Balen Stonebold

"Lord Provost Stonebold is an imposing human man with broad shoulders, dark skin, and close-cropped hair. He appears to be in his forties, wearing a high-necked charcoal tunic with a row of gold buttons up the front, meticulously shined boots, and a short cloak buckled with his badge of office, a thin gold wire in a knot almost too complex to parse." Balen Stonebold is the current Lord Provost of the Order of the Seal. He grew up in Arnor and trained under the previous Lord Provost, Amell, and was friends with Ava and Evan. After the detonation he took over the Order and took it underground, seeking to continue the work of past Provosts and hoping to contain the Labyrinth. He works closely with Ana Rolenforth to manage and maintain the diminishing Order.

PC Interactions
The party first met the Lord Provost after the Fellmoon Arena incident, when they were inducted to the Order of the Seal. Since then, Stonebold has given them intel and direction for all of their missions, mostly by consulting the map room in the Order of the Seal headquarters.

Stonebold conveyed additional rank gems to the party's Order badges after several successful missions.

Stonebold invited the party to the Order Yearspring celebrations at the end of 632. During this time he introduced them to other members of the Order, including the Onyx team and several other reconnaissance agents.

When the party reported their knowledge of Evan and Ava, Stonebold told them of their previous friendship, which ended when they were separated during a riot a few months after Arnor. For the next few weeks, communication was primarily with Rolenforth as Stonebold set out to investigate the siblings for himself.