Vincent D’fornio

When the party confronted the elven forger and kept pressing him for more information on the Malachite Men that he did not have, he concocted a tale that suggested that a fellow by the name of D’fornio in town was a wealthy aristocrat who had a large set of details on the scandals and blackmail information available on many people ein town. He suggested that he had been hired to copy and alter the blackmail list, and once it was found out that he had been doing so, that D’fornio had sicced the Malachite Men on him. The party saw through this deception and learned a more startling truth: D’fornio does have such a list (though the forger would never go near it) but he is also one of the most dangerous assassins in the city. The party could begrudgingly admit that they could see how his lie pointing the party to break into a Master Assassin’s home might be a way to get them off his back. . . permanently.

After Jack’s attack on Wynsten’s parents, Vincent’s name had been carved on Agatha Churchill’s stomach. The party at first believed this might have been Jack taunting them with some indication of his mortal identity – the truth proved (once again) far, far, more unpleasant. Vincent D’fornio is Wynsten’s biological father; his family is a family of assassins and trap makers who have the Mechanus bloodline. Vincent offered the party that he would tell them the truth if they drank a potion that binds them to silence amongst anyone outside of the speakers on this issue – hinting it would protect them from Jack getting this knowledge. But the knowledge was less about Jack and more about family – the D’fornios have been playing a long game of chess and have manipulated various peoples in order to eventually get the Celestial Plumes. Wynsten, in Vincent’s mind, was only born specifically so he might be able to reunite the plumes. Wynsten’s uncle apparently is the "Malachite Man" – there apparently is only one, and it is a form of cloned / simulacrumed body off of a Mechanus creature called a Parai.