James Wimbledoun

"Come in, come in. Welcome to the Fragrant Pint. Haven't seen you before, so this one's on the house. Don't worry about the teeth. Hey, tell me where you're going and there's another one in it for ya."

— James, to a courier from House Ashdowne

James Wimbledoun is a kindly man, standing seven feet tall as one of the Orcs. He is now a foster child, living southwest of Ardingly near the fork in the main road. He helps manage the Fragrant Pint, a roadside inn for travelers and couriers.
James does not know his parents, nor does he know the name his mother gave him. He was born as the son of the Varanok chieftain Rag'Zal, and was named Rin'Zal by his mother Garn'ul. It was not long after his birth that Bergic forces arrived at their tribe, seeking to hire the clan's warriors as mercenaries to conduct raids on the Autumnvale. Chieftain Rag'Zal was reluctant to wage war on their neighbors and refused, wishing for a more peaceful life for his firstborn. Outraged, the Bergic and Lagonan soldiers kidnapped the infant Rin'Zal in retaliation, meaning to throw the chieftain's son off the mountainside. In the ensuing chaos, a sympathetic soldier wrapped the child in an ornate Lagonan cloak and left him on the side of the road. Cold and hungry, Rin'Zal was abandoned; this was until George and Elizabeth Wimbledoun, an Ulnosti couple fleeing Briar Glen, stumbled upon him, naming him James Wimbledoun and raising him as their son. During his upbringing, he lived the life of a man of Ulnost, learning the language and customs as if he was born there.
For most of his early adulthood, James managed the Fragrant Pint as his foster parents grow older. This changed not long after the Argent Company halted the Great Frost. James kept the cloak he was wrapped in as a child, as it is his only connection to who his family could be. As fate would have it, one traveler to his tavern happened to be Vesser Rantari Highmore, the Grandmaster of the Councils of Briar Glen. Vesser is in possession of an identical cloak to James, and offered to help the orc find his family in return for membership in the Argent Company, gathering information from patrons about Bergic movements near the Autumnvale.
Today, James continues his life managing the Fragrant Pint, and is one of the Eastern contacts working for the Argent Company.

James, circa 430 AU.

Species

Orcs

Year of Birth

397 AU 33 Years old

Sex

Male

Height

7'

Aligned Organization

Argent Company