- Full Name: Tye Capral Hunter Focran
- Gender: M
- Profession: Woodsman
- Age in 1554: 44
- Birthplace: Weter
- Residence in 1554: Willough
Tye Focran is a deep-fog woodsman originally from Weter. He considers himself a noble man with a strong moral code, but he has proclivities and addictions that drive his darker acts.
Tye travels the fog collecting lumber and trade goods to market in Willough and elsewhere along the Weterbranch. As often as not, these goods are stolen from other merchants along the same route. In the winter, Focran flies to the gambling halls of Tenpin to waste his hard-earned money at Fouret and Fairmarket.
Tye controls a small network of spies in Willough, who keep him one step ahead of the Law. They also help him track the movements of his estranged daughter Delia Septer, an adventurer and explorer. Delia, age 22, now sails with The Moderne, a packet boat working the big bend in the Little Shally.
Tye is hatching a scheme to enlist his daughter in a riverboat heist which (he imagines) has the potential to reconcile them and lift both of them from their difficult lives. His plan is rob a criminal syndicate known as The Ghost Brothers, who themselves plan to hire The Moderne to transfer a cache of gold and rare minerals from Weld to Tenpin. This transfer is part of an even larger scheme to consolidate power for the Heru family in Tenpin.
Tye Focran knows very little of all this. He only knows about the shipment, and his plan is to rob the Moderne under cover of darkness, a scheme that will require him convince Delia to help. He has somehow convinced himself that she will join with him halfway through the heist, a delicate balancing act that can and will unravel in a hundred ways.
The scheme will fall apart, of course, and Tye will end up basically kidnapping his own daughter and dragging her along on an absurd series of adventures while they flee the murderous wrath of the Heru.
Comments