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Name Vanthos the Bookseller

If you walk down the Street of the Scholars, near the Great Library, in the city
 of Eisos, you may come across a small, fairly nondescript shop.  If you enter,
 you will be warmly greeted by the proprietor, who will invite to peruse one of
 the many books and scrolls located throughout the establishment.

This is Vanthos, and you are in his shop.  The family of Vanthos has owned it for
 generations, serving the library and university.  More than simple merchants, but
 less than scholars, as booksellers, they hold a special place in the city.  While
 he lacks noble title or official position, Vanthos can boast that his family 
serves the University.  And it is so.

If you go up the stairs of the shop, you will come to the second story, where 
Vanthos lives with his wife and the one child of his that is not yet grown and 
married.  A happy family, you would think, one at peace.  And you would be right.  
Of course, you will not be allowed up the stairs, for friendly as Vanthos is to 
his patrons, a man's home is his home, and not to be entered into by strangers.

If you were, instead, to go downstairs to the basement, you would see quite a 
different thing.  Oh, no doubt, much of what you see would not surprise you, for 
it is the thing you see in many a basement.  Extra inventory, books in need of 
binding or repair, a scribe's desk for copying, a safe in which Vanthos keeps the 
shop's valuables, a flask of date wine to keep Vanthos happy during his work.  
These are all things one might expect to find in a shop of this type.  

But if you were to cast aside the curtain at one end of the basement, unlock the 
padlocked door you find there, and enter the now open room, you would find 
something very different.  For Vanthos, like his father before him, is a 
demonologist, who has studied the magical arts of summoning demons and other 
creatures from the other planes.  Your heart would chill when you discovered 
this.  For, is not demonology forbidden, by the order of the Phaerach himself?  
Indeed, you would call for the guards.  But, you will not see the room.  No one 
but Vanthos sees the room and lives afterwards, his only guests there the 
sacrifices he uses to seal his dark pacts.

So buy your scroll and go.  Be not fooled by his broad grin, his ingratiating
manner.  It is all but a seeming.  Go and thank whatever gods you believe in that 
your business with Vanthos was on the ground floor, and not the basement.  


-Mortal Qualities-

+4 Scholarship-Vanthos, while not a member of the university himself, is a
 bookseller, and he is familiar with the works he sells.  He is literate, has a 
good base of knowledge, and knows how to research what he does not know.

+4 Persuasion Vanthos is a salesman, and a good one too.  He's talented at 
persuading others to do what he wants

+2 Perceptive  Vanthos is always aware of his surroundings.  He can read 
situations and people and find out what the angles are.

-Divine Qualities-

Supernatural Power: Magic: Demon Summoning +2 

Demonic Prince +2

Good Luck +2

Metals +2

-Foible-

[b]-2 Demon[//b]