Facey

The captain of the Ponterford town guard — a loud-talking, bowl-cut man missing three of his top front teeth, nicknamed "Facey" for his "extremely observable face." Distinct from Sheriff Jeremiah Falconer (who sets bounties); Facey is the one who "tells people what signposts to wait at." Quietly sympathetic to the town's anti-crown streak. The local sad-song bard Luke Bart wrote a tune mocking his real name — which rhymes with "people" and "church steeple," suggesting it may be "Schnipple."

(Real name unconfirmed — "Facey" is a nickname; "Schnipple" is a best guess from the bard's rhyme. See Canon Questions.)

Session 35 (debut)

• Intercepted Thalia at the town pyre on her way to a date and led her down a back alley to speak privately.
• Delivered the town's gravest open secret: by Laewendas's decree (punishment for Ponterford's past rebellion) the town is forbidden children — any child born here is drowned and floated down the river. Word that one of the party is "a child" (Lash's bait disguise) could bring Laewendas's reprisal down on everyone, so he asks them to make the child disappear, turn it back into an adult, or send it out of town.
• Walked Thalia onward to the lumber mill for her date with Pretty Patrick, naming the bard "Facey" and "Luke Bart" along the way.

Session 37

• Real name corroborated. Laying out the town's power structure, the lawyer Edgar Wy names the head of the guard "Schniepel," tied with the sheriff Sheriff Jeremiah Falconer just below the Laewendas-installed mayor Belbermont — an independent source matching the bard's mocking rhyme for Facey's true name.