Gregory Hatchot

Gregory Hatchot was the leader of the Forum of Shadows during it's foundation. He was later granted the title of a noble, which he symbolically extended upon the entire organization.

Biography
Most of what accounts to the creation of the Forum has been erased from all accounts across the world, saved are only the scriptures within Forum's vast libraries.

As it is, the man known only as 'Gregori' was a prolific thief, smuggler and assassin, operating within the borders of Lanniston. During that time, crime was unusually high, an annual report stated that almost a third of all trading expenses could be attributed to highwaymen, extortionists and other miscreants.

Finally fed up, the presiding elite of city commerce gathered in secret, handling out an unusual solution. Gregori was contacted, with offers of support and favors, were he to band together the city's teeming criminal scum into an official collective. No total loyality was demanded, no strings attached.

Gregori's popularity, cunning and raw manipulative charisma made it all too easy. Small pockets of criminals were quickly swept into his criminal machine, filed by rank and skill and filtered. By the end of the year, the violent crimes ceded place to clandestine trade of information, most often through the hand of the competing traders themselves. The wealth, the connections, power, prestige - the Forum became so sophisticated and thorough, that history itself could not keep up.

Gregory, now the grandmaster of the secretive organization was, with the graces of many, many supporters, raised to the status of nobility, adopting the monker of sir Gregory Hatchot, a trait he superficially assigned to the entire Forum. He lived long and prospered until his death, fourty years later, dying one of the richest men in the kingdom and commited to his private mausoleum.

Only one scroll details the full truth though. Only Gregori and his closest adjutants knew, that all along, he was responsible for the criminal unrest and the seeds of his own ascension. Indeed, possessed of a cunning so vile, 'Gregori' was the mastermind of the Forum's uprising from before it even existed.