Red

Red Town Solhaven Gender male Race giantman Job Merchant Shop Name Ouslanders Garb

Red McKrieg is one of the two proprietors of Ouslanders Garb. The other is Turask Maldib. Red sells traditional clothing and gear associated with the giantman clans.

Description

Tall even by Giantkin standards, Red McKrieg wears a head of hair and a full beard that make the reason for his nickname obvious.  Although not as powerfully built as some of his race, his size and trim physique make snide comments about his linen shirt or great kilt seem unwise.

Ambients

Red steps over and picks up a kilt that was left in a heap by an earlier customer.  With a surprising efficiency of motion, he refolds the kilt and places it back on the stack.

Wearing a flowing mane of flame red hair, and looks that mark her undeniably as the proprietor's daughter, an attractive young woman with bright green eyes and an impish smile emerges from a doorway at the rear of the shop.  Pausing just long enough to set down an armful of new sporrans and to hand her father a steaming mug of tea, she kisses him on the cheek and vanishes back through the door.  Glaring about the shop, Red's expression suggests that any comment at this point is probably not worth the risk.

"Ha' ye seen that highroad?" asks Red. "That's whot Giantkin c'n do wi' the right leader.  It's a shame ol' Telimnar's reign was ended by that curse."

"C'n ye believe it?  A woman come in here the other day, an' she thought the great kilts was cloth waitin' ta be sewed yet!" remarks Red with a mixture of derision and disbelief.

Wringing out a rag until it's barely damp, Red makes a circuit of the shop, lifting items and wiping the shelves clean of any dust that may have settled since his last round.

Red retrieves a black tam that wound up on the floor and sets it back on the shelf.

"Some folks is surprised ta find one o' our race mindin' shop," comments Red, "but ye know, the Issimir Ogre Clan's bin traders forever," as he taps his clan badge.

"Ye know some from the Clans has took ta life in the Sea o' Fire," says Red.  "That's why we carry garb fer dune walkers too," he adds as he nods towards the shop's side room.

Behind the Scenes

While "Mac" and "Mc" are Scots and Irish respectively for "son of", "Krieg" is German and means "war." Red's surname proclaims him to be "the son of war."