Joseph Silverhand

Joseph Silverhand is a retired merchant and minor noble of Sealance who lives in Sidewind. He lives in his family’s merchant mansion but envies the nobles that get to live in even bigger manors, like those in the countryside near Bridgetown and the Earthiara, his neighbors.
He is 1.60m-ish, bald, with a foody belly and a twirly mustache, in his 60s. He has very nice clothes either purple or deep blue, and always carries a bordeaux merchant mantle with silver trims. When outside he has red gloves and a small rigid cylindrical red merchant hat, even in the hottest days of Sidewind.
Bubbly, naïve, good with numbers, less in social situations, foody and self-proclaimed patron of the arts (would like to set up an art funding school but never actually does so). He's also stingy with money, even if he spends more than average in safety mechanisms for his workers and pays everyone quite well, and while talking a lot about how cool the adventuring life is and sounds like, he much more likes the comfort of his own life. He plays the victim often, quiting how bad and miserable his life his (especially while having problems and especially when talking with people that could bring solutions).
He owns Shimmerwell and the nearby silver mine, which recenly had to shut down because the miners heard scary noises in the deepest cave, with a couple of workers actually disappearing. He is worried sick about losing money with this problem at the mines, especially if it interrupts mining operations for too long.

He has multiple house servants (Nadine, 50s halfling cook, short red-hair, Robert, human 30s maid, dark hair in two braids, and his brother Billy, human 30s gardener) and a butler, Faba.
A khalimedi woman in her 40s, Faba has ebony-colored skin and light-brown eyes. She dresses in grey and white comfortable travel clothes with a hood, and carries two shortswords on her back. She is treated more as a friend and confidant than a servant, lives with her family in Sidewind (husband, two daughters, 3 and 5) and is a former adventurer, now acting also as Joseph’s bodyguard. She and Joseph met 20 years ago in a tavern in Khal'areid - Joseph was boasting his adventuring skill while drunk with some nobles of the area, and somehow managed to convince them (and himself) that he could slay a manticore by himself if they would have given him a sword. The morning after, Joseph half-panicked during breakfast in the inn he was staying as, and to make him stop crying out loud she went to him to ask what was his problem. Long story short, he hired her to fight the manticore for him in order to save his honor. She went and did it, but to her surprise, he then was honest with the nobles that "tricked" him and admitted it was her to have slain the manticore. He was impressed by her skills and adventuring life, and she was impressed of his honesty, something she thought rare in merchants. Mostly done with her adventuring life anyway, she became his bodyguard and moved to Sidewind.