The Master Archivist

The Master Archivist (real name if they have one unknown) is an NPC in the Temphere Campaign. They are a banshrae, a rare, anti-social Feywilde race that resembles a praying mantis. The Master Archivist wanted nothing more to do with the party than they had to have, and as such revealed nothing personal about themselves- not their name, not their gender, nothing. They communicate in telepathy, but seem to understand at least Common and Sylvan.

Story
The party met the Master Archivist briefly during the events of the Feywilde Ball. They are the keeper of Queen Naireda's libraray, but opted not to attend the ball themselves out of a profound dislike of noisy crowds. It seems that the queen promised them a peaceful evening, because when the party arrived in the library the archivist was extremely annoyed about it.

Nonetheless, they did agree to help, going through the collection for the party and bringing back numerous tomes with extremely valuable information in them. Since the books were all in Sylvan, they also cast the spell Comprehend Languages on the party so they could actually read the books, implying that either banshrae have innate magical abilities, or the Master Archivist themselves has studied magic.

Personality
The Master Archivist, typically for a banshrae, is stand-offish and doesn't like large, noisy groups of people. They are cranky, snide, to-the-point, and more than anything want to be left alone with their books. Dahlia did manage to win at least a crumb of respect from them when she explained she was also a librarian, however.

Trivia

 * Tiger indicated that she does think the Master Archivist has a binary gender- but they didn't tell it to the party because they were just that uninterested in dignifying the party with their time.