#Thief the dark project series

Riches to Rags: He's gone from a well-off and respected member of the opera house's management to a mad and poor homeless guy living in a shack in the caves beneath the opera house.Plucky Comic Relief: He can sure sing and slyly comment on the corruption among the opera house's management.Impoverished Patrician: The former opera house manager, no less.Cloudcuckoolander: A rather tragic example, since he has gone mad from all the injustices inflicted upon him in the recent past, joining the ranks of the Crazy Homeless People as a result.Justified when we learn from a note that he's at home, apparently recovering from a furuncle.įormerly the manager of the Old Quarter's opera house, he has become homeless and mad after Lady Valerius and her group of schemers in the theatre's management put him out of work and confiscated his property. The Unseen: Like Lady Valerius, we never get to actually see him at the opera house.Suckiness Is Painful: The reactions of theatre-goers to his works aren't encouraging, and some people have already expressed suspicions that he's being kept in his position purely because of his secret relationship with Lady Valerius.(This proves something of an amusing bit of foreshadowing, given some of the events of the second game.) However, Cribs is not exactly Shakespeare: Garrett scoffs at the cheesiness of the passage he read from the play's manuscript, after the player finishes looking at the readable. Shout-Out: The latest play he's created 'Reginald and Conandra Forest Princess', which seems to be a loose but blatant Romeo and Juliet analogue.He's the lover of Lady Valerius, and she did him some favours in the opera house's management, including getting rid of Raoul and other staff members. Garrett in the same game even dresses up as a Hammerite Novice in one of the missions to sneak into the local Hammerite Temple. Foreshadowing: In a simultaneous amusing and tragic coincidence, as much as Garrett scoffs at 'Reginald and Conandra Forest Princess', a story of doomed romance between a Hammerite Novice and a Pagan Dryad, something quite similar ends up happening by the end of the Metal Age between him and Viktoria.The new director at the Old Quarter Opera House. The Unseen: We never get to see her at the opera house.Rich Bitch: She's wealthy and well-off, but still envies Raoul and makes sure he loses everything and becomes a pennyless beggar.Prima Donna Director: Much is made in the various readables that she's an obsessive micromanager of the opera house's operations, with new director Cribs being her henpecked lackey.Valerius also has a few lower-ranking employees fired, including Garrett's future homeless informant Giry, who worked as a ticket seller before she had him sacked. After this, Raoul becomes homeless and slowly grows insane. Mean Boss: She comes up with a scheme to get rid of Raoul as the chief manager of the opera house and replace him with her lover and lackey, Ian Cribs.Last-Name Basis: The name's implied to be a family name, not her given name.The Unseen: We never meet him in-game and outside of an image in a cutscene, we don't even get a glimpse of him.įrom a wealthy family, she holds ownership of the Old Quarter Opera House.While he's stealing the sceptre, he makes a snarky comment about Bafford's vanity. Said piece of loot is why Garrett pays him a visit in the first proper mission of the series. Small Name, Big Ego: He has a small mock-throne room deep inside his manor house, complete with throne and a rare, exquisite jeweled sceptre.You never get to see him in person, though. Recurring Character: He's mentioned throughout all three games on various occasions, usually in readables and correspondence.

#Thief the dark project series

Plucky Comic Relief: Virtually every reference to him that you come across in the series has a comedic tone.Only One Name: Revealed to be his family name in Deadly Shadows, since he has a sister named Olivia Bafford.The Mafia: Has semi-voluntary ties to Ramirez and his underlings.The Caligula: Implied by the cutscenes where he makes his sole direct appearance, and by some of the readables.