![[VarlenPic.png]] # Varlen Taramond _Human Senior Priest | [[Tymora]] (Secretly [[Beshaba]]) | [[Yartar]]_ ## Summary A gentle, grandfatherly priest at the [[Happy Hall of Fortuitous Happenstance]] whose soft-spoken wisdom and compassionate counsel make him beloved among [[Tymora]]'s faithful. In truth, he's served [[Beshaba]] for twenty years, systematically corrupting the temple through ritual sabotage and misdirection while coordinating with [[Beregond]] and [[Vasira Valmyr]]. %% ## At a Glance Slight, elderly man with silver hair and kind blue eyes that twinkle with apparent warmth. Wears simple priestly vestments with garden soil under his fingernails from tending temple grounds. Always brewing tea for visitors. ## Personality Gently wise on the surface. Patient listener. Subtly manipulative. Sees [[Beregond]]'s arrival as divine confirmation that [[Yartar]]'s fall is imminent. ## Quote _"Sometimes, my child, even Lady Luck needs a rest. Perhaps these trials are merely... preparation for something greater?"_ ## Background Arrived at the temple forty years ago as an idealistic young priest. Over decades of watching the wealthy gamble away fortunes while the poor suffered, his faith soured. [[Beshaba]]'s whispers during a crisis of faith twenty years ago proved more comforting than [[Tymora]]'s capricious promises. Recently manipulated [[Coyle Marsden]]'s opposition to [[Theron Lockley]] on [[Beregond]]'s orders. ## Stats **Priest** (MM 348) with advantage on Deception checks related to religious matters. %%