Agis is the proprietor of the Traveler’s Fare Inn, a reliable stop along the northern trade road in Vidora, not far from Eslading. Merchants know him as efficient, fair with prices, and careful with comfort. Couriers trust his rooms. Guards linger longer than intended. Agis remembers names, faces, and habits with a precision that feels attentive rather than intrusive.
That attentiveness is his true craft.
Agis listens more than he speaks. He notices who arrives tired, who arrives armed, and who pretends not to be either. Conversations unfold around him as if unguarded. He asks simple questions. He offers small kindnesses. By the time guests realize they have said too much, they are already gone, and Agis is already filing the knowledge away.
Beneath the inn’s steady rhythm, Agis leads one of the Ravens’ underground cells. He does not recruit openly or command visibly. His authority moves through suggestion, timing, and selective absence. Messages pass through ledgers, supply requests, and chance encounters at the bar. Orders rarely look like orders, and loyalty is cultivated through usefulness rather than fear.
Agis excels because he never disrupts the surface he depends on. The inn remains neutral ground. Disputes are defused. Violence is discouraged, not out of morality, but because it draws attention. When action becomes necessary, it is swift, contained, and attributed elsewhere. The Ravens benefit from his restraint as much as his planning.
To those who know him only as an innkeeper, Agis is courteous and forgettable in the most comfortable way. To those who work against the Ravens, he is nearly invisible until consequences arrive. He survives by ensuring that no one can say with certainty when they first crossed him, or whether they ever truly did.
Agis does not threaten.
He waits.