Whatever happened to Chosen Lord Tithian Kassigarh? I know they had to stored but still I want to know more about him.
Lord Chancellor Tithian, Usurer of Chosen House Kassigarh. Born to Finneal and Tithia Kassigarh, trained as an associate under his uncle Maurus to collect from delinquent debtors and keep the coin flowing. Maurus, who was Uaptal by birth, perished of "natural illness" during a period of strained relations between Kassigarh and the now-dead House Uaptal.
In the decade following the Battle of Tyn Dashra and years of societal upheaval in Tuluk, Tithian had worked his way into a position to negotiate public affairs for House Kassigarh. Tithian's parents represented opposing factions within the House and Shadow Artists had just wiped out the Uaptal.
Tithian was really disgustingly rich and had access to more money than most characters in the game ever do, even other nobles. He tried to run a loan service for other PCs in Tuluk and hired commoners to assist with this and also collect on those debts by any means necessary. He secured signed letters of marque from at least one-higher ranked templar granting his agents authority to recover Kassigarh property from debtors by force if necessary but it turned out most of his agents never lasted very long.
Tithian pivoted to the brewing war rumblings between Allanak and Tuluk and thought to ingratiate himself with the Templars and the Legion with his wealth. Originally he wanted to buy a commission within the Sun Legion, granting him a technically official if somewhat insubstantial military rank and position, because it seemed fun and in-character for him to barge into a military camp like a jumped-up tourist who can't even grasp the concept of being told no, in his priceless and one-of-a-kind golden armor that would never see a single round of real combat.
He didn't get clanned Legion but he was awarded the honorary rank of Chancellor after a considerable donation to the Sun Legion and this set off a trend as both PC and NPC nobles scrambled to purchase "commissions" to show their support for the war effort.
If I recall, part of the reason I stored Tithian was because when Raleris died, everyone playing in Tuluk got it into their heads that Tithian had had him assassinated. It got really hard to play the character the way I was hoping at that point, because nobody was willing to associate with Tithian very much and any PCs he hired usually ended up dead within days because everyone loved Raleris.
It was a bummer at the time but in retrospect it's exceptionally funny because the only malicious action Tithian ever really perpetrated in-game was a really horrific loan deal he foisted on House Dasari to rebuild their cotton fields. It was worded in a way such that additional fees and fines were levied against Dasari in almost every possible scenario, including sizable fees to be levied in the event that Dasari presents the full value of the debt at once in an attempt to buy out.
I think I stored not too long after this - I was getting increasingly frustrated as a player with the fact that other PCs were so determined that Tithian was carrying out malicious and elaborate schemes against them that it became impossible to actually carry out my (still a little malicious) elaborate schemes. He remains one of my favorite characters I've had the opportunity to play and I suspect the Deeply Cursed Bathtub he had delivered to Faithful Lord Yasir Lyksae no less than half a dozen times only to have it returned with scorn is floating around Tuluk somewhere today.
