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I was thinking we should detail the inhabitants of Elmshade a little better. Get a little more of a personal feel to Elmshade. So when ppl come here they get an idea of the personalities, and habits of the more common locals in ES.

Loki an I came up with jarlosh and Hilga for the Twisted Root Tavern. For those who regularly play here they know who these ppl are, and where to find them...in the tavern. I would like to do similar things all around ES.

We already have Captain Grant for the Guards of ES, and we need to keep releventpeople to the services that can be found in ES.

We could use a Stable Master that can reshoe, and tend to the horses that constantly come down the caravan route. This person could also serve as the local smithy, able to repair small weapons and armor.

We could use a town official, such as a Mayor to tend to the political side of ES. Serve as ES Emisary, collect taxes, and keep buisness flowing in ES. That person could even be a members character, even have an election for it. Just an idea.

Heres some more ppl I thought we could do a profile on. Maybe even make a page for them all to be seen at once. Let me know what you all think. And of course it would be nice if there were pictures for them all.

Trade Master (Open a Trading Post. hmm.)

Area Farmers (Vineyard, cattle, and grain.)

NAME:

Mathyas Steele

Mercernary/3rd level/Neutral Good

TITLE(s):

Norwood/Son of a soldier, Sir Cuthbert Steele and his wife, Gertrude.

"Sir Mathyas," "Lord Steele"

Mathyas claims to have had his weapons blessed by, "the most holy of priests who will ever walk this land." The righteous and honorable, "Father Duncan." Of course, whenever Mathyas drops his name at an attempt for some quick prestige, (which he tends to do often,) he seems to be the only one that has heard of this "Father Duncan," inciting the man to begin labeling those all around him heathens and philistines.

Of course the reason for Father Duncan's obscurity is because in actuality, Father Duncan was a beggar who mugged a priest and put on his robes and was about to exit said priest's temple when none other than Mathyas showed up demanding to have a blessing put upon his axe and blade. When the arrogant ex-soldier offered money, the beggar kindly obliged. Of course this fact makes none of Mathyas's possesions magic or extraordinary in any way.

Mundane Possessions: Regular sword, regular axe, sheath for sword, case for axe. Leather chest armor, leather belt with metal buckle, leather boots, cloth pants, black eyepatch. In small backpack: 20' of rope, Flint/Steel, various animal skins for sleep, flask, 2 months military food rations.

LOCATION:

Building 1 on the Elmshade Map

HISTORY:

Mathyas Steele was born in Norwood as the son of a human soldier in the Norwood army, Cuthbert Steele. At a young age, Mathyas was prepped by his father for military training lasting into his teens and until he was ready serve in the Norwood army. However, in what his father saw as disgraceful, Mathyas never took his service completely seriously, opting for drinking and lusting after anything in a skirt with two legs. Of course he was a ferocious warrior which kept him in the army for awhile. However, even a great warrior can overstep his boundries when he beds a General's concubine. Mathyas would have been killed by the General himself had it not been for his father's intervention. However, it was agreed upon that Mathyas no longer deserved the priviledge of military rank and was dishonorably diacharged from the military and completely ousted from Norwood, however to save face, all parties involved said Mathyas left of his own accord. However, since he was a beloved soldier no matter how much of a fool he was, a group of his fellow soldiers and companions left their ranks to follow him out of Norwood. To this day, Mathyas and his companions have been traveling as a sort of mercernary troupe, and they have wandered into Elmshade Village with hopes of landing another job. (Soldier's Steele),

PERSONALITY:

Mathyas is undoubtedly a pompous man, carrying such annoying mannerisms as insisting on being addressed as "Sir Mathyas" or "Lord Steele," bringing up his military experience with every chance he gets,, and traveling with a band of loyal followers who praise his every word and action. However, this does not make him an evil man. He is excessively friendly and trusting, which at times borders on sheer gullibility. He will almost always buddy up to someone or at least attempt to within five minutes of meeting them. Nonetheless he is by no means a "Choir boy" persay. He tends to drink too much, shoot his mouth off too often, and is quite a bit of a lech. Yet at the end of the day, there might be something about him that tells a person that he's an alright fellow.

PICTURE:

UPDATED:

3/08/04

NAME:

Jarlosh M. Bedree

(Owner/Operator of the Twisted Root Tavern/Inn)]

TITLE(s):

Barkeep/Tavern Owner/Operator

Behind the Scenes:

Operates the tavern/inn and can often be persuaded to part with information for a small 'fee'. Local legends and stories are free.
Can sometimes be persuaded to part with especially potent 'firewater' from his personal stock.

TAVERN-INN PRICES
Lodgings (per person)available in Elmshade

ROOM QUALITY
● NOBLE/PRIVATE
    ■ With bath
    ■ With latrine

● COMMON

● POOR

● STABLE
    ■ Stall Floor
    ■ Loft
    Stable & Feed DAY
3 gp
+10 gp
+1 gp

10 sp

1 sp

4 cp
2sp
1 gp+ WEEK
18 gp
+60 gp
+6 gp

6 gp

4 sp

1 sp
7sp
MEAL (per person)
Banquet
Rich
Good
Common
Poor
Egg or fresh vegetable
Sweet cake
Meat for one meal
Meat pie
Porridge & Bread
Soup, cup
COST
20 gp
2 gp
9 sp
6 sp
2 sp
2 cp
4 cp
2 sp
2 sp
2 sp
1 sp

Difficulty to Obtain & Distance from Source = Rarity
Rarity modifies Base Prices (multiply base cost by Rarity Factor (RF) for Selling Price)

RF
8
4
2
2
2
2
64
2
64
64
64
2
64
1
16
16
2
2
4
8
8
8
8
16
2
1
1
32
8
8
8
16
8
32
Wine Carafe (qt.)
--- Straight = 6gp
--- Watered = 2gp
Glass
--- Straight = 2gp
--- Watered = 1gp
Cider/Mead
--- Mug 12 sp

WINES, CIDERS, MEADS
Arabellan Dry
Berduskan Dark
Blood Wine
Clarry
Evermead
Evershimmer
Fighting Cock Wine
Fire Wine
Halruaan Wine
Jalanthar Amber
Kaorph
Knee-Cracker Cider
Maerlathen Bluewine
Mead
Mintarn Wine
Mushroom Wine
Neverwinter Black Ice wine
Neverwinter Nectar
Pearls of the Moon Wine
Purple Hills Cider (Tethyr)
Saerloonian Glowfire
Saerloonian Special Vat
Saerloonian Topaz
Chondath Ice wine
Sluth
Spiced Wine
Table Wine
Tashlutan Dragons Tongue
Tethyrian Distilled Dragons Blood
Undermountain Alurlyath
Utterdark
Vilhon Cider
Westgate Ruby
Winter Wine

RF
8
1
8
8
2
1
2
2
16
1
32
1
16
4
64
64
64
64
1
1
2
64
2
4
4
4
8
16
2
1
32
32 Ales
--- Cup (pint) = 2sp
--- Jug (gal) = 14sp
Beers (pint)
--- Straight = 2 sp
--- Watered = 1 sp
Grog (pint) = 6 sp

ALES, BEERS, & GROGS
"Suzale"
Ale
Archenwood Stout
Ashaben Ale
Bitter Black
Bitterroot Beer
Black Boot Stout
Black Grog
Blackwater Stout
Butternut Beer
Dragon's Breath Beer
Elder Root Stout
Elminster's Choice
Flounder Beer
Golden Sands Basic
Golden Sands Brew
Golden Sands Gold
Golden Sands Orange
Highmoon Dark Beer
Highwater Ale
Iriaeboran North Brew
Luiren's Best
Luskan Black Ale
Old Dark Ale
Old One Eye
Old Smoke Ale
Purple Dragon Ale ("Suzale")
Shadowdale Ale
Slaker
Stout
Tanagyr's Stout
Tantul's Dark

RF
16
8
16
1
2
1
4
2
2
8
1
1
4
16 Brandy 50 gp
Whiskey 10 gp
Scotch 10 gp

SPIRITS & FORTIFIEDS
Almond Brandy - Mintarn
Almond Brandy - Moonshae
Best Old Mintarn Whiskey
Firebelly Whiskey
Fires of Mirabar Whiskey
Fruit Liqueurs
Lantan Blackthroat
Maiden's Kiss Brandy
Peach Smoothwater Liqueur
Rubyfire Liqueur
Sherry
Whiskey
Wyvern Whiskey
Zzar

RF
1
1
2
2
16
2
32
2 Moonshines 5gp
Rum 1 gp

EXOTIC DRINKABLES
Al & Tal's Slurpy Syrup
Elvenquisst
Evereskan Clearwater
Fool's Thirst Quencher
Guldathen Nectar
Rollrum
Tashlutan Amberthroat
Thorl Beldarakul

RF
16
8
32
4
1
8
64
8
16
16 1 Pound = 4 sp
CHEESES
Chessentan Lotus cheese
Death Cheese
Damarite Red
Elturian Grey
Farmer's Cheese
Green Calishite
Luiren Spring Cheese
Mist Cheese
Turmish Brick
Vilhon Blanc

RF
2
1
8
2
4
1
2
4 Loaf = 2 sp
BREADS
Blackbread
Crackers
Elven Bread
Fruitcakes
Gingerbread
Hard-Tack
Sourdough
Tarts

LOCATION:

Building 18 on the Elmshade Map

HISTORY:

Jarlosh arrived as one of the first founders of Elmshade and decided it was a prime place to build an Inn and Tavern. With very little help and his own strength and ingenuity, he built the Twisted Root Tavern/Inn and it has become the mainstay for the village locals and travellers, alike. He loves his Inn and loves the people he interacts with on a daily basis and anyone who has ever become belligerent or drunk and stupid enough to challenge him has soon found out that it's best to stay on his good side.

PERSONALITY:

Jarlosh is a beefy, bald middle-aged giant of a man with thick biceps from heavy lifting and a round belly from too much good food and ale. Like the main barmaid, Holga, he's also gruff on the outside and doesn't take any sh*t from anyone, although he's wise enough to know when to walk away from a fight. That hasn't happened very often, thanks to his intimidating presence and overall tough demeanor. Jarlosh doesn't care for Magic or those who use it, and has very strict rules about spell-casting inside the Twisted Root. In short, anyone who does so is thrown out, no ifs, ands or buts about it. Any trouble-makers in his Inn are swiftly dealt with, in one manner or another. He's actually a kind man, but has no patience for rudeness, stupidity or laziness and is always willing to voice his opinion. Those in search of information might do better by asking Holga, but Jarlosh is full of local legends and stories to entertain guests by the fire at night.

PICTURE:

UPDATED:

5/20/05

I know i'm not a manager but no one ever told me about this post. this comes in handy.

. When ever this whole war is over i wanted to know if Kaze survives if we can make a fruit orchard and if i can open Frost up a shop here. He can make magical equiptment. He is a blacksmith, but everything he makes is magic and i can make some very interesting things. I would like to know if that would be allowed. although that i don't so much care about frosts shop, but i would like a Fruit orchard for Kaze if that would be cool.

other ideas for buildings could be.

an alchemist shop (Components, Elements, potions, est.)

a general store (if we don't have one.)

library (if we don't have one)

and a money changer if need be

some of these we may have. i hope maybe i helped with some of these.

I first concieved him as a bartender capable of creating a neutral atmoshpere for characters to mingle in where the more powerful pc's were forced to roleplay with lesser leveled players as equals. Jarlosh has the means to detect and counter most any magical or psionic power that he (the DM) deems disruptful.

He is strictly a player NPC used for rolepaying or as a Dm tool. Anyone can use him but no-one can abuse him.

Hailing from a shrouded plannar background Jarlosh has a history steeped in interplanetary commerce. For years he was a worm-hole trader plying his wares on the ten planes of the astral sea between Sigil and the Outer and Inner planes between the Primes. The leather necked merchant has seen his share of action because he also owned and operated the massive Crossroads Inn located in the lower wards of Sigil where he commisioned trade routes into the various realms. Nevermind that the Crossroads was also the chosen seat of the local thieves and organized assasins guild.

Eventually leaving the intense life of a trader house coucil Baron he dissappeared with an immense sum of money and goods to some unknown locale where he lives the life of a seeming simpleton. Tales of Jarlosh beating a Tannari Prince nearly to death with his own scepter are still unproven to this day.

Beneath his thick oaken bar top a few remnants of those times remain. Hidden away in his personal dimensional vault he can conjure up several items: like his octagon barelled arquebus of psionic/magical disjunction (designed to destroy/nullify all psi and magical powers/items in its blast range and destroty them permanently) and brass knuckles of spell storing (contains an mass-load of granted spells and powers from some pleased clients including Krenteel the White and high Bishop Tarbus Izzlerod)

It is rumored that Jarlosh's lineage can be traced back to an outlaw raiding orc tribe that assaulted the longshore pioneers of the ethreal shores. Dark times indeed for that area.

This may explain his natural mix of above average strength and incredible willpower. A mixing of those bloods have produced some interesting offspring.

Jarlosh has shown an uncanny resistance to anything affecting his constitution or mental faculty. No amount of alcohol seems to impair him nor does any form of suggestion seem to sway his decisions. Everything from vampires, to dwarven lagers, to psionic warriors have little to no affect on the barrell chested barkeep of Elmshade.

Any conversation asking about any past martial relation will be quickly and abrubtly ended by any number of means. It is the one thing his wagging tongue doesn't carry on about.

The last person to show up to the Twisted Root Tavern with wanted posters from th Inner rings describing a man called Godfather Ivan dissappeared without a trace.

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