Tycho

The healer of Eldrich the Elder's caravan — and, per Eldrich, a transparently bad Varian spy sent to keep an eye on him (or on Dr. Provostinalkov, or someone). A handsome young human clerical man in heavy armor with a comically tall helmet, a swishy little cape, and a spear; he heals with a green palm-glow and is loudly, proudly "a Rivalonian Reclamation Man from Rivalon." Eldrich reads his name as "an amalgamation of Michael and the wrong letter." He carries a treasured 25-year-old "Healer of the Year 1372" certificate.

(Our older notes render the name "Tycho"; the canonical spelling is "Tichael" — the Varian convention of "Michael" with one letter changed. Filename kept as "Tycho" to avoid breaking older links. See Canon Questions.)

Session 21

• Joined Eldrich the Elder's caravan as its healer; greeted the party demanding "full names, dates of birth, and Reclamation badge numbers… in case you die."
• Proved his healing is real by mending Magra's self-inflicted bolt-wound through the palm, and re-set Silithane's "dance-twisted" knee unprompted (knowing which knee before being told).
• Silithane forgery-checked his certificate: genuine text, but the supervising trainer's stamp was meticulously erased — someone scrubbed the human link to his past, making him hard to trace. A "Reclamation officer Dormers" name-drop drew nothing.
• Comic running gag of the session: the least subtle spy imaginable, sings the national anthem when asked where he's from. "He's just a regular spy."

Session 22

• Killed. After a session of hopelessly bad spying — crouching at the inn's windows, "talking to a horse," and reading last rites at a child's grave to dodge Thalia's fury — he is undone not by the party but by the inn's stable master, who sledgehammers him unconscious and (with Lash declining to intervene) caves his skull in: "Only good spy is a dead spy."
• Lash loots the body — a real reliquary with a tapestry scrap (a faith he only pretended to), a brass censer and incense, 11 sp / 70 cp, smashed splint mail, a shield, and a book of information — and plans (vetoed) to feed him to Squishy.
• His death leaves Eldrich the Elder's caravan without its only healer, and his true handler — who scrubbed his training record — was never identified.

Session 23

• A posthumous use: Lash melts down his ruined splint mail at the inn's trough to forge the stable master's horseshoes. Thalia keeps "I saw nothing" about his off-screen execution, fearing Eldrich the Elder's reaction.