Post by Ringulf on Oct 14, 2010 19:31:03 GMT -5
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Profession: Tinker
Appearance:
Gender: Male
Profession: Tinker
Appearance:
Yule is just under 6 feet tall he is stocky almost portly. He has silver/white hair beard and mustache, which he braids. He has bright sparkly blue eyes and a ruddy complexion He looks at first glance old due to his hair but when you look at his face it seems that he looks much younger. He is also quite robust physically due to all the exercise he gets in walking.Personality:
Most of his garments are in the Teutlandian style with Skandian overtones and decoration.
He wears a green tunic trimmed in a gold pattern with dark red breeches. He wears short brown boots, which are wrapped at the top in white fur leggings laced with long brown leather strips.
Over his tunic he wears a white fur vest with reindeer antler toggles. Over which is worn his long gray, hooded travelers cloak with white fur trim. He tops this outfit with a brown leather stocking cap trimmed in the same white fur and affixed to his hanging point is a pewter bell that tinkles when he walks.
He belts his tunic with a carved brown belt fastened by an intricately patterned pewter buckle from Celtica.
On the left of his belt he has a brown leather belt pouch. on the right side is a belt frog where he keeps his Musk ox mace and over his left shoulder stretching to his right hip he has a larger tan leather bag that he keeps many items including his canvas roll of tools specific to his trade.
He carries a large green canvas sack with brown leather trim decorated in gold filigree work.
He uses a strange item as a walking stick it is a spiraled Ivory horn, which he will tell you if asked is from a unicorn and has magical powers of protection but is in reality the horn of a Narwhal; it is topped by a small hammer/pick combination that is shaped like two animal heads back to back. The front is a growling polar bear and the back is a bull walrus with its tusks outstretched to form the pick. He carries a mace whose handle is also made from Ivory but it is that of a walrus and intricately carved. The silver steel head is shaped in the form of four musk oxen formed in a ring with their horns outward as though they were protecting their young. Around his neck is looped a lanyard of some sort of braided leather holding a pouch like sheath of seal fur holding a utility knife.
Yule is very friendly and exceedingly joyful, he jokes, teases and smiles allot, laughs often and is known to burst into song at the drop of a hat. He loves children, is almost magically attuned to animals and is a tremendous flirt with women of all ages. Peddling and crafting seem to be his passion but he also loves to walk (which is very appropriate given his profession) but on his walks he becomes what he calls an "irrepressible observer" He loves to watch and study nature and is quite knowledgeable about his birds and beasts. He also knows much of the flora of Araluen as well. He keeps a life journal in which he scribbles notes and draws picture and sometimes he will capture a particular person animal or scene with his charcoal or silver sticks. When he does quite often he will give these away as gifts.History:
Yule Valkotuka emerged in Araluen not too long ago and has become an occasional visitor to all of Araluen. One will never know were or when he will show up or were he is going, for that matter it is not certain if he does himself. He peddles his wares from town to town fife to fife all around the country. He very rarely ever stays at an in though he is known to visit taverns here and there to sit in the common room and share stories, news and gossip as his travels give him a wide range of information from all over. Rather than stay in these establishments he tends to stay with common folk who extend their hospitality, a bed and a meal and is off again. He breaks this pattern now and again when he wants or needs to make something. It is then that he seeks out a craftsman or merchant and finds lodging with them for a short time and uses their workspace to craft. he finds cobblers blacksmiths, tailors and the like and oddly enough wherever he stays something is found afterwards fixed or mended and normally made whole and new.Additional Information:
Not much more is known about him except for the fact that he is not originally from Araluen, speaks many different languages though does not seem to have an accent himself and as jolly and lighthearted as he is he is no easy mark for a robber or highwayman as several have found out much to their dismay.
Yule walks everywhere he goes and is now wandering in Northern Araluen and enjoying the autumn of which he is very fond.