Editing Beneath Castle Everglory: THE TOWN OF LAND’S END (section)

==Mayor Orin Bladebearer==

Orin Bladebearer is mayor for life and has looked after the town to the best of his ability for the last 60 years.  He is an old man now, tall and imposing with a long mane of white hair flowing down his back, but at 84 years of age, is not the warrior he once was.  Orin will be pleased to entertain adventurers at his home because he still thinks of himself as an adventurer and yearns to trade tales.  In his youth, he adventured with the mage Tessamon, the priest Ordo and the thief Grimsby, and together they were as daring a band as the world has ever seen.  According to Orin, it was he and his party who built Castle Everglory after saving the town by driving the Orcs from Orcwood.  They built the castle, with labor from the townsfolk, to make sure that the Orcs could never hold Orcwood again.  The townspeople were so grateful that they made him permanent mayor.  Given half a chance, Orin will take the PCs out to the town graveyard to visit the graves of his old friends.  Tessamon’s marble headstone reads “Tessamon of Whitfield.  The fire never dies.”  Ordo’s stone reads “Brother Ordo.  The Rock endures”.  Grimsby’s reads “Grimsby Findle.  Terror of the Orks”.

Talking to Orin Bladebearer can be tricky.  He loves to glory in his past triumphs and will approve of the idea of the PCs confronting the Orcs just as he and his friends did so long ago, but he will not appreciate it if the PCs point out that Orin and his friends didn’t actually achieve anything.

Perhaps the trickiest thing about talking to Orin is that he insists on using different names for things than everyone else in town does.  After he and his friends “saved” the town sixty years ago, they renamed many local features, and Orin will get angry with anyone who uses the old names instead of the “proper” names.  The town is not called “Land’s End”, it is called “Grimsby”, after he who was martyred in battle with the Orcs.  The forest is not called “Orcwood”, it is called “The Forest of Tessemon”.  The creek is not called “Coldwater Creek”, it is called “Ordo’s Stand”.  Other townsfolk try to remember to use these names if within ear-shot of Orin.  If they forget, they get a tongue-lashing from the old man.