L. B. Stamh, by his full name Louis-Brayden Stamh, is an Isobeliner Chronicler who organizes information coming from Chroniclers all over Aelantir before it is sent to the headquarters in Anbenncóst; and an artificer following the philosophy of Brilliant Inventions. He is involved in Trollsbayer politics and a proeminent critic of both local institutions and the Ravelian Church.
Early life[]
Born in a wealthy Isobeliner family of Roilsardi origins, Louis-Brayden joined the Ravelian Church after his studies on artificery and applied theology, even publishing several essays in that field.
Fallout with the Ravelian Church[]
Modern developments in artificery-enhanced lenses led to an initially benign dispute regarding the true shape of the God Fragment which eventually made him believe that the Fragment was itself a feat of artificery, that could be reenacted using modern artificery.
This was considered a highly blasphemous claim, and he was struck off from the Church. Louis-Brayden considered this a betrayal of the Ravelian ideal of seeking knowledge and has critized the Church ever since for only teaching the truth promoting its political interests.
Self-imposed exile[]
The former rector left the Trollsbay after those events, and spent a year travelling through the Epednan Expanse, going as far as the city of Arganjuzorn. He decided to catalogue the legends of the rangers he met along his travels, finding in them common elements too recurrent to be random, an entire layer of truth hidden in plain sight. Eventually, he realized the same was true of the rumors in his native Trollsbay, and came back with a new motivation.
As a Chronicler[]
L. B. Stamh joined the Order of Chroniclers to document all the hidden truths of Aelantir, and especially the Trollsbay. Despite his best efforts, he failed the Field Certification multiple times, and often hires adventurers to follow the trail of various Trollsbayer legends. His publications include multiple works relating to artificery and history in addition of his more esoteric books. For some reason, the latter are surprisingly hard to find, which Louis-Brayden has always believed to be the work of some force trying to silence the truth.
He is considered, like Jahan síl Bennon or Jormar Steinar, as a controversial scholar.
Political involvement[]
His research made L. B. Stamh more nihilistic over the years. He came to question the relevance of many established structures, and joined Port Isobel's Anarchist Society in 1900, of which he is now a proeminent member. He often stated that the concepts behind Ravelianism or the Trollsbay Concord were "absolutely correct, but flawed by meek implementations".
Notable Works[]
- Of Gods and Gears, an essay - An essay on the applications of artificery to divine magic, both concrete and theoritical
- The Cube that makes the world spin - An essay on the history and nature of the God Fragment, oddly focusing on its shape
- The Path of Truth: a Path of Lies? - A book describing the history of the Ravelianism, and questioning the authority of the Ravelian Church
- Among the Landsharks - A book about his travels in the Expanse
- The True Trollsbay - A compendium of Trollsbayer urban legends, rural myths and other rumors exploring the truth behind them
- The Trollsbayer System for Beginners: A series in four volumes explaining the entire history and subtelties of Trollsbayer politics; the last volume theorizes the implementation of anarchism in the region as the true successor of the Concord's spirit
- Behind the Truth - A book exploring the applications of artificery to occultism