Elias Houl
Physical Description: Gray haired, bearded, tall and with a severe expression, Elias Houl commands a presence that is undermined by his unwelcoming eyes. Their pale blue seems almost gray, and their expression wrought with time and thought. Frequently found in either vivid blues or muted grays, in either case with silver highlights or trims, he carries tomes, scrolls, wands, and a Rosario pendant of a foggy moon, or crescent with two clouds, which is the symbol of the Clergy of the Hidden Moon.
Public Knowledge: High Priest of Selune, Overseer of the Hidden Moon Clergy of Moonreach Keep, and second hand to May Celine, Elias Houl was a revered and respected preacher and diviner.
His loyalty to the Keep and to May Celine were once beyond question, though it was even then whispered that he privately disagreed with the High Priestess May Celine on two counts. First, with her adherence to the Cleimant Council's policy of open doors to all exiles, criminals, and ne'er-do-wells. Whispers claim that whereas May Celine championed reform, redemption, and repentance as cardinal Selunite virtues, Elias Houl harbored deep doubts about the merit of such attempts, and the potential dangers they might pose to the sacrosanct grounds of the Keep.
Second, those of religious background have heard further whispers that he also disagreed with May Celine's deep ties with the Church of Lathander, particularly those from Norwick. Such religious individuals have further heard mention that this was due to her involvement in an alliance between the Selunite and Lathanderite churches allegedly called the "Twilight Conclave."
More recently, Elias Houl has fallen from favour in the public eyes of Moonreach Keep. He is the prime suspect behind a series of abductions, as well as the blackening of moonstone deposits at the foundations of and well beneath the Keep. Following a recent attack of shadows and undead crawling forth from the dungeons below the Keep, he has vanished, presumably to escape the growing pressures of the Cleimant Council and investigations of their hired adventuring group the Locus Operandi.
Thematic Music:
Janus.
