PERSONAE · THE VALE

Hask Orn

aka Hask the Buyer

Valenfeld's smith and the town's only Old Work salvage-buyer — she'll shoe your horse and weigh your scrap temple-bronze in the same afternoon, and never asks which vault it came from.

Hask keeps a forge going for the ordinary work — shoes, hinges, mended plowshares, the odd blade — because ordinary work pays steady, and steady is what a town this size can afford. What actually turns a profit is the scale in the back corner, where she weighs whatever Old Work scrap comes in off the roads and the ruins and pays by the pound, no questions about the vault it came from and no promises about what it's worth to whoever buys it off her next. She's good at both jobs and honest about the second one only in the narrowest sense: her prices are fair, her curiosity about your business is zero, and she keeps a jar of green dust-stained rags behind the forge that she won't burn and won't explain, because she watched what the Lung did to the last man who brought her a vault-scrap job lot without washing his hands first.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Human

ROLE

smith and Old Work salvage-buyer

LOCATION

Valenfeld

Connected

ValenfeldPLACE · Hask is Valenfeld's smith.Old WorkCONCEPT · Hask is the town's only Old Work salvage-buyer.Tobb FallwickCHARACTER · The two run Valenfeld's only shops and keep each oth…Tobb FallwickCHARACTER · Tobb carries some of what House Vandahl owes Hask on…ValenfeldPLACE · Keeps the Valenfeld forge; shoes horses by day and w…Corb TollerCHARACTER · Re-rims Corb's cartwheels for nothing and calls it p…

Game Data (1)

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data/content/npcs.json

idhask_orn

canon_refcharacter.vf-hask-orn

nameHask Orn

genderfemale

racehuman

factioncommoner

regionthe_vale

zone_idthe-vale

health68

disposition45

greetingIf it is iron, set it by the forge. If it is Old Work, set it on the scale and wash your hands first. I shoe horses, mend tools, and pay fair weight.

behavioridle

interior_onlyyes

merchant{"kind":"smith","base_gold":260,"buys":["weapon","armor","ammo","tool","material","misc"],"stock":["miners_pick","iron_arrows"]}

topics{"smith work":"Shoes, hinges, plowshares, blades. Ordinary iron pays steady, and steady keeps coal in the bin. Use the forge if your hands know the work. Ask if they do not.","old work":"Temple-bronze, vault fittings, any sound Old Work scrap. I weigh it clean and pay by the pound. Where you found it is your business. What it did to your gloves is mine.","green dust":"Wash your hands before I weigh a green lot. The dust gets into the lungs and stays there. I have watched that lesson taught once. Once was enough.","tobb fallwick":"Tobb knows the price of every nail in town and three sizes no other smith admits exist. He pays his accounts. Eventually."}

bounty_on_assault70

bounty_on_kill1000

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesHuman

rolesmith and Old Work salvage-buyer

locationplace.vallenfield-town

affiliations—

disposition45

secretsShe keeps unburned dust-stained rags from a bad lot she bought two years ago, as a reminder to always make sellers wash their hands and empty their pockets before she'll weigh their scrap.

voice_notesBlunt, unhurried, weighs her words like she weighs bronze. Doesn't gossip, but doesn't lie either.

All Relationships (8)

located_in

→Valenfeld — Hask is Valenfeld's smith.
→Valenfeld — Keeps the Valenfeld forge; shoes horses by day and weighs Old Work scrap when it comes in.

references

→Old Work — Hask is the town's only Old Work salvage-buyer.
←Sexton Orlaith Cindergrave — She buys her grave-iron from his forge and asks, every time, where the older metal comes from.

ally_of

→Tobb Fallwick — The two run Valenfeld's only shops and keep each other's confidences.
←Tobb Fallwick — Tobb carries some of what House Vandahl owes Hask on his own books too.
→Corb Toller — Re-rims Corb's cartwheels for nothing and calls it practice, which neither man believes.

disputes

→Tobb Fallwick — They disagree, loudly and for years, over what a straight nail is worth and who sets the price in this town.

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