Sir Caladanis

Montimof Caladanis.
His family has a small villa north of Chrailis on the Downslopes.
Has a definitive scare down the center of his face.
The party of Aja, Morvion, Urik, Tars, and Graykar found him under the mountain at the other Canton (journal entry 8). He claims he was there because when he was fleeing Chrailis he ran into Nerish't who promised to save him.
Graykar recognized him from wanted posters, so they take him prisoner along with 3 of his men and return him to the Chrailis authorities.


After his arrest, he sends the following letter to Urik.

“Greetings Sir Urik, I fear I no longer have any friends in this age after being stuck in the mountain for so long. I have no one else to turn to – neither family or friends - and no money to hire help. I know this is an odd and strange request. Mr. Urik, but as an honorable man, I beseech of you your help – you are actually the closest thing I have to an acquaintance. I am innocent of these charges and I need help proving my innocence. It has been so many years, the courts just wish to close the matter and put me away, no one cares to really investigate. To them, this matter was settled and judged long ago. In absentia, they call it. I fear for my life from a court too busy to care.”

Urik and Graykar's Investigations: In 1217 AC, roughly ten years ago, he was a small lord who spent his time aiding various orphanages in northern Chrailis. His full name is Montimorf Caladanis.
Years earlier, he was also a veteran of several engagements where gnolls had tried to sneak around the halfling lands to the east, trying to come at the southern halflings near the border of the Quirk Woods. His name does come up as having led a small counter raid from just within the Quirk Woods and forcing the first contingent of gnolls to halt their forward progress. In a second battle, the gnolls retreated right into a second contingent of gnolls and orcs. Once joined, they pushed forward again.
Sir Caladanis had already sent for help, so he took action and fortified his position against the oncoming raiders. Fighting them to a standstill for half a day, reinforcements from the Rangers finally arrived and harried the gnolls and orcs into full retreat.
The orcs, familiar with the land, fled along the border of the Quirk Woods and suffered severe casualties from the now angered halfling locals and the pursuing Rangers. Only a meager amount of the orcs made it back to their ships and flee. The ships did not have any visible insignia and had been hidden in edges of the jungle where it overgrew the lake. While likely Flayed Serpent clan, several hints indicated the orcs could have been slavers from Gore Reaver clan. If so, they were far from home.
As far as the gnolls, they fled into the Quirk Woods not knowing its full dangers. They were never heard from again. It is from these engagements and his family rank that he was knighted. From what Urik can tell, he never did anything of note with the title, preferring to stay in the lands north of Chrailis.
For years after he was knighted he aided local orphanages from running a few to seeking funds to keep them going. Many of the children in the orphanages he was associated with were cast-offs of society, being mostly humans, orcs, and half-orcs.
From what Urik and Graykar were able to determine, Sir Caladanis ran his three orphanages fairly and sternly. His view was the best way to raise the children was to train them in hard work, and work them hard he did. However, he also made sure they got a fair amount of the money made for their efforts. He also taught most of the children combat skills. What does seem evident is that he was not making a great profit at the expense of his children.
Now that they are looking, Urik has come across several Rangers who learned their first fighting skills in Caladanis’s orphanages. Of those that both Graykar and Urik talk to, they get a picture of a man who was strict, yet fair. They didn’t talk to a single Ranger who actually believed the charges against Sir Caladanis.
They are both reminded that even under Aja’s sneezing curse, Sir Caladanis insisted he had been framed by faulty business partners. As to the charges. He was accused of selling children, especially those of human and elvish descent, to orcish slave traders.