in the Attack on the Pearl Ward in 132WD.

Deston himself was grievously wounded in the detonation, leaving him with a series of scars across his face, chest and arms as a result of debris thrown into the local vicinity of the storm.