Garland Finnegan

Biography
Wizened, Spring Court, Playmate

"That's a good man, care for a round of billiards?"

Garland Finnegan is loud, boisterous, friendly, and always in good spirits. That is, of course, a front – mostly. That front is the Changeling he used to be before donning the Emerald Crown. The Spring Court truly is one of revelry and release, but Chicagoland is a place of corruption and politicking. Due to the constant bickering of the other three courts, the Spring Court has naturally been drawn in – lest it lose it’s own power and influence. Garland realized this once the Emerald Crown grew from his scalp.

Garland has held the crown for thirty years and has grown better at the game of houses with each turning of the wheel. He was a newly christened King when the Pyre King, Marcus O’Brien was busy consolidating the reaches of the South Chicago Freehold. The two formed a rivalry of sorts during those early years and it quickly turned a cold war that continues to this night. Garland has favored the use of proxies for his own designs, most typically playing the Autumn and Winter courts off of the Summer court, keeping the Spring court snuggly in the center and impartial.

He understands Cynthia’s plans and agrees with them – for the most part. He thinks it futile to have the Mages attempt to wipe out the Fae. The Changelings and the Mages do not know enough about the Fae to be sure that such a plan would work. How are the Fae made, for instance? What if more crop up in place of the fallen? A risk venture. Garland believes that the Mages have it in their power to transmute the brambles of the Hedge into Iron.

Garland’s grand plan is to push Cynthia’s plans forward to the point of War, but never actually declaring it. He would be sure to forestall the first blow until the Spring Court’s time came again and then he would take decisive action to push the Mage’s to enact his own place: Trap the True Fae in Arcadia by turning the Hedge to an Iron Hedge.