Sianovel Agency
Positioned between a bakery and a woodworker’s studio on a busy commercial block, the Sianovel Agency similarly features a broad front window garishly painted so as to attract the eye of the wandering shopper. While his neighbors sell food, clothing, or craft items, Sianovel offers something different: answers.
Unfulfilled by his career managing the Foreign Coin Exchange, Erdan Sianovel opened this cozy detective agency as a hobby business a few years ago, and has surprised even himself by bringing in a steady and lucrative stream of intriguing cases. Sianovel’s clients include nobles and knights, gladiators and artisans. Already fabulously wealthy, Sianovel often takes particularly intriguing cases regardless of the client’s ability to pay.
Sianovel is particularly adept at analyzing paperwork and organizing clues into a coherent order, so he gravitates toward cases that offer enticing and mysterious paper trails. His most consistent (and richest) client is Lady Seleenae, the owner of the Coin Exchange and one of Sianovel’s oldest friends and allies. In addition to applying his investigative acumen to generally further his patron’s interest, he also operates a side business acquiring antiquities on her behalf. Sianovel scrupulously avoids trading in stolen or exploited material.
The shop opens into a sitting room bedecked with a comfortable couch and a low table featuring a snack plate and the latest issues of several Absalom broadsheets. A cheerful halfling secretary named Chirrup Turley controls access to Sianovel’s private back office. The cozy office was formerly a tobacconist shop, and a pleasant aroma still lingers within.
Unfulfilled by his career managing the Foreign Coin Exchange, Erdan Sianovel opened this cozy detective agency as a hobby business a few years ago, and has surprised even himself by bringing in a steady and lucrative stream of intriguing cases. Sianovel’s clients include nobles and knights, gladiators and artisans. Already fabulously wealthy, Sianovel often takes particularly intriguing cases regardless of the client’s ability to pay.
Sianovel is particularly adept at analyzing paperwork and organizing clues into a coherent order, so he gravitates toward cases that offer enticing and mysterious paper trails. His most consistent (and richest) client is Lady Seleenae, the owner of the Coin Exchange and one of Sianovel’s oldest friends and allies. In addition to applying his investigative acumen to generally further his patron’s interest, he also operates a side business acquiring antiquities on her behalf. Sianovel scrupulously avoids trading in stolen or exploited material.
The shop opens into a sitting room bedecked with a comfortable couch and a low table featuring a snack plate and the latest issues of several Absalom broadsheets. A cheerful halfling secretary named Chirrup Turley controls access to Sianovel’s private back office. The cozy office was formerly a tobacconist shop, and a pleasant aroma still lingers within.
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