Tolek Varn
He sells water like it’s life — because it is. And he knows what you’ll pay before you start begging.
Name: The Lantern Seeker
Race: Dwarf
Class/Role: Desert Trader / Smuggler of Water & Truth
Appearance: Tolek is a sun-scorched veteran of the salt roads. His skin is leathery and pale from years beneath wide-brimmed suncloth hats, his beard braided into thick, salt-crusted ropes. His traveling robes are patched and practical, dyed the color of sand and alkali dust. He always wears a reinforced backplate water tank with three spouts and a pressure valve. A wide utility belt clinks with copper tokens, water keys, hidden blades, and measuring tubes. His eyes are pale blue and calculating — like cloudless sky that never gives rain.
Backstory
Born beneath the brine-mines of a dried sea, Tolek worked water before he walked. He rose from well-rat to caravan master by trading not goods, but control — over what people needed most. In the parched frontier, Tolek became a legend: he could find water where there was none, but never for free. His trade routes shift constantly, his maps are sold only by the inch, and he’s known to sell the same sip of water to three buyers if it gets him what he wants. Recently, he’s been spotted in lands growing drier by the month — and no one believes that’s a coincidence.
