Fulstan Schroder

History
Fulstan was once a traveling astronomer, selling his services to the various petty kinglets and dukes that make up the higher nobility in the Empire of Volkmar. The patronage he received funded his experiments into the occult. He dabbled in alchemy, theosophy and esoteric readings of the great philosophers, all the while playing the role of an upstanding subject of the Empire. He founded, joined and then betrayed a string of secret societies. He pitted minor nobles against each other, reaping the spoils of their libraries as they fought.

One can only live so long like that before getting caught. Fulstan still isn't clear which of his many sins turned Volkmar against him, but he is now a wanted man in most of the scattered kingdoms. He fled to the Kingdom of Valion, let his beard go grey and changed his wardrobe from fine silks to humble wool. He now makes a living selling oracles and horoscopes to Castow's growing and superstitious middle class.

Chapter 1: L'ombre sombre sur le Castow
Fulstan has received many warnings that something dire was coming through his horoscopes. Locked in his own self-pity, he ignored them. Now dark times are here, and Fulstan is caught in the middle. He has forged an alliance with the Church of All Saints - an act of mutual desperation - offering his services as an occultist. Perhaps this is a path to legitimacy and fortune again. Or perhaps it is a path to redemption.