[list]Name: Marius Panayi
Species/Race: Inburian
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Court Alignment: Red Wyvern
Role: Merchant and financial backer
Appearance: 5'10'' - with dark eyes, a short beard and carefully trimmed hair.
[hider][img]https://i.ibb.co/b5Y7SDS/marius-panayi.png[/img][/hider]
[/list]
[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
[list]
Skills: Cunning and good with money.
Weaknesses: Not a soldier - just a money man.
[/list]

[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory: The Payani family have been a wealthy family in the city of Inbur for several generations but it was under Artem Payani, Marius' grandfather, that  the Payani family rose to being amongst the wealthiest families in Inbur through the creation of the Payani Bank.

Marius grew up in luxury, but also with a strong sense of injustice as he watched his family shut out of positions of prestige and power that went to the less capable children of ennobled elgafolk.  As a young man, Marius became increasingly disenchanted and rebellious, though he was careful enough to keep his comments to private salons, while remaining an ostensibly good, loyal subject.

By the time he became head of the family six years ago, Marius had built a deep network of disaffected humans in the Eastern Empire although initially there was no attempt to orchestrate a revolt, Marius did manage to track down Dakis Hasikos, the legitimate heir to the Imperial throne.  When Dakis was executed for sedition after protesting the arrest of his older daughter too vociferously, Marius approached Ariana, Dakis' younger daughter, proposing that she become the figurehead for a revolt.

Ariana was angry at the arrest of her sister and death of her father and was more than happy to help.  Conveniently for Marius, it turned out that Ariana was, outside of the anger, quite malleable...[/list]