Lord Brent Kerloch

An artpiece depicting Lord Brent Kerloch's likeness, requested by Cassyla Westwater for use in hunting him.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Blue

Lord Brent Kerloch is a Gilnean-born nobleman and the owner of the now-abandoned Kerloch Estate in Gilneas City.

Of a relatively average height and build, Kerloch earned his moniker as the Lord of Salt and Pepper for a platitude of reasons - Initially and perhaps most obviously being his head of curly, slightly-wispy black and white hair, its colouration peppered and erratic. He has also been known to be politically ruthless and when something does not bend, he breaks it utterly as to salt the fields of his enemies, destroying their holdings and assets in such a way that they may not even be sold on for liquidation. He seems to prefer a simple rolled up white shirt with suspenders under a grey waistcoast with grey trousers and black shoes.

Initally nothing more than a fairly expectable Gilnean Lord’s son, Brent quickly came into his station upon his father’s death some years after the construction of the Greymane Wall. Quick to consolidate his father’s estate and assets, Kerloch’s mind became swiftly opportunistic, seeking to create certain safeguards to prevent hungry eyes and sharpened blades turning his way. From his servant’s staff, he eyed a young girl who he could shape into a considerable deterrent from his enemies, and so took her from her parents with the promise of an education, a career in politics and a greater opportunity in life than being a simple scullery maid. - A deception which the parents could not see through and so accepted.

With the young Cassyla in his grasp and in cohesion with his other political schemes and actions, Kerloch took to shaping the young servant’s daughter into his weapon - Alienating her completely from her parents and teaching her to steal, to sneak, to spy. Before Cassyla was even eleven, she had killed her first man for the Lord of Salt and Pepper. For every failure, misstep or blunder, he took to her flesh with one of his carving knives, leaving a permanent lesson and reminder in her skin to not do so again. With every lesson, every success and failure, he wrung and bent her into an assassin of some considerable reckoning.

When the wall came down during the Cataclysm, Kerloch was quick to act on his initiative and so Cassyla was offered to the Stormwind House of Nobles as a surveilance and subterfuge tool under the guise of a ‘gift’ to help keep a political level-playing-field by a kind nobleman of Gilneas. What Kerloch did not anticipate was to the degree of which his success would bear fruit for Cassyla, who excelled at this work and quickly became one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of the House of Nobles - An impartial, unbiased winnower of the garden who, if brought down by anyone, would bring the entire house down with her given her extensive paper-trail of hires, jobs and duties carried out by the vast majority of nobles, giving her a psuedo-immunity to consequence given she remained in the shadows at every opportunity.

Since his 'donation' of Cassyla Westwater to the House of Nobles, Kerloch has not been seen, and his current location and whereabouts are unknown.

Art by Lesser Ury.