Aberian Arvanxi is a bad man by the standards of Infernal Cheliax, and that's really saying something. He is the patriarch of one of Cheliax's wealthiest and oldest families, certainly the wealthiest and oldest to ally with the Thrunes before they had many allies, and much wealthier after that. He has fourteen children, six of them living, four of them Dukes or Duchesses; one of his granddaughters was briefly the Queen of Korvosa and another has a good shot at being the next Empress of Taldor and a third he took as his mistress; he has ten thousand slaves and has paved his courtyards with the skulls of children in deliberate imitation of rumors of Dis.

He made enemies in Egorian, in the course of his decades of plotting and scheming and making absurd amounts of money, and eventually Infrexus tired of him and punished him with an appointment as the Lord Mayor of Westcrown, which would at least get him out of the capitol. 

He took to the unwelcome assignment with aplomb and killed fully half the merchants and intelligensia of Westcrown in his first year on the job. When this reduced tax revenues in the second he just sold lots of people into slavery to make up the difference. He worked the finances out eventually; possibly the man's worst quality is that he wasn't stupid. 

He built the greatest mansion in all of Westcrown, the Vaneo Arvanxi, sprawling across a hundred acres in the north of the city. He spends fairly astonishing sums of money on it. There's the classiest gladiatorial arena in town, which used to host really spectacular events where called angels were torn apart by wild animals, a separate stadium for public executions which guaranteed it would have someone slowly dying at all times and the palace itself. The palace sprawls across four acres and purchased dozens of new slaves every week due to...high turnover...in the course of their duties. 

Aberian Arvanxi is a bad man by the standards of Infernal Cheliax, and that's really saying something. He is the patriarch of one of Cheliax's wealthiest and oldest families, certainly the wealthiest and oldest to ally with the Thrunes before they had many allies, and much wealthier after that. He has fourteen children, six of them living, four of them Dukes or Duchesses; one of his granddaughters was briefly the Queen of Korvosa and another has a good shot at being the next Empress of Taldor and a third he took as his mistress; he has ten thousand slaves and has paved his courtyards with the skulls of children in deliberate imitation of rumors of Dis.

He made enemies in Egorian, in the course of his decades of plotting and scheming and making absurd amounts of money, and eventually Infrexus tired of him and punished him with an appointment as the Lord Mayor of Westcrown, which would at least get him out of the capitol. 

He took to the unwelcome assignment with aplomb and killed fully half the merchants and intelligensia of Westcrown in his first year on the job. When this reduced tax revenues in the second he just sold lots of people into slavery to make up the difference. He worked the finances out eventually; possibly the man's worst quality is that he wasn't stupid. 

He built the greatest mansion in all of Westcrown, the Vaneo Arvanxi, sprawling across a hundred acres in the north of the city. He spends fairly astonishing sums of money on it. There's the classiest gladiatorial arena in town, which used to host really spectacular events where called angels were torn apart by wild animals, a separate stadium for public executions which guaranteed it would have someone slowly dying at all times and the palace itself. The palace takes up four acres and purchased dozens of new slaves every week due to...high turnover...in the course of their duties.