ER:Father Egbert

From The Heretic Knowledge Vault

Father Egbert is a key non-player character in the Errant Road free-form role-playing game. Needless to say, he's not seen in the Poe-verse.

When first encountered, Father Egbert is the assistant Abbot at the mission of the Veracian Church in Kiyoka. His first appearance is in the form of a bat, chasing away a winged, flying cat purportedly descended from a familiar that got loose in town. He's observed by player character Grope, a troll who's lurking on the roof of the mission, for reasons having nothing to do with the Veracian Church. Several other player characters (Lucas Ravanel, Jamie Porter and others) are in the vicinity at the time, but do not interact with Egbert -- yet.

Later, Egbert becomes important to the story line as he engages player character Argus Cleiviein in an attempt to determine just what caused the serious structural damage to the mission, and why. (Readers and players know that the mission's back wall was knocked down when Lucas, Jamie and colleagues made a hasty escape from the mission, but the people at the mission don't know that.) Something occurring during the research causes him to be seriously freaked out at the mention of the name "Lucas Ravanel," and he immediately goes on the lam, leaving town via a warp gate but inexplicably disappearing on his arrival in Saus. Argus and his assistants at the mission are currently trying to locate Egbert and sort out the reasons for his disappearance; there have been hints that he's still alive somewhere in Veracia, without any details. He is known to have a sister in Veracia, one Mildred Hamael who lives in the small town of Heamish with her husband Wilbur and two children. However, the Hamaels deny having seen Egbert any time recently.

Father Egbert is from the minor "Millenarian" denomination of the Veracian Church. The relationship of this denomination to the more fully developed Orthodox and Reform branches of the Church is uncertain.