Jae Florian

The patriarch of House Florian and the knight of Scarwood, Jae Florian is one of the minor nobles of Agrawel, his house exiled from Bregate and stripped of their title to Lagarde after the Conquest for betraying secrets to Ardal I. After befriending the party through the tourney, the trial as well as its aftermath, Jae was revealed to be the Grandmaster of the Yellow Rose. In spite of being at his mercy, the party managed to force Jae to realize the depth of his mistakes; he put himself at their mercy instead, stating that in this, he is dead as Grandmaster and alive instead as servant to the Dawn's Herald. Sir Florian warned the party that Ghislain Marcel would likely assume control of what remains of the organization, although Bloody Merrick, in spite of being in unfamiliar territory, usefully pointed out that Jae's claim to the title of Grandmaster could be used to create a schism against the forces aligned with the Iron Regent and the dark cabal that Jae's sorceress Quirelle had entrapped the nobleman into. However, Quirelle prepared a trap for Jae Florian, ensnaring the wayward Grandmaster as he meditated in the study while the Dawn's Herald were distracted by a trap she left in her quarters. Unable to make it in time to stop the retriever, Jae Florian was taken away before their eyes. Rescued from the forsaken Hall of Flies where Quirelle made her new lair, Jae Florian managed to gather what remained of the Yellow Rose in Agrawel, while those corrupted by demons regrouped with Master Ghislain Marcel. Bereft of his family blade, Jae feels himself half a man and has become obsessed with recapturing the fallen ruin of Lagarde, forgetting even his family waiting for him in Scarwood in the name of redeeming the Yellow Rose and his own name. At the end of the battle for Lagarde, Sir Jae Florian was captured and then turned to the blood of House Beithell, a Valennian cursed with the blood of the greatest Acheirian vampiric line. Riordan took the fallen knight away with him on his ship, having plans beyond the Dawn's Herald, while Quirelle was left to deal with his furious former friends.