Turask

Turask Town Solhaven Gender male Race half-elf Job Clothier Shop Name Ouslanders Garb

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

Description

Dark complected, yet clearly of elven extraction, Turask Maldib stands straight and tall, a benign smile on his face.  Wearing a white turban, an intricately embroidered green vest over a tan doublet and bloused red silk pantaloons tucked into low-cut orange boots, Turask appears to know quality, but nothing of fashion.

Ambients

After taking a couple steps, Turask stops with a frown on his face.  Leaning against the counter, he removes his left boot and empties a handful of sand from it, muttering, "You would think by now..."

Turask nods and smiles confidently as customers look over the goods he has for sale.

Turask digs a grapeleaf-wrapped bundle out of his belt pouch.  Unrolling the leaves, he extracts a large candied sandflea, then rerolls the bundle and returns it to his pouch.  Turning his attention to a ledger, he absently plucks the wing casings, legs and mandibles off the sandflea and slowly bites through the insect's abdomen.  As he continues reading the ledger, he pops the head and thorax into his mouth and crunches away contentedly.

"If you would like very good food such as those who dwell amongst the sands of the Sea of Fire eat, then seek out the Pasha's Pavilion which is south of the canal," advises Turask with a wink.

Turask nods and says, "All of the waters that are so close, all of the green of living plants that surround you... You do not appreciate such abundance as one who has lived with the sands and known an oasis as salvation from a certain death."

"These beasthandlers are very brutes.  They bring yierka so far from the sands and the heat they love, and for what...?" asks Turask of no one in particular.  "For coins, that is all, for mere coins.  They are blessed with the understanding of the yierka, and yet they abuse it," he concludes, shaking his head sadly.

Behind the Scenes

"Maldib" may be derived from the Turkish and Arabic word "مَال‎" or "māl", which means "goods" or "property" and from the Arabic "ذِئْب" or "ḏiʾb", which means "golden jackal" or "wolf".