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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8232122" data-attributes="member: 6915329">With very few exceptions, the type of character that leaps to my mind is almost invariably female. (Take a look at fairy tales. Snow white is good and beautiful. The stepmother is not as beautiful, so out of jealousy, she becomes evil, murderous, and ugly when she disguises herself. Cinderella is good and beautiful. The stepmother and stepsisters start out as evil bullies.)If "at the time" they would be male, that was because of the prevailing sexism of the times where men were usually the main characters in the story and the woman was there to be the love interest. But he's got a lot more going for him. It is repeatedly shown how he manipulates others, and his political machinations have been written about in far greater detail than Jacqueline's. Hell, he even has his Obedient, while she doesn't have full control over all the wererats.And, in the Gazetteers, he has found a woman who is willing to pretend to like him. That didn't stop him from being awful to people in general, unlike Gabrielle, who is written as being much less evil now that she has Matton.More likely they were written either by people who liked the name Claude because it's very French (and they either didn't notice or decided it was OK for them to have two dead NPCs with the same name) without sounding sexy or pretentious, or they wanted to have a nod to actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Rains" target="_blank">Claude Rains</a> but already had two werewolf domains (Verbrek and Arkandale) and couldn't think of a good Invisible Man domain. After all, they only had a tiny handful of non-Darklord NPCs in the original box.</blockquote>

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