#ranceto

Ranceto is presently the Director of the Acridi Harbor! He's the guy everyone goes to for permission to bring dragons into the harbor, for permits regarding trade or setting up shop, etc etc etc. basically anything you see in the harbor was made in such a way under Rancetos order.

Ranceto isn't specifically alive though. Previously a pirate that roamed the coast of the Scarred Wasteland and Sea of a Thousand Currents, Ranceto was killed by Captain Matvei in a battle aptly dubbed "Matvei's Cradle". The two had a bit of a romantic history in the past, but unfortunately their past love wasn't enough to keep them from battling to the death in order to stake out more claim to ocean. The scars along Rancetos face is from said battle, in which witnesses claim that despite the goreish result, it had looked as if Matvei was cradling Ranceto as he took his final breath.

Rancetos spirit wouldn't settle despite accepting his loss of this battle. As a man who frequented the Harbor before it was deemed the Acridi, his spirit was pulled to it, alongside many others, and now he can no longer leave the harbor. Ranceto would fight his way to the top and become director over all these spirits over the course of a couple decades, and he has earned the respect of them through it too. Though the Acridi may look haunting still, it's a vast improvement from when Ranceto had first been pulled to it, but he doesn't intend to take away the maze-like effect for mortals as a means to protect the spirit world that is hosted there now.