Roland Brooke
Crystal/Mateus
Name: Roland Brooke
Race: Midlander Hyur
Age: 36
Server: Crystal / Mateus
Timezone: PST (flexible, often late nights)*Baron of House Brooke. Knight, spymaster, artifact dealer. A man who built a noble house from nothing and holds it together through coin, secrets, and sheer stubbornness *
RP HOOKS
These are the stories waiting to happen. Come with an idea or let one of these pull you in.⚔️ Political Intrigue — Rival houses, Monetarist schemes, blackmail, trade wars. Ul’dah is a city that runs on leverage, and Roland has plenty — and plenty of enemies.
🗡️ Espionage & Intelligence — He runs a quiet network. Need information? Need someone watched? Need a problem to disappear without a body? There’s a price for everything.
🏠 Found Family — People who get pulled into the Brooke orbit don’t leave easily. Retainers, allies, strays — the house collects people the way it collects artifacts.
💀 Dark Themes — Patricide rumors, Garlean blood, a family that fled occupation and built power on secrets. Moral grey areas are the norm, not the exception.
🤝 Rivalry & Friction — Not everyone needs to like him. Political opponents, old grudges, competing interests — tension makes good story.
☕ Slice of Life — The man behind the title. A father figuring it out. A widower who doesn’t talk about it. Quieter moments that make the heavy stuff land harder.
ABOUT
Roland Brooke is the Baron of House Brooke — a noble house in Ul’dah that didn’t exist two decades ago. His family fled Ala Mhigo during the Garlean occupation with nothing but the clothes on their backs and secrets worth killing for. His father, Al’Adam, built the house through wealth, blackmail, and ruthless ambition. Roland inherited all of it — the fortune, the enemies, and the blood on the ledger.Trained as a knight at the Crystal Order, Roland carries himself with the discipline of a soldier and the instincts of a politician. He runs Al’Adam Holdings & Exchange on the surface — artifact acquisition, trade, legitimate business. Beneath that, he operates an intelligence network that keeps the house standing when coin alone won’t do it.He’s been married, widowed, and carries the kind of grief he folds into work rather than words. His daughter Kailee is the center of his world — a girl displaced from a timeline that no longer exists, sharp-tongued and adjusting to a life that wasn’t supposed to be hers. Raising her alone has softened edges Roland didn’t know he still had.At 36, Roland is past the age of proving himself. He knows what he is — a man who will do ugly things to protect the people he loves, and live with the weight of it after. He’s not a hero. He’s not a villain. He’s a father, a baron, and a spy who sleeps light and keeps his blade close.
Father Al Adam
Mother- birth - Ralina
Mother-Ishgard- Renae
Mother-Higian- NimueaOlder Sister(27), Priss
Step Sister (24) Astrid
Younger Sister Nyema
Younger Sister(13) Genevive
Younger Sister(2) KikieArianne- Wife
OOC / PREFERENCES
Timezone: PST, often online late nights
RP Style: Para to multi-para (2-5 paragraphs typical), mirroring welcome
Platform: In-game preferred, Discord for longer scenes or scheduling
Preference: Long-term connections over one-shots. Plot over fluff, but both have their place.
Dark Themes: Yes — violence, espionage, moral ambiguity, trauma, political manipulation. Discussed OOC first.
Boundaries: Communicated openly. OOC ≠ IC. Plotting encouraged.
Contact: DM on Discord or /tell in-game