Oswald Breeker, the Squire of Combe
Said to be the richest and most miserly man in all of Breeland, Oswald Breeker lives in the big house at the edge of Combe. He rarely goes outside, but employs Little servants to fetch and carry for him. Breeker owns much of the land around Combe, and demands high rents from the tenant farmers who live there. He is not a popular man among the Bree-folk.
His wife died nine years ago, and his daughter vanished some years before that; she ran off with a minstrel, or went adventuring, or went mad, or ran away, depending on which gossip you listen to. No doubt he would pay well for any news of her. Those few who have been guests at his table say that he has a room full of books and scrolls and old things, and that he spends long nights in study of the past. They say, too, that Rangers sometimes visit Oswald Breeker, and that they esteem him more than his neighbours, although why this is so they cannot fathom.
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