Flindo

Flindo is a Moonshadian merchant who may be found on Serpent Isle during.

Description
Flindo was the owner of Moonshade's Capessi Canton, a provisoner's store offer a variety of goods that Flindo regularly imported from the cities of Serpent Isle's mainland. A shrewd man with a penchant for collecting and spreading information, Flindo considered himself one of the more influential mundanes in the city of mages, although Ensorcio disdainfully dismissed him as a petty gossip whom the adepts had decided to humor.

Sometime prior to the Avatar's arrival on Serpent Isle, Flindo found himself at odds with Captain Hawk, a sailor who regularly conveyed passengers between the port near the Inn of the Sleeping Bull and the Isle of the Beyond. Hawk, who was in possession of the sole remaining ship on the mainland's coast, refused to set sail for Moonshade given the peril of the teleport storms, and Flindo was sorely put out at not being able to return to his homeland. Believing that the captain was postponing the journey in the hopes of extorting money from his passengers, Flindo sought the aid of the local Monitorian pikeman to coerce Hawk into setting sail. After getting into a heated confrontation with Hawk, he summoned the pikemen to intervene, having given them a considerable "donation" in exchange for their services. Much to his dismay, Hawk was jailed after striking the pikeman's captain, and the Monitorians thereafter leveled an impossibly steep fee for his release, hoping either that Flindo would pay to secure the sailor's return or that Hawk would offer them directions to the treasure he had amassed in his youth.

Unable to afford the pikemans' fee, Flindo found himself stranded for a time at the Sleeping Bull. Eventually, after the Avatar was able to amass sufficient funds for Hawk's release, he at long last made the return journey to Moonshade. Here, he continued in the operation of his business with his assistant Bucia and, as he had on the mainland, proved to be a fertile source of gossip about the various intrigues within the city of mages. In gratitude for the Avatar's assistance, he was able to secure an audience with the MageLord Filbercio for the hero.

Eventually, Flindo would number among the Moonshadians who were slain when Shamino the Anarch overtook the city following the release of the Banes of Chaos.

Trivia

 * Flindo's character portrait is based upon Joseph Lore (Chastain Dragon of the Ultima Dragons), an entrant in Origin's Immortality Contest.
 * An investigation of Flindo's home in Moonshade may result in an unpleasant surprise, as it contains an empty chest outfitted with a magical trap.
 * Should the Avatar discuss Flindo with Hawk at the Sleeping Bull while Flindo is present, the two men will get into a heated argument. Should Argus also be in the room, he will admonish them, explaining that he does not want to have to break up another fight.
 * Flindo will react differently to the Avatar depending on whether or not the hero been initiated as a Monitorian knight. Should Flindo believe the hero not to be a pikeman, he will speak candidly about the distrust other Serpent Islanders have for the order.
 * Flindo appears to have figured into the  cut plot material for Serpent Isle. There exists unused dialogue in the usecode in which Flindo explains to the hero the conditions of Moonshade as it is ruled by the possessed Shamino and in which Edrin relates an incident in which Hawk is murdered by Flindo.