Tarod

Guild enforcer. Tied to every one of the party.

Tarod is a Guild enforcer from Murgrog. He bribed Brawn and helped set him up, and he also worked with Hanzt during their Guild years. He is one of the people the party would rather not owe anything to.

The Voice Behind Brelka

The party heard him before they ever saw him, through a breach in a wall beneath Hammerfall. Brelka was screaming at him that her friends were dead, that he had wanted them dead, that all of it was what he wanted. His answer came slow and cutting. How disappointing she was, when he had thought she might rise above her weakness and find a place in their order. How fitting that a ruined temple should suit her failure.

Prove yourself. If you survive, perhaps you will be worth my time.

Then he split the air with a crack of power and was gone into black fog.

The Cells

They heard him first the second time too. He came down the row of iron doors dragging Vorgra along them, Gunnar's own weapon, and banging it into whatever it met so that nobody would be asleep when he started talking. He knew each of them, and he had something for each.

"Five years in a cell and you found peace. Let's see if it holds in this one."

"Pathogen. You cut the braid and shaved the beard. You still flinch the same."

"Too much Ork for the Elves, too much Elf for the Orks. We put you with the Orks. Somebody had to guess."

"Fine bow. Tyr's work, I am told. It will fetch more than you ever would have."

He enjoyed himself.