Lord Corren Asheville

Lord Corren is a wealthy nobleman who owns a large swath of land outside of Zentawen and whos family is the sanctioned political representative of Brossom be oversees the city at large as well as the sorroundin valleys that hold small settlements and caves that hold precious minerals and metals. Brossom is of religous and spiritual significance as well as being key to the livestock trade.   Lord Corren is somewhat of a populist pretender, he has been angling for a more sunstantial role in court despite not having the welth and controlling a city cosidered to be by many as superfluous and useless. He is howeververy well connected to the powers of the common person and is able to speak in their rhetoric, he makes people feel seen and heard but only when it serves his own needs.   He initially attempts to court Princess Mauricia who wanted to marry him to secure his land and he wanted to embolden his status. But after their proposal is pushed back by King Arvid he begins a different tactic of publically outcrying his policies as cruel and unjust. He angles in on the fears of the common person their concerns over rumors of monsters attacking them, the fear of the Brotherhood ransacking their homes and kidnapping their loved ones, and the ever elusive threat of sorcery.    The outcry is partly to pressure Avrid into agreeing to the marriage with Mauricia to placate the publc. But also because he would like to carve out the throne for himself and knows that with enough public outcry King Avrid may just be deposed. For the people of Gand they begin to see him as a savior but in reality he is also working with the Brotherhood of Tarn to secure power crystals to power machinery to tap the mines, using the disenfranchised people living in Brossoms ruined temples as a trading stock. He even goes so far as to have the brotherhood stage an attack on his people to scare them.   He has know Mauricia for a long time as they both attended the College of Wintrow and simply does not care for her, seeing her as a tool. In many ways he looks down on her; where he is clever, charismatic and theatrical she is often seen as cold and pragmatic to a fault. With the launch of his new campaign he goes out of his way to demean her and humilliate her before the The Royal Court  and smearing her image to the public, all with the intention of breaking her down, ruining her reputation and trapping her to have no other option than his hand in marriage.   Lord Corren is effective and clever, he knows how peole tick and how to make them tick for him but he lacks substance of chracter and makes promises he can’t keep.