{"id":4484,"date":"2020-01-01T06:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2020-01-01T06:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:44:14","slug":"jigu-bardcreek-male-halfling-arcanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/jigu-bardcreek-male-halfling-arcanist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigu Bardcreek, halfling Arcanist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jigu Bardcreek sipped his ale, sat in the pub, eyed the usual patrons, and waited for something to happen.<\/p>\n

There was no guarantee, of course, that anything would, and often when it did, “something” was only vaguely amusing.\u00a0 But if one was patient, and one had had enough ale, sometimes “something” was worth waiting for.<\/p>\n

To be honest, “something” had a pretty low bar to clear.\u00a0 Roderic’s Cove was not exactly a center for, well, anything.\u00a0 There wasn’t much crime.\u00a0 There wasn’t much culture.\u00a0 There was a fair amount of\u00a0 commerce, thanks to the docks and the fact that Roderic’s Cove was the closest seaport for anybody living upstream on the Chavali River. It was that same commerce that had kept Jigu employed for several months now.\u00a0 Deliveries, on an irregular but relatively frequent basis, had been sufficient to eke out a living. It wasn’t a guarantee of elevenses every day, but it made it possible more often than not.<\/p>\n

He had been in Roderic’s Cove for several months now, even though he’d originally considered his stay “temporary”.\u00a0 He was a favored courier, because he had a reputation for honesty and trustworthiness.\u00a0 \u00a0His keen ability to appraise items on the spot, had more than once saved an employer from being cheated.<\/p>\n

He was pretty sure that nobody in town knew he had also studied spells and wizardry.\u00a0 It was not particularly a secret, but it just didn’t come up in conversation, and he didn’t really know enough to consider it a profession.\u00a0 It’s not like he was some sort of bar magician, sawing people in half.\u00a0 His spells tended to be utilitarian\u2014for a courier, like dancing lantern or, in a pinch, vanish.<\/p>\n

Jigu was most recently from Korvosa, nominal home of the Sihedron Hero Trask Feltherup.\u00a0 Trask’s father has a home and business there, but Trask himself has yet to truly settle down.\u00a0 Jigu had some theories about how sorcerers and wizards are more similar than many think, and his investigations and research have led him to conversations with Trask himself on a couple of occasions.\u00a0 In fact, Jigu had managed to work magic in a way, according to Trask, that few if any have done before.\u00a0 \u00a0He found Trask impulsive and less…disciplined than Jigu likes his world, but\u00a0 he was still a source of both inspiration and information.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 it was Jigu’s consultations with Trask that led to Jigu’s\u00a0 fascination with things Thassilonian.\u00a0 The tsunami wave at Magnimar’s shores a few years ago convinced him that the Thassilonian past was still a clear and present danger.<\/p>\n

He believed he could learn more about Thassilonia and Thassilonian lore by visiting Magnimar and visiting with other experts.\u00a0 Travel takes money, though, and he’d paused here in Roderic’s Cove longer than he’d expected.\u00a0 A one-way job with a delivery caravan had brought him here, certainly off the beaten path if one were going to Magnimar, but…it’s the kind of place, he mused, he wished he’d grown up in.\u00a0 He’d kind of got stuck here, but really, he didn’t mind it so much.\u00a0 It wasn’t a bad place to be stuck. Plenty of time yet to head south through Sandpoint\u2014an interesting Thassilonian place in its own right.<\/p>\n

But not tonight.\u00a0 Not just yet.<\/p>\n

He ordered another pint of ale, because his observation was,\u00a0 the more ale that was flowing, the more likely something interesting would happen. And there were no deliveries tonight or tomorrow that would make it a bad idea.\u00a0 So Jigu Bardcreek sipped his ale, sat in the pub, eyed the usual patrons, and waited for something to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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