Burhan

Background
Burhan Roche (as you knew him at the time) had worked at the House Orien warehouse with you in Fishgut for years. He was a quiet gnome - a hard workeer, but very serious. He had little patience for Sarienne and Cornerio's goofing off, and he would threaten to tell Gul if he thought you weren't pulling your weight. Even though Burhan was an asshole at times, it was a surprise when you found your coworkers dead and Burhan working with Gul to steal one of House Orien's lightning rail trains. You managed to stop Burhan’s attempted theft and later caught up with him, interrogating him harshly. In particular, Sarienne left a deep impression upon Burhan: a massive scar across his chest, starting at the neckline and proceeding downwards.

You found out that he belonged to a secretive cult called the Stargazers. Burhan explained that he came from poverty in Zilargo and that he just wanted to change the status quo. Burhan claimed that Gul hadn't told him exactly what they were doing, just that they were going to go to places where the connection between planes was already weak - called manifest zones - and that there'd be a lot of gold in it for him. At the end of the interrogation, Mogen intervened to spare Burhan and in exchange, the gnome told you the location of 60 gold that he and Gul had stolen.

(Incidentally, wherever Burhan was born, it was not in Zilargo. I spent a considerable amount of coin to find that there are no records of his birth in the Zilargo Sanitation Department's archives - and let me tell you, the gnomes there write every damn thing down.)

You next encountered Burhan in the Faerie Kingdom after he and rest of the Stargazers slaughtered a Gatekeeper Elder on Solomon's Rock to open a portal to the feywild. When you eventually arrived at the court of the Faerie King, you saw that the Stargazers were there with a golden ant as tribute. Figaro had made a deal with the Stargazers to get them in front of the Faerie King. From what you could hear, Burhan asked for a dragonshard key, saying he needed it to open the Gloaming. He also mentioned the name Keller. Happily, you managed to win the favor of the Faerie King and Vesun received the key instead.

Before you left the Faerie Kingdom, you slipped a stone of far speech into Castor's pocket, which allowed you to overhear a conversation between Burhan, Jana, and a mysterious blindfolded hobgoblin named Yuriy. That was the last time you saw Burhan.