Rhys Wengler

"The sangomancer" — Gwyndinas's premier blood mage and a member of the Mage's Society, described by his office-nemesis Professor Wind Douglas as a "kind of goth-looking" red-robed figure. A person of interest in the Smiling Sam investigation: as the city's best blood mage, he is exactly the kind of caster who could exsanguinate victims and put blood to ritual use — though no proof ties him to the killings.

Session 15

• Revealed via Professor Wind Douglas's scrying to have left Gwyndinas days ago; he is camped a day or two outside the city, on a side road in the wilderness, traveling with reluctant allies — a blue-haired youth and an older salt-and-pepper, tan-skinned man, alongside what look like adventurers, guards, and other Mage's Society members.
• The party noted that killings continued after he left the city — but reasoned that bodies could be pre-killed and stored, so it does not clear him.
• A pursuable lead beyond the wall, overlapping with the Ponterford job and the Investigatorium's "gather records beyond the Palisade" task. Professor Wind Douglas asked the party to recover his stolen lunch and warn Wengler off.