Edwin Spruce: Difference between revisions

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Under his rule, Westport has become a hub for global trade, magical research, and luxury manufacturing. While nominally independent, the city remains culturally and economically entangled with both the Helsingfyrd Pact and Carcola, often serving as a neutral ground for negotiations between each. The city has prospered due to the mutual animosity between the two nations, serving as a trade gateway between the Republic and the Pact that allows merchants to skirt the onerous tariffs imposed by the Pact on the Republic, and vice versa.

Since his rise to complete <i>de facto</i> authority over the Free City of Westport, Spruce has become increasingly reclusive, appearing less often in public and spending more time in his private laboratory on personal projects. Rumors claim that he fears the insanity that inevitably grips all vampires in time, and is trying to avoid it.

==The Hollow Swallow Expedition==

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==Political Philosophy and Reputation==

Spruce is regarded by allies as a necessary moderate in a world of extremes. He is one of the few vampire nobles who speaks openly of adapting Pact traditions to changing times and has repeatedly employed mortals in positions of trust. His detractors see him as opportunistic, morally compromised, and ~~dangerously~~ meddlesome.

Spruce is regarded by allies as a necessary moderate in a world of extremes. He is one of the few vampire nobles who speaks openly of adapting Pact traditions to changing times and has repeatedly employed mortals in positions of trust. His detractors see him as opportunistic, morally compromised, and meddlesome in dangerous areas.

Though he lacks the ancestral power and territory of greater vampiric houses, and the powerful fervor of the growing [[Ochre Flame]] Edwin's combination of arcane insight, undead loyalists, and social flexibility makes him a political wildcard able and willing to play more powerful factions against one another for his own benefit, and that of the Free City of Westport.

~~Though he lacks the ancestral power~~ and ~~territory~~ of ~~greater houses,~~ Edwin~~'s combination~~ of ~~arcane insight, undead loyalists,~~ and ~~social flexibility makes~~ him ~~a political wildcard~~.

== Known Associates ==

* [[Practicant Marius]]: Former doctor of Edwin Spruce. Now acts as his majordomo and primary steward of his personal household.

* [[Oswald Spruce]]: Noble cousin and last remaining member of the Spruce cadet branch (besides Edwin Spruce himself). Sits on the [[Free City of Westport#Government|Inner Council of Westport]] and acts as a loyalist to him.

* [[Robert Rehobath|Robert Rehobath (Whiskey Bob)]]: Famed naval captain and veteran of the [[Republic of Carcola#Military|Carcolan Navy]], Whiskey Bob was hired out of retirement by Spruce to serve as captain of the Hollow Swallow expedition to the Lost Lands.

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 Under his rule, Westport has become a hub for global trade, magical research, and luxury manufacturing. While nominally independent, the city remains culturally and economically entangled with both the Helsingfyrd Pact and Carcola, often serving as a neutral ground for negotiations between each. The city has prospered due to the mutual animosity between the two nations, serving as a trade gateway between the Republic and the Pact that allows merchants to skirt the onerous tariffs imposed by the Pact on the Republic, and vice versa.
+Since his rise to complete <i>de facto</i> authority over the Free City of Westport, Spruce has become increasingly reclusive, appearing less often in public and spending more time in his private laboratory on personal projects. Rumors claim that he fears the insanity that inevitably grips all vampires in time, and is trying to avoid it.
 ==The Hollow Swallow Expedition==
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 ==Political Philosophy and Reputation==
-Spruce is regarded by allies as a necessary moderate in a world of extremes. He is one of the few vampire nobles who speaks openly of adapting Pact traditions to changing times and has repeatedly employed mortals in positions of trust. His detractors see him as opportunistic, morally compromised, and dangerously meddlesome.
+Spruce is regarded by allies as a necessary moderate in a world of extremes. He is one of the few vampire nobles who speaks openly of adapting Pact traditions to changing times and has repeatedly employed mortals in positions of trust. His detractors see him as opportunistic, morally compromised, and meddlesome in dangerous areas.
+Though he lacks the ancestral power and territory of greater vampiric houses, and the powerful fervor of the growing [[Ochre Flame]] Edwin's combination of arcane insight, undead loyalists, and social flexibility makes him a political wildcard able and willing to play more powerful factions against one another for his own benefit, and that of the Free City of Westport.
-Though he lacks the ancestral power and territory of greater houses, Edwin's combination of arcane insight, undead loyalists, and social flexibility makes him a political wildcard.
+== Known Associates ==
+* [[Practicant Marius]]: Former doctor of Edwin Spruce. Now acts as his majordomo and primary steward of his personal household.
+* [[Oswald Spruce]]: Noble cousin and last remaining member of the Spruce cadet branch (besides Edwin Spruce himself). Sits on the [[Free City of Westport#Government|Inner Council of Westport]] and acts as a loyalist to him.
+* [[Robert Rehobath|Robert Rehobath (Whiskey Bob)]]: Famed naval captain and veteran of the [[Republic of Carcola#Military|Carcolan Navy]], Whiskey Bob was hired out of retirement by Spruce to serve as captain of the Hollow Swallow expedition to the Lost Lands.