Who's Who in Falcon's Hollow
Danric - The ferryman of Flacon's Hollow, he is a middle aged man who takes great pride in being the only ferry in town. He's also a touch greedy and always sees to the ferry personally. He is married to an average looking woman Lilianna, and has a 16 year old son Jacoby who is rather tall for his age and doesn't look much like dad. Some rumors persist that Jacoby isn't actually Danric's biological son.
Old Lady Blackstone - A town elder, she was living all alone since her husband and sons died in a cutyard accident a few years ago. The Lumber Consortium foreclosed on her home when she couldn't pay her rent, and she's been living in poverty and off the charity of the town (which isn't much) for years. She was the first victim of the Blackscour Taint.
Sheriff Deldrin Baleson - Deldrin used to be a poor lumberjack toiling in the cutyards under Gavel Thuldrin Kreed's oppressive thumb. One day he refused to pay an “axe tax†on a lumberaxe he had already bought and paid for. Boss Teedum tried to take Deldrin's axe, and the half-elf smashed Teedum's face with the flat of it. As one of the few locals to stand up to Teedum and Kreed, he was elected Sheriff the following week. Now he carries the same axe around on his shoulder to remind Kreed and Boss Teedum he is not afraid of them. Deldrin is tall for a half-elf, towering over most humans, and his well-muscled, imposing form is further enhanced by his sharp gold-flecked eyes.
Strong-willed and tough (both mentally and physically), Sheriff Baleson takes no guff from anyone, whether publicly drunken lumberjack or wrathful Lumber Consortium gavel. Multiple attempts by the consortium and its thugs to end his life have resulted only in numerous arrests and three dead thugs. On multiple occasions, the sheriff has humbly rebuked whispered hopes of him running for mayor, saying he'd rather serve as town sheriff to “a more fair-minded†mayor.
Boss Payden "Pay Day" Teedum - Payden, the pug-faced, mash-nosed human thug licking at Kreed's boots, has a big bone to pick with Deldrin. The only reason he hasn't tried to break the sheriff's neck is that Kreed fears turning Deldrin into a martyr for other Falconers to rally around. "Pay Day" gets his name from the way he doles out “dues†to anyone who fails to follow “Mista Kreed's “ commands fast enough.
Teedum's used to people taking his orders and can't treat anyone like an equal. Kreed is a god to him and everyone else is a dung beetle, there to be herded toward useful work or squashed under his boot. Payden's an ugly thug, with a bull neck, a huge round face, and a mashed-in nose courtesy of an axe handle wielded by Falcon's Hollow's Sherrif Baleson in a cutyard brawl. He's thick shouldered and stocky, yet he moves like a trained killer. He's overly fond of chewing blood-bark, and spits its crimson leavings all over the place.
Laurel - Falcon's Hollow has few clerics, and since few townsfolk trust them, most lay their medical concerns at the feet of the local herbalist, a tough woman named Laurel (female human), whose income stems as much from her sale of snake oils and aphrodisiacs as from questionable cure-alls and bitter teas. As quick to suggest expensive remedies as she is to remind angry buyers that she is not, in fact, a physician, Laurel does her best to help those who come to her in need, but her tight income, need to survive, and pride prevent her from admitting failure.
Milon Bartholomule Rodhham - Milon is one of the older woodsmen still working in Falcon's Hollow. He is known as a wise tracker, an accomplished explorer and a font of knowledge about the Darkmoon Wood. He was able to assist in locating places like the Elder Tree and Ulizima's Hut. He also has a thing for Dreams.
Thuldrin Kreed - As the gavel (or local leader) of the Lumber Consortium, the cold and cruel Thuldrin Kreed exerts almost absolute control over Falcon's Hollow and its assets. Thus, he exerts almost absolute control over its people as well. Almost universally loathed by the town's residents, Kreed exults in his position and does as he pleases, whenever he pleases. His many cruel whims include murdering those who anger him (even in broad daylight in front of witnesses), public rape (he seems to particularly enjoy consummating marriages on behalf of outraged newlywed grooms), and random whippings on those who don't move aside fast enough (he usually carries a riding whip for just such a purpose). Thuldrin Kreed has actually mellowed somewhat in the past few years, occasionally restraining his mercurial malice. Despite his well-known evil ways, Kreed seems intent on caring for those victimized by bad luck (although those who fall victim to their own stupidity evoke no compassion from him). The sight of Kreed offering food or coin to a lumberjack injured in the line of duty (particularly those attacked by Darkmoon Wood's inhuman denizens) is not a rarity.
Jurin Kreed - Son of the wealthiest, most powerful, and evilest man in Falcon's Hollow, Jurin Kreed is a boy of eleven torn between his family and friends. Jurin behaves insufferably, snarling at the other children and threatening to have his dad's bodyguards beat them if they don't do everything he says. People wonder why the other children don't simply avoid the spoiled bully. Jurin spends many hours at the Jabbs's house.
Vren's Siblings - Not actually siblings of the dead rogue Vren, these kids grew up with Vren around the Burning Pit, and have always been considered sisters and brothers. Recently kidnapped by kobolds, they suffer at the reptilian creatures hands someplace below Droksar's Crucible.
Grunner and Nessa, twins, both are 12 years old. Nessa had some strange birthmarks on her skin, so she was considered a bad omen or even a deamon child by some. She is the leader of the pack and most like Vren. Gunner shows no such signs and is over protective of his sister, if a bit slow on the uptake.
Griet, a young girl of only 10, she is an everlasting source of optimism and jolliness.
Jak, the youngest of the group, this boy of 7 barely ever speaks. Raiders took his mother and his sister died as an infant.
Edgrin Galesong
A chubby bard extraordinaire, is a member of the Gray Eagles, an adventuring troupe based in Falcon's Hollow who ventured into the vale a week ago seeking treasure. The Gray Eagles were swarmed by a large hunting party of kobolds. Most of Edgrin's companions were killed, but he was captured alive and dragged back as captives destined either for eating or sacrifice. Originally dejected by the death of his friends, Edgrin consigned himself to his fate, but when the children were hurled into the holding pen with him Edgrin grew determined to help them escape. The bard and Ellsbeth overwhelmed their guards with more than a little help from the courageous Nessa. As they sprinted for freedom, Gunner and Elsbeth were felled by paralytic-poison-coated spears, but the other children and Edgrin made it to level 1. They took a wrong turn, where Edgrin watched helplessly as the forge spurned there dragged little Jurin Kreed into the darkness. The escapees reversed direction but the kobolds, fast on their heels, caught up to them here in the Mess Hall. Edgrin and Nessa decided to make a stand and buy Jak and Greit time to escape. Now the overweight and short man and brave little girl fight for their lives against a band of evil kobolds in a pitched battle. Edgrin is a sweaty, moon-faced little man whose heart is as big as his stomach. His once debonair, brocaded, green-velvet doublet and silk leggings are torn and covered in grime, and his lute still hangs on a strap at his side although he splintered it on a kobold's skull in defense of the kids. Edgrin is all courage and spitfire, willing to die to save any of the children.
Verrin Tieruk
He stands short and slender, with narrow shoulders and poor posture. Though he is a slim fellow his arms and back have wiry muscles from digging graves. His sloppily shaved face bears a few razor nicks in it. Heavy dark circles rim his dull gray eyes, which linger uncomfortably on whomever he encounters, as often as not staring at some part of the person's face rather than the eyes. Though he is not stupid, he often forgets the names of everyday objects (struggling to recall the name of the tool he uses to dig graves, for example), for which the people of Falcon's Hollow consider him a simpleton or halfwit. He serves as the groundskeeper of a paltry tract of rocky soil a few miles outside of town where the locals bury their dead. Over the years, his reputation as an overly eager scavenger has spread through the town, and though none have accused him of being a grave robber, they know better than to leave valuables on bodies he is to bury. He inherited the small cemetery from his greatgrandfather. Verrin lives alone in a small shack at the edge of the graveyard, and barely manages to survive off a small garden and the meager supplies he purchases on monthly trips to town. He travels about to various villages and forts in a mule-drawn wagon that reeks of death and cheap incense, and for the paltry sum of 1 sp each he carts off the dead and buries them miles away from civilization. This leaves him just enough money to cover his expenses, and on those occasions when he comes up short he simply borrows what he can from the corpses in his cart.
Namdrin Quin
Former Carnival Master. Namdrin is a sinewy half-elf of corded muscle and bone, with a long face haunted by loss. His sunken eyes do not fix on any who attempt to speak with him, instead staring off into a distant and fading memory of the happiness that once touched his soul. In desperation, Namdrin struck a bargain with the cold rider, swearing to remain aloof of the fey's evil designs on his carnival's patrons in exchange for Tessa's release from the witch ice shard, her magical prison.
Tessa Kelrand
"Namdrin Quinn should have amounted to nothing more than a rootless vagabond performer and sometime thief, no doubt destined for a young death and a shallow grave. But love intervened. When a constable named Tessa Kelrand caught the handsome young half-elf robbing a temple, she changed his life forever. Tessa tamed Namdrin first with her sword, then with her heart. She fell as hard as he after their first clash, and their scandalous affair blossomed into romance. Tessa turned in her badge, Namdrin abandoned his larcenous ways, and the two lovers became adventurers out to make their own fortunes. With Tessa at his side, Namdrin discovered hitherto untapped wells of courage and skill, and he quickly became an impressive swordsman.
The pair's travels soon brought them to the peril-fraught environs of Darkmoon Vale, where they wagered their lives on one harrowing adventure after another. After their first few journeys, they returned to the lumber boom town of Falcon's Hollow with sacks of dwarven gold and jewels pilfered from the crumbling strongholds riddling the looming mountain of Droskar's Crag.
Sadly, their success like their love was simply too good to last for long. On their return journey through the vale one cold morning in early spring, the dark fey of Darkmoon waylaid the young adventurers and captured Tessa's soul. And just like that, Namdrin's love, his life's redemption, his wife of six years, was simply gone, her body carried off into the darkness of the forest by a horrific shade. Quinn's heart shattered like a shard of brittle ice, and he returned to Falcon's Hollow a grim shadow of his former self. He put aside his famed swords and his enchanted crossbow and it seemed he would fade into ignominy. Fate, however, had other plans. Not long after his wife's death, a traveling carnival stopped in Falcon's Hollow. Driven by a compulsion he is only now beginning to understand, Namdrin joined the troupe of misfits and charlatans and brought a taste of real magic to their act. After only a few short months he ran the whole show, and over the following summer it grew from a mere sideshow into a dizzying array of color and sound."
Kabran Bloodeye - Kabran is a shortstatured half-orc with blood-red eyes. He lost his nose as punishment for numerous criminal activities in a large city far from the hollow. He wears a bronze nosepiece over the ugly crater left in the center of his face that whistles disturbingly as he breathes and leaks blood and mucus (which Kabran dabs away with a crimson handkerchief ). He runs the Rouge Lady.
Adran - The man that runs The Black Dog Boarding house. He is a middle aged man, balding with a fondness for pipes and tobacco. He's put on a few pound lately, as he does well enough for himself with the boarding house.
Vamros Harg (DEAD) - Vamros is the Magistrate of Falcon's Hollow. He's little more than a puppet for Kreed, paid off over and over again by the Gavel. Vamros is also very small, barely 4 feet tall. Locals call him a Half-Man, Halfling, Little Folk, behind his back. He's human, but certainly not a normal one. Since getting sick at the Carnival of Evil he hasn't been quite right in the head either.
Sharvaros Vade - He is a middle aged man draped in a wizard robe like you might expect. He wears a wide belt with a few spell component pouches on it but otherwise isn't armed. He is the local wizard, and sells a few magical trinkets but mostly keeps to himself in his tower. He has a young son Savram who's been caught up in the various things about town.
Kitani Eavewalker - Kimi's mother, a beautiful and charming raven-haired half-elf, very grateful for her daughter's life. (She's been flirting with Celevan) Killed in the Carnival of Tears fed to a machine in the Tent of Modern Wonders.
Kimi Eavewalker - Daughter of the famed elven ranger Idris and a beautiful seamstress named Kitani, Kimi has not seen her father in two years. The ranger is constantly away adventuring and tracking down relics for a mysterious patron. Kimi idolizes her dad and has grown into a fearless tomboy chomping at the bit to follow in her father’s adventurous footsteps as soon as she is old enough to wield a sword. Kimi is the protector of her band of friends, often scrapping with boys twice her age who try to bully the others. She usually wins these bouts, and many of the town’s children are afraid of her. She was suffering from the Blackscour Taint, but was healed by the group.
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