Cassius Vane is the director of the Candlelight Players at the Footlight Theater in Argentum.1
Description
Appearance
An older human man with a neatly trimmed grey beard and deep-set eyes. He wears a long charcoal coat with silver thread through the cuffs.1
Personality
Cassius listens to his actors run lines from the back of the stage, nodding now and then or shaking his head.1 He let Rhysaene’s friends wait in the audience, though the theater does not usually open to the public for rehearsals.1 Watching Iva and Iados fight a mock duel, he asked Sera Siannodel to write a sword fight into the troupe’s next play.1 He is warm with Rhysaene and careful with the troupe’s money. He greets her as a friend and sees her off with “As are you, my dear”, but once he had seen the quality of her recent work, he would not pay her for scenery until the designs were settled, so as not to pay for work that would have to be redone.2
Biography
Session 17
On 7 Nightdeep, 1714 PSF, Cassius welcomed the party to the Footlight as friends of Rhysaene, and asked them not to touch anything without asking.1 When Sera and Donella Daergel pounded on the prop room door, he ordered them as director to stop, and they did not.1 He had heard that Rhysaene was quite the painter. The troupe’s background painter was not very good, and he asked her to paint their scenery, for pay, once the art direction of their new production was settled.1
Session 19
On 9 Nightdeep, 1714 PSF, Cassius hopped down from the stage to greet Rhysaene, who had brought a new painting.2 He stroked his beard over it for a minute and called it quite beautiful, and agreed to sell it on consignment from the lobby. She asked 145 crowns, and he was sure it would sell for that, given time.2 He hung Burning Fields in the entrance hallway.2 The troupe was still writing its next performance, and he put off her scenery until the designs were settled.2
Quotations
- “What I’m trying to say is please, our current background painter is not very good, we’re saying please.” Cassius to Rhysaene.1
- “Rhysaene, this is quite beautiful.” Cassius, on Burning Fields.2