Grimbeard

Grimbeard
Role	Innkeeper (formerly a pirate captain)
Race / kind	Dwarf
Affiliation	The party (ally)
Seat / location	Iceverf
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-b#164]

Grimbeard is a dwarf tavern-keeper in Iceverf and a retired pirate captain who serves the party as an ally and a source of the city's political gossip. ^{[heralds-b#241 · last-winter#193]}

Overview

Grimbeard is an old, retired pirate captain who now keeps a tavern and hears the politics circulating around the town; he is an ally to the party. ^{[heralds-b#241]} He is a dwarf. ^{[last-winter#193 · last-winter#194]}

History

Weary of the pirate's life and unable to find anything but misery at sea, Grimbeard gave it up and settled in Iceverf. ^{[last-winter#193]}

Tavern

Accounts of which tavern Grimbeard owns differ between sources. In one, he bought and settled into The Broken Crown after arriving in Iceverf. ^{[last-winter#192 · last-winter#193]} In another, he owns Grimbeard's Tavern in the Pighook district, known for its diverse patronage and cheap drinks. ^{[heralds-b#164]}

Needs a decision: Is Grimbeard's tavern The Broken Crown or Grimbeard's Tavern in Pighook?^{[last-winter#194 · heralds-b#164]}

Role with the party

Grimbeard is allied with the party and passes along what he hears of the town's politics. ^{[heralds-b#241]}

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for Grimbeard that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Grimbeard so they cannot be mistaken for canon.

Related pages

• Iceverf — the city where he settled and keeps his tavern
• Pighook — the slum district where Grimbeard's Tavern is said to stand
• Grimbeard's Tavern — the tavern credited to him in the Heralds of the Cycle sources
• The Broken Crown — the tavern credited to him in the Aenarch: Last Winter sources
• the party — the party he serves as an ally and information source
• Graymond Library — subject of a rumor he is said to have passed to the party
• Black Kraken — his unconfirmed former pirate ship