Father Top - The Cleric

Canton Topjon Dalger II, better known as Father Top, is a travelling "preacher without a congregation" serving Teythandraskahar, an elven god of art and beauty. Despite this patron, he lacks the smallest measure of cultural refinement, being crude, foul-mouthed, and shorted-tempered, though of a generally kindly disposition.

Father Top was the initial instigator of the adventure to Blackstone Keep, where he hopes to find a copy of the book On Flowers by the poet Shanliss Blackstone.

Father Top began his early career as a caravan guard, but his life changed when his caravan was forced to wait out the winter in the elven arboradel of Letholyn. While walking the streets there, he came upon the shop of a beautiful young (by elven standards) woman by the name of Sistranalle, a ceramist. Entranced, he began to find every excuse to spend time in her shop, pretending to browse, and speaking with her. In time, her lack of interest became clear but their friendship blossomed, and soon all pretense of shopping was dropped while he spent most of each day at her shop. It was an odd friendship--the crude, uncouth guardsman and the graceful, delicate artisan--but it was a powerful one. They spoke of many things, but above all Sistranalle spoke of the importance of art and beauty in life, and of her patron god Teythandraskahar, to whom the aesthetic was spiritual and beauty was sacred.

Soon, she began working

To be continued...