# Haddon — "Scribe" Haddon, the Scholar

**Look:** Neat grey beard, spectacles, scholar's robe, ink-stained fingers; stiff left hand and black branching scars show under difficult magic.
**Vibe:** Fussy, helpful academic; compulsively explains true theory while lying about what the theory was used to do.

- Best liar at the cult table; prepared the group's alibi before Orenn's body was cold
- Met Dace as an unnamed intermediary and recorded the Harath dossier in his ciphered journal
- Knows Xarrul is fiendish and the Order summoned it; claims it remains bound and the House caused the failure
- Rebinding: holds the true-name station; Dalla and Rennt must hold the other two
- If one station ends without a completed handoff, each other active ritualist takes 2d6 psychic damage and makes DC 14 CON
- Xarrul attacks his resolve with Bren and his abandoned maxim: **the living weight comes first**
- Reserve Oil of Etherealness in his ritual case

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| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA | AC | HP | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | +2 | +1 | +4 | +1 | +2 | 12 | 38 | 30 ft. |

**Saves/skills:** INT +7, WIS +4; Arcana/History/Investigation +7, Deception/Persuasion +5
**Spellcasting:** 5th level, INT; DC 15, +7 spell attack.
**Slots:** 1st 4, 2nd 3, 3rd 2.

**Spells**

- **Cantrips:** *mage hand, prestidigitation, minor illusion, fire bolt*
- **1st:** *detect magic, shield, charm person, disguise self*
- **2nd:** *detect thoughts, misty step, suggestion*
- **3rd:** *counterspell, dispel magic*

**Pressure Points**

- Bren calling him **Professor** cracks his composure; he abandoned his finest student to Skein.
- Fifteen years ago he entered a collapsing circle to save Orenn. Orenn's faith in that old courage was the last restraint on him.

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