Jozef B. Sef

In the year 1420, Jozef B. Sef was one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in Avia - specializing in buying properties that were deemed failures by previous owners and government bodies in charge. He would then purchase them for cheap, rebuild them, and sell them at much higher values. His most heinous scheme would be the one that would lead to his end when he tried to conjure undead to terrorize the slums of Corvus in order to get Mayor Freddy Sunsmile to sell him the area at a cheap cost.

## Appearance and Personality

Jozef tended to wear elegant and gaudy robes of lavender and black silk. Accustomed to danger, he always had a dagger and a wand at the ready. He has gaunt pale skin and jet black, long hair. Jozef tended to be overconfident in his abilities and his wealth. He preferred to bribe obstacles out of the way or hire others to inconvenience said obstacles into bending his way.

## History

### A Missing Tome and a Rising Star

Calos hired the party to investigate his home for clues about a break-in that resulted in his tome being stolen. The party had found hints of Coleen's past as a necromancer and signs of Calos' alarm wards being dispelled by magic. Around this time, news of undead attacks in the slums as well as Jozef B. Sef's promises to rennovate the area in the stead of the "incompotent Corvus authorites." The party had begun to suspect that he had more involvement with the attacks than he let on.

### A Botched Break-In

With the guild suspecting Jozef for his involvement in the undead attacks, three guild members - Jeezls, Copperskin, and Corrine - tried their own plan to infiltrate his manor and search for evidence. However, their plans clashed and they all wound up caught by Jozef. He manipulated the media into painting this as a deliberate hit job by Raven's Mark and had lawyers pressure Marko into taking action against the three who broke into his home. This resulted in Marko kicking the three out from the guild. Upset with this, Dhivara and Ursa Mari-Rose left the guild as well - leaving Srinshe (as Aidan) as the one active member of the guild.

### Confessions of a Banshee

Srinshe had caught wind of a job involving a dance troupe instructor having a being haunting his dancers. Aidan gathered Jeezls, Ursa, and Corinne to confront this being. The party found that a banshee was haunting the tenement where the instructor kept his dancers. The banshee was a dancer named Kala - a stronghearted girl who tried to protest the conditions they lived and worked in. To break her, the troupe master ambushed her with his thugs. Broken and defeated, Kala had thrown herself down a well but somehow had returned as a banshee. The party empathized with Kala and fulfilled her request to bring the troupe master to her. When they tried to convince him to come with them, he was angered at their unwillingness to "just kill the bitch." The confrontation became a fight between the party and his thugs. After watching his thugs get thoroughly trounced by the party, the troupe master begged for his life - promising to come with as long as the party kept him safe from harm. The party brought the troupe master to Kala. Kala and the party intimidated the troupe master into confessing his crimes and apologizing. Overwhelming rage had fueled Kala as she wrapped her hands around the troupe master's neck. The party tried to calm her and assure her that they can bring the man to justice, but their words fell on deaf ears. When the troupe master breathed his last, clarity had returned to Kala's mind and her form was starting to disappear. In that moment, Kala had remembered her moment of death. She had thrown herself down an abandoned well in the slums but she did not die immediately. Her last vision was black tendrils coming from the walls of the well and enveloping her. Some digging for information about this well revealed that it was closed after workers digging the tunnel were attacked by zombies after the dig hit into a crypt. The tunnel was collapsed and the project discontinued, costing its owner at the time - Lord Jozef B. Sef - a great deal of money.

### Uncovering the Crypt and the Con

Srinshe, Jeezls, Corinne, Copperskin and Ursa went down the well, finding Kala's dead body and some rocks that could be moved with some force. They unearthed an entrance into an area that looked like a crypt, where they were attacked by an ogre zombie and some zombies. After fighting through the zombies, the path went in two directions - one path leading into the crypt and the other leading out in another direction. The party went to the other exit tunnel, finding themselves at the back of a manor - enclosed by a tacky art piece - when they returned to the surface. Jeezls, Copperskin, and Corinne recognized the manor immediately - it was Sef's manor. As their revelation dawned on them, Lord Sef emerged, raising dead to fight for him as he touted his art piece: a soundproof, opaque piece that will ensure their painful deaths are not heard. Using Calos' grimoire, Sef's enhanced necromantic abilities along with his minions provided a difficult challenge for our party. With Aidan, Copper and Ursa taking down his minions as Jeezls and Corinne fired at Sef, their teamwork culminated in a climatic headshot with a blank round from Corinne - knocking out Sef and allowing the party to gather the evidence to expose his evil deeds. They gathered evidence from both his private chambers and the deeper rooms of the crypt he used. In light of these crimes, Sef's wealth was audited. Most of his holdings were seized by respective kingdoms they were in and he was sentenced to death by public stoning in Corvus' central square. His properties were to be sold on the market - though Mayor Sunsmile hinted at better deals for Raven's Mark members out of gratitude.

## Powers and Abilities

### Capable Necromancer

Although his powers were amplified when he acquired Calos' tome and accessed Coleen's former study, both of these things would have been useless to anyone without proper knowledge of necromancy. It is uncertain just how powerful he was without the tome as members of Raven's Mark had only fought him with the tome in hand.

### Wealth and Status

He had spent years bribing Avian officials and making a fortune off of flipping the worst of Avia's properties. With a vast network and the funds needed to influence individuals, he was even capable of having officials pressure Marko into firing three of the six active members of Raven's Mark - causing two others to leave as a result of said firings. His connections even spanned outside of Avia as it was Jend who gave Jozef clues about the catacombs beneath Corvus.