Mal'rock

Mal'rock is a trading village on the edge of Shaema, placed between the banks of Gaema and Si'garos, close to where the rivers meet. It has a year round population of ~60, but that number fluctuates depending on the season (some hunters/gatherersspend most of the year roaming the swamps), or ritual day (on some such days the number quadruples).

Characters

Dinar Jurg

Dinar is a human blacksmith, almost morbidly muscled and covered with burns old and new. He wears cloth pants and a leather apron. As far as can be seen, he is absolutely hairless. His wrinkled face seems to be set in a permanent scowl, but when he smiles ome can not help but to like him. Shaema is poor in metal and has no skilled blacksmiths. Thus Dinars services are well sought after. His two powerful horses dragging the ingenious six wheeled portable smithy are a welcome sight each ju-ju fest. Dinar designed and built the giant wagon himself. It is stable even on very rough terrain, but nothing on wheels can travel deeper into the Shaema marshes. He is accompanied by his 9 year old daugher Maria. Her white face and light hair are a great contrast to her permanently grimy and sooty father. Dinar takes great care towards his daughter. He makes sure she is always clean, and lacks for nothing. This makes him more proud than does his skill as a master blacksmith. He is also skilled with a sword and fears not traveling with only his daughter. His wagon is designed to deal with would be robbers.

Rudi Daan

Typicly of merchants, this bulky giant of a man wears his gray hair and moustaches in long intricate braids. His bastard son Ryali is under his aprenticeship. A quiet 18 year old man, he does not share his father's size or strong voice. Under Rudi's employ there are also his personal guards, Marco and Poule, and Licu, an elven Shaema ranger he hires whenever his trade brings him here. Rudi comes to Mal'rock 3 times a year and always brings with him two wagons filled with meal, salted pork, cloth, dry fruits, paper and ink, and leaves with smoked fish, crab, herbs, medicine, mead, precious wood and furs.