The paunchy and meticulous Mayor of Restov, he is of the noble Sellemius household that is known to have made their fortune through mercantile trade with distant realms. Relatively "new" when it comes to noble houses, Ioseph had to battle against a lot of prejudice among the Swordlords to attain his position. It helped that his noble house is one of the richest in all of Rostland and the Swordlords as a whole have fallen on hard times in recent years.