Alistair Vargrend

 was a young and learned priest of Mortaebius whom Lord Crabett brought from the south to his keep, sometime around 464. The keep would later be taken over by Warlord Bristol and his troops, and eventually be expanded to Bristol Manor.

The Alistair Vargrend Memorial Library which served the Bristol and Vargrend Academies was named in his honor.

While the Warlord Bristol initially enslaved and mistreated , eventually he was recognized for his learning, and buried in the family crypt beneath the Bristol Manor. The sole surviving daughter of Lord Crabett, Elaine Crabett Bristol was forced to marry the warlord, but she loved Alastair all her life, and even after their deaths, as ghosts. Alistair's ghost was fed by the emotions of pain and powerlessness, probably as a result of feeling those emotions under the warlord's occupation. His ghost was known as The Scribner.

Elaine's second son, Terrance Bristol was the illegitimate child of. Considering that he became the first Baron Bristol, the noble Bristol family is really the blood of the Vargrends and Crabetts.

The Guardian Baladus Vargrend was the son of by a wife that was assigned by Warlord Bristol. She was not a handsome woman, and knew that Alastair loved Elaine; however, she was intelligent and hated the Warlord Bristol. She and Alastair loved their son Baladus, and had a friendly if not overly romantic marriage.