Who is the
Paparazzi Glantri?
“But what power do ye speak of, yer majestic graciousness? I ’ave no magic, no money, no rank. I am just a poor lowly wretch, ’o knows a li’l somethin’ zat I shudden’t...”
—Gaston du Lac of the Paparazzi Glantri
Beatriz Dominatore
Correspondent on Fashion and Assassinations
Liaison to the Caurenzans and New Kollanders
A statuesque beauty risen from the rubble of the The Ruined Principality, Signorina Beatriz often commands as much attention as the glitterati whom she trails. Her enchanting voice, charming manners, and cutting-edge fashions, have entranced many a brave Glantrian, and broken many a heart. Her past lovers have a habit of mysteriously dying (Suicide is most often the case.) or disappearing altogether, pining away in their fascination for the Paparazzi’s own belladonna.
Gaston du Lac
Correspondent on Secrets and Conspiracies
Liaison to the Kaelic and Boldavians
A true rogue, the slimy despicable Gaston du Lac has an evil eye, an wicked ear, and a crooked tongue for secrets and gossip. This dirty street rat can be found in most any alley or canal in the Principalities, except for those in his home of Nouvelle Averoigne (where he was suspected of selling magical secrets of the d’Ambrevilles to the necromancers of Klantyre and Boldavia). And although his unsavory appearance and atrocious manners are highly unwelcome in the fashionable salons of the elite, Gaston is unfortunately a very frequent visitor.
The Paparazzi keeps his company for things other than prestige, obviously.
Melisante Erewan
Correspondent on Magic and the Great School
Liaison to the Erewan
The Lady Melisante is not your typical Erewan elf. The strawberry-red hair speaks for itself!
Many people wonder why this elven lady frequents the glittering and glamorous social set, which is all too often snubbed by the members of her clan (not that miss them!). But even more people wonder how this frivolous and flighty socialite (who seems only concerned with who that handsome man is, or what gown she should wear to the next soirée) became connected to the Great School of Magic.
The Paparazzi knows the mysteries she keeps run deeper than the mysteries she discovers.
Kassar Krinagar
Correspondent on Art and Culture
Liaison to the Krondaharans
Having no formal education in wizardry, the half-brother of Prince Urmahid of Bramyra, Kassar Krinagar learned magic from the magicians, hakomons, jesters, and other entertainers of the Krondaharan courts. Eventually, Kassar found his true calling, not in arts of politics or magic, but in the cultural arts of entertainment and performance.
Kassar is invaluable to the Paparazzi for his coverage of the Glantrian culturati, whose colorful, magical, often scandalous lives, are more interesting and dramatic than their art.
Olga von Roegen
Correspondent on Politics and History
Liaison to the Aalbanese and the Flaemish
Very few people have met this particular lady of the Paparazzi. That is because she never leaves her home in Altendorf. That is because she never gets up from behind her desk. That is because she weighs over 300 pounds.
Besides her bottomless appetite for apple strudel, Olga has an insatiable hunger for historical facts and political trivia. She has a remarkable memory and remembers the minutest of details of anything she has read—which is a great amount, considering she does nothing else. A crew of magen (the only creatures that can tolerate her awful personality) bring her books and documents all day, as well as report to her the goings-on in nearby Aalban and Bergdhoven.
Noussoir du Marais
Correspondent on the Nobility
Liaison to the Sylaire and the Fenswick
The darling of the social set in the seasons of AC 1012, Noussoir is no stranger to the social habits of the Glantrian elite and nobility. Having risen from being merely the brother of the Prince of Morlay-Malinbois to being only the beau of the Princess of Fenswick, the charming, silver-tongued Noussoir has all the more occasion to see and be seen by Glantrian high society.
It is strange how people do not gossip about him gossiping about people. How could the Paparazzi pass up the chance to invite him to our little clique?
Felicidad de Fedorias
Correspondent on Romantic Affairs
Liaison to the Belcadizans and Alphatians
The notorious Felicidad de Fedorias has all too often been the subject of the Paparazzi’s attentions, for her scandalous faux pas and her many failed attempts at climbing the social ladder. (Indeed, the mere memory of that disastrous ball where a virulent pox turned the guests into werefrogs is still fresh in many minds, and still too tangible on many skins.)
In a final attempt to save her reputation, Felicidad offered her services to the Paparazzi, telling all hidden kisses and secret romances of Glantrian society. Being the former paramour of Lord Magantine Aendyr, a Glantrian ambassador to Alphatia, has also made Felicidad privy to the goings-on of the People Without a Principality.
