Tarvo Earthblade

Tarvo Earthblade

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Full name:	Tarvo Geraldo Earthblade
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Birthplace:	Gaia's Navel, Tasnica, Mana Dimension
Sex:	Male
Race:	Mana Goblin
Hair:	Rust Red
Eyes:	Black
Height:	4'7"
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Known skills:	Tarvo is a skilled alchemist, and is trained in first aid as a GA Field Medic.
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Motto:	"We found the Rod of Thanatos."

Tarvo Earthblade was born in the Goblin ghettos of Gaia's Navel. His was a life lived swimming against the current of prejudice and distrust, under the ever-watchful and often overly suspicious eye of Dwarven rule. Where most Goblins would have been content to keep to themselves in the slums of the Dwarven underground, Tarvo decided he wanted to ascend. He is not especially strong for a Goblin, but his intelligence is above average and he took to the science of mixing potions like a fish takes to water. So, he took up the life of a travelling merchant, hoping that his alchemical skill would make him the money he needed to live the Tasnican Dream.

Apprenticed to a Neko salesman, who insisted on being called Master Whiskers, Tarvo learned the finer points of Tasnican entrepreneurship. Not the posh stock tickers and dark, smoky meeting chambers of Centwerp Capitalism -- Whiskers taught Tarvo the one-on-one, haggling, brutal man-to-man price gouging sales warfare of the small businessman in Tasnica. The lessons learned under Whiskers have never been forgotten by the shrewd little Goblin: 1) Money is power, 2) Trust is not cheap, 3) Crush the weak to ensure your strength, and 4) Never accept charity - it can be misconstrued as a sign of weakness (see lesson #3).

With Master Whiskers, Tarvo travelled across most of the dimensions of the Core... before the Great War. He left Whisker's side when the war flared up, and was on salary with the Grand Army as a field medic during some of the most vicious fighting in the Transbaron region. Though the adventure of his service pleased him well enough, Tarvo did not stay on to enlist, although the offer was extended to him. In the end, it was a wise choice: the riches he made in his years after service in Transbaron by far outweighed whatever salary and pension he would have been offered as a GA field medic. He stayed on with the defenders in Toroia until a year after the War ended, and when he set out on the move again he was followed by the Drider named Yllidel. He won't talk of what happened to cause the spider-elf to follow him, but if asked Yllidel claims that Tarvo saved her life. Tarvo violently refutes virtually everything Yllidel says about their first meeting; few have gotten a straight story out of the pair.

In addition to Yllidel, Tarvo has collected a small band of mercenaries to his service over the years, under the banner of the Earthblade Mercenaries company. They have served as freelancers and bounty hunters in various sorties across the Fringe, and they are all exceptionally good at what they do, possessing (as a group) a range of skills from melee combat to infiltration, sabotage and magical bombardment.