Silas Rooke

Silas Rooke was an Istrian gunslinger and frequent associate of the Dawn's Herald. He famously journeyed with the Heroes of Blackbridge when they took down Kobold King Yiktaz and Lord Farquhar Thorne. When the party’s leads on the Infernal Pact began to run dry in Bregate, Silas left his allies with an apology, and vanished from all but the most prying of Noslith's eyes.

Malcolm Stenet told of how he journeyed with Silas at the Istrian's commission from Bregate, to Blackbridge, then the Ethereal Mountains, and then the Mithral Mines, to its depths where they fought a white dragon. There, Silas acquired what he needed so desperately in the confusion, and quickly left after paying Malcolm and his companions upon their return to Bregate. Vaielnor revealed that Silas is likely alive and in Agrawel, and that rumors point to him as being deeply involved in the war between the Yellow Rose and the Syndicate.

Silas Rooke was revealed to be the leader of the Blackpowder gang, prudently summoned by Markus to rescue the party after the Deacons devastated them near Tarquinn Farmstead. Reunited with his sister, Silas revealed that he would not return home with Lynette until they had slain the Patron, a mysterious shapechanger working with the Yellow Rose to manufacture the plagued cure in Agrawel and possibly even the Ashforge dwarves, long oppressed by the Andriet family, to seemingly later unleash it on Istria. Silas had obtained gunpowder laced with orichalcum shavings in an attempt to kill him that failed. Silas used his connections with the Syndicate to return the party to Agrawel and commented that he could be found at either the Blackpowder campsite in the abandoned Tarquinn land or the Blackpowder house in the 7th Ward.

Silas was killed in the explosion of the shadowy orb that destroyed Bellerose House, but Alennia Raerinal was able to reanimate him as a revenant driven to kill Becuriel. Silas nearly succeeded in fulfilling his end during the Eclipse but still remains with the Dawn's Herald. He was last seen departing with his sister into the Western Weald.