Tural Kirmnas

It is difficult enough tracking down groups of adventurers. The task becomes compounded when individuals must be located. Likewise, the odds become exponential when a transient must be found. Such was the case with Tural Kirmnas, a mercenary who, for a short period, was a member of the group that is now the Bearers of Akasha.

Kirmnas posed a problem to us. We did not have the luxury of time to wait for our fleet-footed troubador to find the Theran. Already committed to tracking down the large majority of the other Bearers and such, there was little chance that our esteemed obsidiman associate would have been able to locate him. Without the time to search for Kirmnas, I commissioned my old friend and noted scholar Lavrup Green-Tongued for the mission. Having come from the Scol Mountains himself, Lavrup's knowledge and contacts allowed him to track down the mercenary quite easily. Kirmnas was interviewed at the Ishkarat citadel on 1 Borrum 1508 before his departure for Kaer Eidelon. Although quite willing to discuss himself, he refused to express personal opinion on the Bearers themselves. After the River Pearl incident, Lavrup followed up on his interview and research, submitting this document to me on 10 Rua, 1509. My gratitude to him for such an outstanding job.

Borrum Binbalik

11 Rua, 1509

Tural Kirmnas was born Theran, but spent much of his life in Barsaive where his talents were more appreciated by both locals and the Therans. A short, thin but powerfully built human, Tural excelled at wielding a sword and charming the ladies. Actually, he enjoyed charming the ladies far more than swinging a sword, but the Theran Fifth Legion thought he should concentrate more on fighting the Vasgothian barbarians the Legion had been sent to pacify than enraging them even further by sleeping with their women. Tural decided that it was time to end his Theran military career and find better offers elsewhere. Knowing he had three years left on his contract, his letter of resignation came late at night -- several hours after he stowed aboard a supply ship to Sky Point. Thanks to the mighty Theran Bureacracy, Tural became just a tiny anonymous Name scrawled in the vast records of the Empire. As a highly skilled mercenary in Barsaive, he thrived.

Tural was a rather interesting, if temporary, member of the Bearers of Akasha. Tural originally met the Bearers when he was hired to follow them and kill them on the Bryhn Steppes. He engaged the Third Circle Swordmaster Rokk Krinn in a one-on-one duel. And lost. Badly. Once Tural managed to recuperate from the two story fall out of a window Rokk maneuvered him into, he decided to find better employment. Preferably with someone who would pay and would not look so frowningly on failure, as his curent employer, Agramen, did. In his travels south to safer lands, Tural once again met the Bearers. They agreed to take him on as a hired sword for a reasonable sum, and he adventured with them for nearly one month. They parted service as equals if not on good terms, when Tural refused an equal, but uncertain, share of treasure and full membership by which the group sought to replace his significant fees.

After leaving the Bearers, Tural worked for several other agents. Almost immediately, he was hired by Argvin's Moveable Goods and Wares, a small and disreputable merchant concern, as a caravan guard to deliver cargo to Iopos. Once there, he parlayed his nkowledge of the Bryhn Steppes where he had worked for Agramen into a position of an Iopan sympathy instigator, before Jada Denairastas took a personal fancy to him and hired him as a bodyguard. In this position, it is believed that Tural died in the wreckage of the River Pearl when the Horror Ubyr crushed it within its coils.