Belac serves as the master of the Information Guild in Eslading and has long been a trusted friend and confidant of Hile. Within the city’s ruling council, where he sits alongside Hile and Balna, Belac is valued for his ability to recognize patterns before they harden into crises. He studies people as carefully as policy, tracking motives, alliances, and shifts in influence with quiet precision.
Belac’s strength lies in synthesis. He gathers fragments of information from disparate sources and assembles them into coherent insight. In a city shaped by trade, ambition, and competing interests, this makes him indispensable. His counsel often reframes debates, not by force, but by revealing consequences others have overlooked.
Yet Belac’s instincts favor openness over suspicion. He believes that trust, once extended, encourages honesty in return. This generosity has earned him loyalty, but it has also exposed him. He is quick to see promise in others and slow to assume malice, even when caution would serve him better. In a world where information is traded, hoarded, and weaponized, this tendency makes him vulnerable.
Belac approaches governance with the assumption that shared knowledge leads to better outcomes. He prefers transparency to secrecy and collaboration to coercion. These principles shape both his friendships and his leadership within the Guild. They also place him at risk in moments when restraint, rather than clarity, determines survival.
As threats emerge and alliances strain, Belac’s voice continues to carry weight. His challenge is not relevance or intelligence, but discernment. He must learn that insight alone does not protect against betrayal, and that even the most carefully gathered knowledge cannot guarantee the safety of those who wield it.