Francis

Old historian of Greenrest. Proprietor of The Shop of Books and Mysterious Histories, antiquarian bookstore. Lowkey conduit fanboy. Very old. Sold homeboy Durnen a tablet. Knows a little about the dragonpriests, but not a lot. Set gave him the apple slice from the Tree of Life and Death in secret.

Description
An old (human?) man who runs a book store.

Background
It seems like Francis has been in Greenrest for some time, building his stable of books and local mysteries and/or artefacts. His knowledge about the conduits appears to be from more of a folklore perspective, though at one point he did sell Durnen one of the tablets relating to them.

"With You It's Never Good Enough" (1x6)
The party first heard of Francis at the Green Mug. Later, they visited him at his shop of books and mysterious histories, where he hobbled around and talked to them about the conduits, specifically their relationship to the dragonpriests, who had wanted to use them to “unite the gods Bahamut and Tiamat and bring them into the mortal realms.” Francis also said that cults had been trying to summon a new god to control life and death itself. Francis found the Bag with No Holes hilarious, like he'd heard of it before.

"Let Your Waves Crash Down on Me" (1x7)
Set left the apple slice he got from the Tree of Life and Death with Francis, let him know that the healing apples were no longer going to be coming, and then ran away. Francis looked sad and like he wanted to say something more, but Set was fast.

"Got a Sunset in My Veins" (1x14)
Most of the party (except Set) went off to see Francis again and discovered his selling one of the tablets to Durnen a while back. They also learned about the locus' importance to the six conduits from him as well.

"I Used to be Love Drunk But Now I'm Hungover" (1x37)
Francis (here "Frances") signed up on the Green Mug beer battle team versus the party. Francis also seemed markedly different from the last time the party had encountered him, acting like a man much younger than his actual age though still looking very old. Set felt horrible about this.

Set
Tried to do something nice and now is watching it come back to bite him.