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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rastfar" data-source="post: 3659320" data-attributes="member: 9596">26 Ter, 637 M.YGarkhan the Green.  Garkhan the Garbage-Picker.  The grubby, the grotesque, the gross, grimy, grungy, grody.  I had heard all of these names used in reference to our illustrious watch-mage, wielding some myself as a child.  He has no knighthood and I dare suggest that he never will even be considered.  Why should he?  He has done nothing to distinguish himself.  He boasts no fantastic deeds or heroics against odds unnumbered.  Yet, I now begin to see Garkhan for what he really is.  A real Watch-Mage, much more worthy of emulation than many of these so-called virtuous paragons.  He may be peculiar, odd, and prone to foul stench, but his heart is large, his honour strong, his perceptions and priorities clear.Having grown up in Weirspeirogen, being of common blood, and now serving as his people’s protector, Garkhan the Green has a perspective unique to those lives his lies entwined with.  I am given the impression that he harbours umbrage for House Devenpeck, as there is overtly no love lost by the noble family for their watch-mage.  He has given me hospitality this night, and allowed me to make pleasantries and ask my humble questions.  He found opportunity to subtly interrogate me in return, measuring me, trying to gauge me as a man, a mage.  Thinly veiled insinuation has me believe that House Devenpeck would much rather see him replaced with someone younger, more suitable to their agenda, more appropriate of their station and in line with their paradigm.Me.  Brilliant really, for whatever suggestion House Devenpeck must have sown in my father’s ears, Callum would not know it to be serving as a means to manipulative end.  And insightful.  Garkhan is clearly more clever and understanding of Weirspeirogen’s political trickeries than he is ever given credit for.  Having glimpsed such rare insight into the true man, witnessing his pride, affinity for his home, love for his people, despite reputation and mockery, I am forced to concede that I believe he is fully aware of all his actions.  He likely employs his full faculties to continue with the façade of Garkhan the Garbage-Picker, shrewd in that he is utterly seen as an eccentric figurehead.  And so now I must reflect and wonder: what kind of impression have I left with him?  For it is Garkhan who provides me with fables of a box of wands.  Would he intentionally lead me astray?  Would he tempt me to search out such an item while at the King Stones, knowing it did not exist?  I must trust in my instinct in this.  The answer must be no.   ‘Language most shews a man.  Speak that I may see thee.’</blockquote>

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