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Profiles from Hugh Cook's Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
Category: Profiles
Bucks Cat Bucks Cat: a tall man with a wrestler's build; black hair; ebony skin; a knife-scar grinning on his throat. Born on Island Talsh in Sponge Sea. After capture in slaving raid, worked for many years in...
Drake Douay Name: Dreldragon Drakedon Douay. Alias: Drake (meaning, in the Ligin of Stokos, 'pumpkin'. Occupation: swordsmith's apprentice. Status: criminal on the run. Description: a nuggety fair-haired...
Garash Name: Garash. Occupation: wizard. Status: apprentice to Phyphor, though his training is completed. Description: stout grey-robed individual with bulging eyes, small scruffy beard and smallpox-scarred...
Jon Arabin Name: Jon Arabin. Alias: Warwolf. Occupation: pirate-trader. Status: master-mariner; ship-owner; large-scale debtor; husband of Leela, Waru, Verona, Silobeth, Esylan, Tarawen, Gleneth, Parazela,...
King Tor Name: Parry Iklemass Tinklebeth Terrorjaw Tor. (NB: by law, none may address the king by any of his three first names, on pain of death.) Birthplace: Cam. Occupation: king. Status: absolute ruler of...
Miphon Name: Miphon. Birthplace: Driftwood Islands. Occupation: wizard. Status: Minor wizard of the order of Nin, with limited powers to hear and control the minds of wild things. Description: slender man of...
Penelope Flute Name: Penelope Flute. Birthplace: Dalar ken Halvar. Occupation: priestess of an Evolutionary cult. Status: large-scale debtor. Description: woman of Frangoni race, built to a truly magnificent scale....
Phyphor Name: Phyphor. Birthplace: Galsh Ebrek. Occupation: wizard. Status: Master wizard of the order of Arl, with powers over light and fire. Description: very old gentleman with scarred beardless chin,...
Shabble Name: Shabble. Place of Manufacture: Nadokov (a city on the planet Sendak IV, a part of the Musorian Empire). Occupation: High Priest of the Cult of Cockroach. Status: messiah. Description: a...
Smeralda Name: Smeralda. Status: beast of burden. Description: patient grey four-legged animal burdened with books, blankets, manuscripts, herbs, tent, quilts, cooking pots, fish hooks, fishing lines, mosquito...