Veiled man of the V invitation

The veiled man of the V invitation, called simply V, is a hooded figure in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained") who met Jonathan River in Sınır Sapı after an invitation signed with a V. His name, face and people were not given at the meeting.¹²

The meeting at the tomb

The invitation called Jonathan to a family tomb in the town. There a voice whose source could not be seen asked for him, and after a sign given with a bird, a slender man in a black hood, carrying knives, came into view. He took off his glove and held a silver coin, saying he understood their suspicion of shapechangers.²³

He said that they might be on the same side, and that he did not trust the witch hunters' methods. Of the sixteen marks in the area he said they were tunnels, most of them diversions, and he wished to turn to another target. He showed Jonathan a rough drawing of a creature that, he said, a friend of Lady Teresa had managed to make from afar, and passed on word of an officer's talks with drow and the claim that the people who had been taken were thought to be sick. Why the creature and the drow worked together, and how far, he said he did not know.⁴⁵⁶⁷

Asked whether the boy who had been watching the captain's house worked for him, he said yes, and that his people had earlier guarded the area against simple dangers. Jonathan said he would have the boy let go. They agreed to meet again the next evening.⁸⁹¹⁰

At the captain's house

Jonathan and Olaf thought of using his help in their questioning of Captain Markus, and a meeting at the house was set, first for nightfall and later for midnight. When V came, masked, to the house, the will speaking through Markus's body greeted him as if it knew him and told him to wait outside, and V walked out stiffly, as if no longer his own master.¹¹¹²¹³

Afterwards, when Jonathan told his companions what had passed, V said that he had been born and raised in Sınır Sapı and hated the being that was harming it. He said the town had grown quickly enough to need a governor and that its resources had kept pace with its people, but admitted that after hearing the being's words he may have begun to tie everything he saw to it. He said he had met and spoken with Teresa but did not know the secret of the object she guarded. Jonathan asked him to look for Teresa while he himself went to the governor. V said that he could usually move about freely by day, and left by a back window, knife in hand.^1415161718

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Asked about the letter found in the captain's house, V owned it: he had watched Markus because of his suspicious movements, tracks at the caves and a likeness of weapons, and, believing him a collaborator, had meant to blow up the captain and his house to frighten others like him. See Transmuting envelope bomb.¹⁹

It was later stated plainly that the veiled man was Tim, the governor's son.²⁰