Name: Seoriol ap Rhys

Age: 43

Gender: Male

Nationality: Welsh immigrant

Appearance: Seoriol is just below average height for his time, and has a lean build from living an ascetic lifestyle, made all the more rugged since coming to the colonies.  his once dark hair has begun to turn grey, but his eyes are the same deep brown they ever were.

Biography: Seoriol was born to a family packed full of children, where they tended a farm not far from Abberffraw in northwestern Wales.  He was well-fed enough, but didn't receive much in the way of attention from his parents.  He sought a way to fill the void this left in his heart, and was very quickly taken with the church.  When he turned 15, the farm burned down, fortunately not taking any of his family.  This did, however, bring about the question of how everyone was going to eat.  both of his sisters were already married, and his older brother already worked for his own meal, but he and his two younger siblings (one sister and one brother) were still with his parents.  His father decided, that, like other children at the time, he and his brother were old enough to get a job.  His father's experience got him a job as a farm hand, and his brother's small size made him ideal for factory work, but Seoriol could not find employment.  Then their local priest suggested that the devout young man take up a position with the clergy.  After much training and long hours of studying in the candlelight, he was ordained as a priest.  He served in Abberffraw for many years before being appointed a vicar—a representative of the bishop—and shipped off to the colonies, to Salem, to serve those living there.  He has been in Salem for just over a decade, and in that time has become a respected member of the community.