Nessian was the leader of the Absalom-based gang the War Hounders. While the War Hounders were mainly an upstart band of thieves and thugs, Nessian was a formidable warrior who sacrificed some of the training other fighters specialize in for a dirtier fighting style. In 4708 AR, he orchestrated a plan to initiate the centuries-old Silent Tide, an attack by undead agents of Taldor's Black Echelon against the city, as a means to blackmail the citizenry and establish himself as a primary member of the Absalom underworld but his plans were foiled by the Pathfinder Society. Nessian could most often be found at the War Hounder's base of operations, a mass of ruined siege towers known as the Pyramid of the Dog.