John Clitherow (“Tristan”)

Type
Person: NPC.

Physical Description
Species: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 30s.

Heritage: English.

Appearance: Debonaire, James Bond-ish type. Only wears a suit when he has to and otherwise prefers Camelot military-style clothing.

Political Description
Faction: Industrialist

Faction (secret): Camelot.

Personal Description
Co-head of training (his focus is espionage); married to Margaret “Iseult” Clitherow. The two are deeply in love and form an excellent unit. Has some traction in the Gentry. Born to industrialist “management" and is still technically a part of that class.

History
Clitherow was born the second son a family of wealthy Industrialist factory owners. With his elder brother set to inherit the company, Clitherow was educated for, and guaranteed to hold, a management position to support his father's and brother's company. That guarantee was risked, however, when in a twist as old as time Clitherow fell in love with a factory worker whose family had worked at the factory for several generations, Margaret Gardener. Through Gardener, Clitherow was exposed to the injustices suffered by his father's workers and considered leaving the family, but ultimately decided he could do more good by leveraging his position within the Industrialist owning class to improve the lives of the workers. Gardner likewise introduced Clitherow to Camelot and the two rose through the ranks together.

Gardner and Clitherow likewise considered eloping, but elected to take the longer but more effective route of ingratiating Gardner to the Clitherow family; this was accomplished by encouraging the belief that Clitherow had "improved" Gardner in a "my fair lady" situation. The Clitherows now consider Gardner an "almost" proper socialite, without any inkling of what their younger son and daughter-in-law actually think of the Gentry, or for that matter of the Industrialists' marriage of convenience with the Gentry.