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Message: <blockquote data-quote="narayan" data-source="post: 6737510" data-attributes="member: 6677509">BurraiUthal dips a heel of flatbread into his stew and chews on it noisily for a few moments giving you a measuring stare. Uthal: "Jarahdrin and Jabbar eh? Odd to think of them both at the same time except as opposites. One a smuggler, the other a member of the elite merchant establishment. As far as I know they've never done business together or spoke together publicly..." He pauses to drink a deep drought of ale and immediately belches, wiping foam off his beard absently with the back of his gauntlet. "Err... step outside with me for a minute Burrai I need some fresh air." He says. Once your both out front, voices muted by the throngs of the marketplace going about their business does he speak up again.     "Sorry I didn't want to say more in front of the new recruits. The Devils are less of a family now than they were under Omar. Kadar doesn't inspire the same sort of loyalty his father did. Lots of guys come and go, its hard to say who's really loyal these days..." He says pausing to scratch at his beard."Jabbar isn't such a bad sort. Did you know he was a good friend of Omar some years back?" When you shake your head he continues. "It's true. Jabbar was one of his sponsors during his years in the arena. Some say he even had something to do with his freedom, though Omar himself never confirmed it. I do know Jabbar arranged a place for him to stay and some of the means to buy this place..." He gestures to the great hall behind you. "However, I was never privy to their private dealings, I kept my nose out of it.""Omar didn't act friendly with Jabbar in public either. Seemed to me he was told to save face so it wouldn't hurt his dealings with the rest of the town. Even so, it was obvious to me that some of our missions were part of Jabbars smuggling operation. It was never Jabbars name on the ledgers or the contracts, yet some of the folks who hired us were obviously paid stooges for Omars old associate who needed certain things done." "Of course Burrai, I expect you already knew how mercenary companies could cover for criminal organizations? We do things common thugs and bandits could never get away with. I assumed that's why you refused to work with em? Omar took that kind of personal by the way. He was fond of you but he sometimes cursed your name whenever he wished you were fighting by his side or vice-versa." "Jabbar hasn't been so active of late as he used to be. Rumor has it he was almost killed in Masaeus a couple years back with the scars to prove it. Of course most career smugglers don't live long enough to retire, but Jabbar isn't your typical smuggler in any case. His family name, Najafi, is very old and honorable in this region of Akhenaten. Some of his ancestors were important tribal chiefs, traders, even prophets.""I never cared much for ancient lineages but the locals here love and revere him as one of their leaders. He's a religious minded man as well, though how he reconciles such a dirty business as the smuggling trade with the edicts of Ishvar is a mystery to me. Anyway my point is, if there's one thing Jabbar has in common with Jarahdrin is that they're both connected either culturally or politically."  [Burrai: What do you do?]                 </blockquote>

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