Fullmen’s Backstory for the Ta’Vaalor Dock Foreman

Fullmen shares the backstory of Ta’Vaalor’s Dock Foreman – it seems he won the contest for the foreman’s design and messaging back in the day!

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Category: Towns
Topic: Ta’Vaalor

Date: 09/09/2017 01:17 AM CDT

From: JUDKINSC

Subj: Ta'Vaalor Dock Foreman

Hi All,

Since we’re all gathering around Ta’Vaalor for the events, I wanted to reminisce a bit about an old fellow that you might have seen around town, who spun into existence not long after the town itself, in Nov/Dec of 2005. The Mistydeep River dock foreman!

Way back that year, GM Bernt put up a contest to design him. I wrote his story and actions and Bernt did the original coding on him. A few of them have been altered and added to since then, which is awesome.

He’s got a ton of ambient scripts, actions, and things you can ask him about, and I think his original history may have been forgotten or perhaps was only ever in the contest notes, so here it is!

History:

His name is Kashael Merwythe. The foreman was shipwrecked on rocks far to the East in his sailing youth, and rescued by a fair young girl, who revealed herself to him as Niima. He spent more than a year in her company before another ship passed that he could hail, and she ordered him home. When he returned to Ta’Vaalor, he sailed the ocean for many more years in search of her again, sometimes taking risks which endangered the crew and vessel, in hopes of being rescued again.

These risks eventually caused the merchant guild to ban him from sailing on any of their vessels, but because of his knowledge of the sea and the shipping lanes, they gave him his current position as dock foreman, in which he has been for longer than the memory of any but Elves.

The hard work of sailing has left him burlier than most Elves, and his habits are somewhat loud and unrefined. He still fears the wrath of Charl that stranded him the first time, but his love for Charl’s daughter has not diminished over the years. He is most often good-natured and joking, occasionally harassing passing adventurers into giving him a hand loading and tying up the ships.

—> Go ask him about the sea, Charl, Niima, dock, tattoo, and halflings. (The crates question was added later for warrior training.) You can also wave, bow, and smile at him. He’ll react differently to women than to men. Also, take a look at some of the ambient scripts, which are pretty cool–there’s about a dozen and I won’t spoil them by posting them here, but you can PM me.

Cheers,
~Player of Fulmen Soulhammer