"Nah, the city’s run by the guilds…well, not officially, but the Mayor and Sheriff both know who to listen to. Glad I don’t live there.

There was nobody running this side of the river before. Free, but not safe. Bandits come through? Hide the girls in the cellar, ‘yes sir this, yes sir that, would you like a barrel of salted mutton for the road.’” He spits to the side… then eyes your weapons and armor and decides to change the topic.

“It’s safer to range farther now and leave the family at home so I can go in to town more than once a year – we’re doing a lot better than my pappy’s day.”