### Details:

**Name**: Pell Grevane  
**Race**: [[Humans|Human]]  
**Age**: 62  
**Gender**: Male  
**Core personality**: Dry, weary, bureaucratic pragmatist; pretends to be neutral but plays both sides under the table.  
**Location**: [[Voxiu]], [[Obsidian Archives]]

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### Appearance:

- **Build & Stature:** Thin, slightly stooped, with ink-stained hands.
- **Hair:** White fringe, mostly bald on top.
- **Eyes:** Pale gray, watery; rarely makes direct eye contact.
- **Skin:** Sallow, aged with liver spots.
- **Apparel:** Simple archivist robes, always dusted in parchment flecks.
- **Distinguishing Features:** Smells faintly of parchment and pipe ash.

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### Voice & Speech:

- **Tone & Pitch:** Whispery, dry.
- **Mannerisms:** Adjusts spectacles constantly; clears his throat before every sentence.

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### Motivations & Goals:

- **Primary motivation:** Maintain the library’s stability (and his own comfort) at any cost.
- **Fears / Dangers:** Losing credibility with both Belters & Vexens, becoming a target.
- **Personal Secrets:** Secretly sells access to restricted archives and debt ledgers — often to Benton Brothers contacts.

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### Background:

- **Origin:** Lower-class Voxiu family; rose by dint of being “least offensive” to all parties.
- **History:** Quiet, unremarkable bureaucrat life punctuated by occasional “missing books” scandals.
- **Current Occupation:** Senior Archivist Administrator of the Obsidian Archives.

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### Associations:

- **Allegiances & Factions:** Nominally neutral, but dances between **[[Vexen Overview|Vexens]]** (funding his staff) and **[[Belter Overview|Belters]]** (to placate workers).
- **Allies & Friends:** A handful of junior scribes — especially those he can manipulate.
- **Rivals & Enemies:** Loud debaters like [[Yanna Blackreed - Obsidian Archives|Yanna Blackreed]], who call him corrupt, threaten his facade.
- **Contacts & Networks:** Discreet ties to **Benton Brothers Banking**.

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### Notes & Flavor

- Will _never_ outright lie; he omits and dodges instead.
- Smokes a crooked pipe; ashes often spill across manuscripts.