Belongs to ACADEMIA
ACADEMY RUMORS:
Name: Barnaby Sniffer
Department: Intelligence & Information Security (Academia’s Attic)
Known for: Knowing everything while being nowhere.
Warning: Your secrets are already filed.
Last recorded sighting: Inhabiting Sir Gourden’s pumpkin during the Autumn Festival (disputed; possibly contraband beer from the West Lands).
Current status: Everywhere and nowhere.
Developed by Crimson Alchemist , Formula available: Basic
KNOWN BACKGROUND:
Very little is known about Barnaby Sniffer. His archives are empty, which is only logical. After all, how would a proper spy keep a file on himself?
What is certain: he never leaves the attic spaces of Academia. How he maintains detailed knowledge of every soul in the Known World remains a mystery. Witnesses claim to have spotted him inhabiting Sir Gourden’s head during the Autumn Festival, though skeptics dismiss this as a side effect of contraband beer from the West Lands—whose alchemists are notorious charlatans.
What everyone doesn’t know is this: no dark deal passes without Barnaby’s approval (and appropriate payment, of course). His rats are everywhere—every port, every ship, every attic—watching and reporting. Should a bandit attempt treachery, a conveniently gnawed mast or beam tends to solve the problem swiftly.
Yet Barnaby is not without nobility. He has published portions of his archive, making them accessible to all—a gesture of uncommon generosity. The remainder, however, is known only to himself, Portia Thistle, and Cornelius the Secret Keeper. All three remain impenetrable.
The gossips suffer terribly for it.