Tarak

Tarak is a human in late middle age. He has pale skin tanned darker with many freckles, auburn hair and a beard that is mostly gray, and gray-blue eyes. Faded tattoos in an abstract design peek up the side of his neck from beneath his dirt-stained robes.
An avid botanist, Tarak tends the cloister’s garden plots, growing flowers, herbs, and vegetables. He is soft spoken and helpful, eager to share his knowledge of herbalism.
Tarak is initially friendly toward visitors, but if someone pries into his past, his attitude shifts—first to indifferent, then to hostile if they continue to push. When he’s hostile, his demeanor becomes cold and clipped, and he avoids them if he can.
A gold hangman’s noose is worked into the design of Tarak’s visible tattoos.
Tarak frequently visits the sea caves on the south side of the island to acquire heart cap mushrooms from the myconids that live there. He uses the mushrooms to make potions of healing. But the myconids have installed a fearsome guardian at their caves—a fungus-covered octopus monster—that has turned him away on his latest visits.

Related Historical Events

• 1491 BCE
  Seagrow Caves Inaccessible