Melestav Gabor

Family

Father: Kharmat, High Priest to the Temple of the Blue Sun, Templar Knight of the 2nd Degree, Gold Grade

Mother: Shustra, daughter of the desai (baron) of House Gabor

Offices and Titles

Templar Rank: Squire

Templar Degree & Grade: Acolyte, Copper Grade

Military Rank: Warrant Officer, 2nd Class

Governmental Position

• Ministry: Ministry of the Courts, Temples and Benefices

• Bureau: Bureau of Temples

• Department: Department of Antiquities

• Section: Records & Research

• Office: Office of Acquisitions

• Office Held: Liaison Officer to the Bureau of Intelligence with Special Assignment to the Dept. of Counterintelligence, Blue Orchid Section

Spells Known

1st) (2d4+4 = 10) calm animal

2nd) (2d3+3 = 9): augury

Background

After completing his primary temple studies and training at Mahavarithravana (The Dragon Temple), Melestav was assigned to the Royal Guard detachment at Passale, where he received individual training from the detachment commander. During his second year, he fell under the unorthodox tutelage of Savrala the River Priest, and perhaps for a time considered leaving the templarate to pursue becoming a River Priest himself.

After completing his postulancy, upon the influence of his father, Melestav served his candidacy at the Hall of Antiquities, located at the Palace of High Mages, serving his first year as a guard, and his second year clerking for the Records and Research Section under Madra the Reader.

After taking the Temple Oath and entering the novitiate, Melestav was assigned to his father's temple as a sinecure guard, allowing ample time for Melestav to continue his studies. Upon his father's approval, he was awarded one of the familial Salarite stones and took the full oath before the Master-General.

With his father's recommendation, Melestav returned to the Bureau of Temples...

Shauth Kharmatian

Though full-blooded Aphothian and born in that city, the young and handsome Shauth was able to achieve the templarate due to legal action from his father, who himself had been allowed to enter the Khormen templarate by Merek Maruk. Handsome, ambitious, and of a fierce intellect, Shauth resisted the animus of his fellow junior templars, who resented a foreign competitor. Against his father's wishes, Shauth entered the Ministry of the Revenue and Offices, where he rose quickly, benefiting from a complex scheme selling minor offices for which he was accused of corruption, but resisted the charges at court.

Achieving 1st Degree, he Shauth achieved an important deputy position under a senior templar in his ministry. Becoming boastful and aggressive to the chagrin of his reserved and learned father, Shauth became increasingly interested in the Council of Sages, the supreme legislative body of Khormen, most often called the "184." Specifically he became interested in the special templar unit that guarded, maintained and otherwise liaisoned with the 184, the Blue Orchid Guard, or the Silent Guard. Shauth rather obsessively followed the politics of the Secretary of the Blue Orchid Guard, and sought a post in her office, arguing this secretarial post to be a path to power. Shauth eventually achieved an official post under the Secretary, becoming the legislative liaison to his Ministry.

For a short time, Shauth's influence spread, as there a series of important legislation from the 185 not long after he assumed his position, especially concerning Revenue and Offices. At the summit of his power, Shauth became a powerbroker of sorts, relating details back to the 184, and enhancing the prestige of his office such that he met with the Deputy Minister and with the Khormen nobility at the Durbar.

Fate of Shauth Kharmatian

About a year ago Shauth began excusing himself from family functions and even some of his templar duties so that he might see to special and confidential business from the 184. Some of this business saw him to the Nagavrithra, to which he admitted to his younger brother Melestav upon inquiry, saying that one day, when the time was right, he would share with Melestav.

However, upon a sudden Shauth disappeared. Without explanation, an investigation was had, but nothing official was ever made clear, save for the determination that he had drowned. Using necromancy, Kharmat could not summon the spirit of his son, though when he used mightier magic to define what had happened to Shauth, elemental spirits returned with ambiguous answers. Kharmat was able to launch an internal investigation from the Temple regarding the manner of the death of his son, but this failed to produce concrete results.

Melestav Searches for His Brother

After his brother's disappearance, Melestav's own inquiries into the matter led him to discover that his brother had been researching the history of Khormen during the time of the rule of the King of Ghat, the so-called Bane of Anatta, researching the Department of Antiquities records for known temples and structures built there during that age.

Not long after learning this, by chance Melestav learned of the Department of Intelligence's interest in the Delta region, specifically an interest in temples...

Positioning himself as a liaison officer at the Department of Intelligence, soon enough Melestav was approached for his unique knowledge of these temples