Earl Yander Merkondus is a small man in his early thirties. He has dark hair and wears a short beard that is neatly trimmed and well oiled.

A man of endless charm and twisted but brilliant intellect.

“Earl Merkondus is a wealthy merchant from Moda who fancies himself a politico and presses everyone around him for information on their loyalties in the “recent unpleasantness.” He can stay only for the first day of the Jubilee, departing on the second morning before breakfast.

Yander’s parents died in a carriage accident when he was 15, leaving him the family's extensive Opparan manor, several successful trading companies, and the title of Earl of the Western Rushing Marches—a large swath of land along Taldor’s swampy Moda Prefecture. ”