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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9705228" data-attributes="member: 4937">#8: Guidmund the Busker: Human Exp4Guidmund is a street musician specializing in bawdy songs and dirty jokes, who enjoys interacting with an audience, especially pretty women.  A vain and greedy man himself he has no tolerance for vanity or wealth in others and enjoys humbling anyone he deems as putting on airs with his sharp wit and practiced putdowns.  Guidmund often employs a laborer friend named Sidfred on days Sidfred cannot find work to stand anonymously in a crowd or pick fake fights with him to draw attention, pretending to heckle Guidmund but really feeding him lines which Guidmund will use to invariably win such banter and send the embarrassed Sidfred off in a huff as part of the act.  Guidmund is well liked by the watch but often finds himself thrown into the donjon for a night after picking a rhetorical fight with the wrong noble or wealthy guildsman.  However, the watch enjoys his jokes so much that they never beat him and treat him kindly compared to other prisoners, freeing him again at the first opportunity with a insincere promise he won’t do it again.  Guidmund dislikes Wigmar (#6) with a fierce hatred, and is chiefly responsible for spreading nasty rumors about the mage and turning much of the market against him.  Guidmond suspects Balthar’s (#38) alliance with the thieves but keeps the information to himself for when it might be useful.#9: Herebird the Drunk: Human Brb1/Com2Herebird is a large nosed amiable beggar and drunkard, always begging for coppers and drink to feed his unhealthy addiction and frequently found snoring in an alleyway once he obtains some drink.  At last resort he will work as a common laborer, particularly during the harvest season.  Stronger than he looks, he is dangerous if provoked and as skilled with his fists as if they were oaken cudgels.  He is sometimes also hired as muscle by the local thieves since he works cheap, but when sober he is unreliable as a thug owing to his soft heart.  #10: Raven Weaver the Homespun Seller: Human Com3Raven is widow seller of homespun cloth, chiefly wool, knitted caps being her main trade but also scarves and vests and baby blankets.  She lives outside of the city and only comes into sell when she has enough product to make it worth her while.  She walks with a cane and a stooped back.  Her hair is silver.  She is friends with Enri Cooper (#3) and knows his history, but the relationship is purely platonic – both having had enough sorrows for a lifetime.#11: Colas “Featherbright” the Farrier: Gnome Exp4Colas or “Featherbright” is a gnome farrier known throughout the market for his absent mindedness and his great skill with animals, especially horses.  Cheerful and flighty, he is fond of bright colors.#12: Aldfrith the Drover: Human Ftr1/Exp4Aldfrith buys cattle, and sometimes sheep and goats, from rural areas and drives them to the city to turn a profit with the help of his three sons Ianhair, Conred, and Flodrid.  Stern and with a well-developed sense of justice, Aldfrith is a hard man and a hard bargainer, and all four men are skilled fighters capable of holding their own with bandits and thieves.  If trouble starts in the market, they’ll arm themselves with whips, clubs, and knives and seek to intervene, favoring protecting the poor from the wealthy, the weak from the strong, and the innocent from the corrupt.  Aldfrith is friends with Brili (#34), Earcanwald (#7) and Beornford (#17) and generally dislikes but does not persecute the market’s various drunks, ruffians, buskers, and beggars.  He discourages people from giving to such “riff raff” saying it only encourages them but would haste to defend them from anyone who would abuse them or take advantage of them.  He is actively the enemy of “Tiny Turstan” (#25).  He frequently exchanges words with Algond (#22), but despite ongoing argument between the two there is an underlying respect.</blockquote>

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