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Cast · The Vistani

The Man in the Tent

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The big Vistani man at Tser Pool who called all five of us by name before we had given them, and poured Sirius a drink.

Still keeping Madam Eva's door at Tser Pool, as far as we know.

First met
Session 5
Last seen in
Session 6
Who
A large Vistani man who keeps the great tent at Tser Pool Encampment. He never told us his name.
Where
At Madam Eva's door.
Status
Alive. Friendly, and good with a wine jug.
First met
The last moment of Session 5.

We had just paid for our supper at the Vistani fire with Sirius's life story when a big man strode out of the great tent at the back of the camp and spoke to us as if we were late:

"What took you, Drusila, Fëanor, Lilli-grai, Osric, Sirius? You are expected."

None of us had told anyone at Tser Pool our names. He seemed lovely. So, someone pointed out, had the last man we thought seemed lovely.

Then he held the tent flap open for us. "Greetings, all. You are expected. Please enter this tent. Madam Eva is waiting." Inside were candles, black velvet on every surface, two decks of cards and an old woman who had been waiting for us for a long time. Sirius asked whether they might do this over wine, and the big man fetched a glass. "Drink all around." Sirius declared him his new best friend.

Everything he knew about us, it turned out, he knew from Madam Eva. What the cards said is on The Reading.

What we still don't know

  • How did he know our names? Answered, Session 6: Madam Eva knew them.
  • How long, then, has this camp known we were coming, and how?

Appears in

Also in Tser Pool Encampment