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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9705286" data-attributes="member: 4937">#13: Tidwulf the Knacker: Human Rog1/Exp3Tidwulf is a continually presence in the marketplace, though no one pitches there tent to close.  Tidwulf buys and slaughters lame horses and other animals that have aged beyond their service life.  Although he usually does his slaughter on his small farm outside of town, sometimes animals are too lame or in too much pain to make the trip, and so its often reeks near this stall.  Tidwulf sells the hide, bones, glue, tendons, meat and other salvageable parts to those industries in the city which depend on them (with the meat often being sold to the poor who can afford no better).  Tidwulf has a wife and seven children back at home on the farm.  He is a tired and jaded man with droll since of humor, but a surprising hidden tenderness.  He becomes furious at a seller who brings in an animal which has been ill-used, and must sometimes be restrained from taking a knife or cleaver to those who offend him in this regard. #14: Burgwyn the Yarn Seller: Human Com3Burgwyn is a thick set elderly woman who lives outside the city but comes on market days to sell homespun and home dyed yarns in several bright colors.  Her husband, a retired mercenary, remains at home on the farm and is seldom seen, owing to the loss of both of his legs at the knees.  Burgwyn carries the wares in herself and keeps up her business in order that she and her husband will not be a burden to their five children and fifteen grandchildren.  Many days she is accompanied by 1d3 of her younger granddaughters as “helpers”, who mostly serve to keep her company or run short errands for her.  Burgwyn has a rivalry with Raven (#10) but harbors no animosity to her competitor.  She admires Aldfrith (#12) as a kindred from the same village, but holds an unfair animosity toward Sondburt (#5) whom she discourages her grandchild from interacting with and with Synred (#41), in both cases because of her deep seated animosity toward orcs owing to the maiming of her husband in combat with an orc war horde.  #15 Berngon the Fowler: Human Ftr3Berngon is a skilled trapper that catches wild fowl in nets or other traps and brings them into the city.  He generally has cages of live quail, doves, partridge, pheasants, squabs, wild hens, and ducks, as well as a few slaughtered birds ready for the table.  Berngon lives outside of the city and is divorced, his wife having left him to raise his infant son by himself while she ran off with a travelling theater group.  His son is now seven and usually in the care of his sister, but about a third of them is helping dutifully along with his father – quiet but well mannered.  Berngon has told his son his mother died.  Berngon has an unreasonably hatred of all actors and most buskers, taking out his frustrations on Torvold the Mummer (#27) who has done nothing to deserve his ire.#16 Owenbald Dipper the Water Monger: Human War3Owenbald arrives daily in the market with a large and heavy wain loaded with barrels and casks of various sizes.  He buys used barrels and has Erni (#3) repair them if necessary.  The barrels are filled with fresh water from natural springs several miles outside the city, and are brought to the city for those who desire fresh water and don’t trust the river or other nearby sources.  He sells in all quantities, from tuns to the brewers, pitcher fulls to the cooks of noble houses, to ladles to beggars (who can purchase a month of daily water rations for a copper).  Owenbald is a fair man but not generous.  He works hard for his money often on twelve or sixteen hour days, and expects all others to work equally hard.  He is assisted in his work by two sturdy son (Owenbald Jr. (“Junior”) and Trapper) and his sturdy but handsome daughter Mildwen.  #17 Beornford the Greengrocer: Human Exp3Beornford is a successful farmer and grocer who brings his own seasonable produce into market from his forty acres of cultivated land, occasionally supplemented by what he can buy for a good price from his neighbors (most commonly apples and other orchard fruit).  He prides himself on bringing on the finest and freshest produce in the city and his produce indeed sits on the best tables of the city, purchased by the finest caterers and cooks.  As fitting his clientele, he dresses well (but not as well as he can afford).  Personable, well-mannered, and with lush beard and a broad grin he is easy to like and knows well how to secure a sell, even to those who didn’t believe they were interested.  He sells his wares from a great wain, and is assisted by a son who is the spitting image of his father sans the magnificent beard and a plain but well-fed daughter who has inherited her father’s good nature and charm.  Beornford has an unhealthy dislike of Wigmar (#6) and a more understandable dislike of “Tiny” Turstan.  (#25).  He’s friends with Aldfrith the Drover (#12).  While he rarely stays in town after dark, preferring the company of his wife, if he can be convinced to take a drink on friendly terms in a bar, he will under the influence of alcohol and good company let slip some of the juiciest gossip in the city, knowing a surprising amount of the households of the cities wealthy unwisely revealed by loose lipped cooks and junior butlers.  #18 Hergryth Matter the Rushes Monger: Human Com3Hergryth Matter sells fresh cut bundles of reeds for the floors of the less wealthy in the city, the best of which are bound with herbs like mint and thyme to bring sweet smells to the home.  She lives outside the city and has a donkey to carry the piles she brings in every day, usually selling most of her wares.  She is middle aged but still of childbearing age, auburn haired, strong and comely save for her pock marked cheeks which bear the scars of the pox.  She is widowed and has two children under age eight which she leaves at home, trusting them more to the dangers of wood and fen than the city.  Her husband died of the pox some five years ago during a plague which ravaged much of the countryside.  She is not looking actively for a husband, but wouldn’t reject a suitable suitor with a good income.  She generally keeps to herself, but is cordial with Raven (#10) and Burgwyn (#14).  “Natty Anges” makes her very uneasy.  She has a hidden crush on the elegant Galter (#29), but considers him decidedly unsuitable as a suitor.</blockquote>

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