Mayor Jae Abber

Level 2 Human Mayor

"*And I... I... I heard how you protected innocent people here last night, and I thought, maybe, maybe you could do for us, what you did for them?"*

*-Jae Abber*

Jae Abber is an NPC from Extinction Curse. The mayor of the small town of Abberton, where the heroes begin their journey, Abber finds himself a desperate man in over his head when mysterious plights affecting his town prove too much to handle... and the only help he can find is the circus.

## Description

Mayor Abber is a bland human man in his fifties, with thinning brown hair and a short beard. He has a deep voice and often wears a wide-brimmed hat, a blue coat and a necklace of Iomedae around his neck.

## Personality

Mayor Abber means well, but he’s used to ordinary problems with mundane explanations. It's clear he loves Abberton, and seeing the strange issues facing it, like the inhospitable weather, the unusual seasons and the lack of rain, fills him with genuine worry. He appears to be a kindly person, attending the circus on its opening night, and is popular enough in the town that the other show-goers instinctively looked to him when Eriato Bati needed a volunteer from the crowd.

## Abilities

Abber is a politician, but not the big city type that lies and cheats to get what he wants. His family founded Abberton generations ago, and he's been the mayor for 20 years on that virtue. With no real competition, he acts more as a father figure to the town itself, trying to help each individual person where possible, and sometimes getting overwhelmed by this. He's a friendly, genuine person, which helps his case when he's trying to make requests.

## History

Mayor Abber is the present mayor of Abberton, following in the footsteps of his father, and his father before him. For his 20 years in office, Abber faced few issues. However, a while prior to the start of the campaign, Abber started to notice more and more problems with the local ecology. Rain came less and less often. Heatwaves kill one half of the harvest, frost killing the other. Wells drying up, low rivers and more lead to the town slowly becoming a dust bowl, and Abber was powerless to stop it. Two weeks before the campaign started, the problems intensified; animals attacks happened on the streets, increased anger and blame for the state of Abberton on its people from The Hermitage of Blessed Lightning, and several notable inhabitants such as The Hawftons, The Lindells and Sheriff Ralhain vanished. The mood in Abberton was growing increasingly distressed, and Abber had no idea how to fix it. When The Circus of Wayward Wonders requested some land they could perform on in Abberton, he was delighted, hoping this could be the distraction the town needed from the hardships it faces.

Abber attended the show, and was volunteered by the town to take part in the Big Number with Eriato Bati, who told the fortune of Abberton for him, involving brave heroes defeating strange reptilian monsters to save the day. The show was a colossal success, and he returned to his office... only to hear later that evening that the ringmaster, Myron Stendhal, had been murdered before the show, and that the circus had captured his killer, Nemmia Bramblecloak.

Abber returned early in the morning to arrest Nemmia and jail her for her crimes. At this point, he met with her captors, The Wandering Three, and revealed the desperate situation that he and the rest of Abberton were in. He asked for their help, knowing full well that other than the missing Sheriff, nobody else in Abberton would be able to fight much more than a rat. The Wandering Three accepted in exchange for Abber agreeing to visit the Hermitage of Blessed Lightning and secure them entry to discuss with Harlock, the Hermitage's leader.

When Abber visited The Hermitage of Blessed Lightning, he was greeted by the cult of demoniacs who had risen inside the monastery, and kidnapped. He was cruelly beaten and kept prisoner overnight, until the Wandering Three arrived and rescued him, sending him back home to Abberton.

Abber stayed in Abberton for the rest of the Wandering Three's adventure there, and organized a goodbye party for the circus as they left town that morning. Abber declared the Wandering Three "Abbertonians in perpetuity", and gifted them each a magic ring from the town's coffer to thank them for their aid.