Ordovai Brasshorn, the Caravan Master

NPC · Minotaur · quest giver

by Codex

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Class: Caravan master of the Brasshorn Train (Fighter: Battle Master, 7th level)

Race: Minotaur

Role: quest giver

Stats Ac: 16

Stats Cr: 5

Stats Hp: 76

Status: alive

Description

Ordovai Brasshorn is the caravan master who owns the only route across the Sablewaste that has never lost a wagon. Nine feet of scarred muscle in a sun-bleached drover's coat, he walks the length of his train twice a night, touching each axle as if taking a pulse. He hires guards, cooks and outriders at every waystation and pays in water rather than coin, because water is the one thing out here that cannot be counterfeited. Every table eventually needs a caravan master who can move the party acr

Appearance

Nine feet tall, dust-grey hide gone white at the muzzle, one horn capped in brass and the other sawn flat. Wears a drover's coat stitched from forty different waystation blankets, each one a debt paid or a debt owed.

Motives

Keep the Brasshorn Train unbroken. Ordovai has crossed the Sablewaste two hundred and six times without losing a single wagon, and he has begun to believe the streak itself is the only thing holding the desert off.

Personality

Counts aloud under his breath at all times - wagons, waterskins, people - and cannot stop himself finishing a count once it has started. Interrupt him and he begins again from one, visibly furious about it.

Voice

Low, unhurried and always a little too quiet, so people lean in to hear him. Says 'we' when he means the caravan and 'I' only when he is refusing something.