Louie VanDern

### Location

Sapitto, Bolucea (Formerly),Solitary Confinement in a cell at the Bolucean National Land-brig

### Skills

Sweet-talking, Theft, Light on his feet, Grand Heists, Smuggling, Conversation

### Features

Tall, spritely man. Large sideburns. Fiery orange hair. Hairy body. Average Build.

### Likes

Money, Liars, Red-gill, Rey Heron, Expensive Clothing, Helping the Poor

### Dislikes

The Rich, Oppression, Bolucean Aristocracy, Lawmen, Virgil Vespa,

### Debut

The Piracy Investigation

> Even in a place like this, it seems a bit odd you'd have yer weapons ready...
>
> - Louie VanDern

## Description

**Louie VanDern** was a major character and target of The Piracy Investigation. The party was tasked with bringing him in, dead or alive. His actions of smuggling goods into poorer towns like Sapitto gained him the ire of the Bolucean Aristocracy, which set a bounty of 400,000 Drena on him.

His real name is **Louie VanaDern**. He expressed annoyance at the fact that the wanted posters had a spelling error, resulting in his name being wrong. This misspelling also prevented Cearulis, an Astrologian and fortune teller, from helping the party locate him, as she could only locate people by the true name they identify themselves with.

Many characters knew and were personally helped by Louie's efforts. Some of these characters include: Rey Heron, Listgarm Ingrad, Rider, Red-gill, and Symunn Vettle. He would source and secure cargo for them and sell it to them while vastly undercutting market price in order to upset the economy of Bolucea, and redistribute wealth by providing low-end stores with goods. His escapades drew not only the ire of the Aristocracy, but also of that of the local lawmen, including one Virgil Vespa.

During The Piracy Investigation, he is rather elusive and only encountered near or at the end of the story. He was encountered by the party when they were first led to him by Red-gill. They were only able to find him after tracking multiple leads. The party was initially distant and a bit confused by him, before he sensed their hostility toward him. He attempted to coerce them into helping both him and Red-gill raid the mansion of local Aristocrat, Jarolt Whist. The group shot down the idea when he explained that he wasn't doing it, "for the money" and he would let them keep the Drena within the vault of the Mansion.

The party felt something was off and secretly decided to launch their attack on him. Red-gill lept in front of Louie in an attempt to protect him. Mud turned Red-gill into a meaty paste with his flurry of sharp swipes. Fretti, a fellow pirate, swung his blade at Louie and nearly swiped his chest to ribbons. After weaving his way through their advance, he began to make a run for it. Mud didn't let him finish his attempt however, as he immediately threw his pet Gwoll at him as hard as he could, the poor thing landing square in his mouth. The gwoll panicked and began scratching at the inside of Louie's mouth, ripping out his tongue and incapacitating him.

After he collapsed the party tossed him on the back of Rey Heron's old DireBoar, having just been gifted to Mud, Jibbers. The gang brought him in and collected the 400,000 Drena grants from the State Office there.

Due to his importance to the downtrodden and poorer classes of Bolucea, his imprisonment was the catalyst that started the uprising of the Cerris Worker's Party, and the beginning of the Peninsula War, a Civil War between Bolucea and the newly founded Cerris Republic.

He's currently being held as a Political Prisoner near the capital of Bolucea in the Bolucean National Land-brig.

### Physical Appearance

Louie is a taller man. He has a slightly chunkier than average build, with wide shoulders and small, womanly hands. His hair is a bright orange and and he keeps it hidden under a brimmed hat. The hair runs down his face and terminates in two large sideburns. He has proportionally large eyebrows and a wide nose. He usually likes to keep his clothing clean and well-groomed. He wears fanciful dress-clothing and has a jacket with his initials tackily embroidered on the back. He speaks with a Northern Bolucean accent.

## Trivia

* Annabelle wrote the campaign before she ever even actually wrote anything about Louie other than his name.
	+ The fact he actually turned out to be a robin-hood esque character was a complete afterthought.
* His accent being "Northern Bolucean" is meant to sound Irish in practice.
* If he hadn't have been captured or killed, the homeland of Cerris wouldn't have ever existed.