Bene Timbre

Bene Timber is a person that embodies the phrase, "and he needs no introduction", because he made it his business to be well known. In the service of the King as a member of The Diplomatic Corps of Calanthi, he began his career after completing his education at The College by carrying messages from the Duke of the Westlands to Barons and other nobles on the western frontier. On the frontier, he was taken in by the county's Diplomatic Visitor, Andante. Andante trained him further in the field, as the expression goes, and this training along with Bene Timber's natural talents formed the foundation for an impressive career. Bene Timber became a Diplomatic Visitor himself at a comparatively young age.   In and about the area of Crossroads, Bene Timber accomplished many deeds beyond his assignments by acting on his own initiative. His first accomplishment was to disrupt a plot to reestablish a Cult of Water Elemental Worshipers. He was able to accomplish this following a single lead that was accidentally left with a merchant on a clumsily drawn map of the area. On the other side of the parchment were directions needed to locate a "key" that would unlock a door to a hidden vault. The discovery of the vault included the discovery of a large library that benefitted The College. This contribution gave Bene Timber notoriety among the scholars at The College, which served Bene Timber well later.   He remained in the County for a period before being invited to become the Diplomatic Messenger to Oirmnein, a dwarven settlement in the east.  The trip to Oirmnein was difficult because the Dwarves didn't wish to be open with the people of Calanthi at that time.  But subsequent to Bene Timber's visits the dwarves there have become an active trading partner.  Dwarven architecture is found throughout the east duchy because of the prevalence of dwarven craftsmen.  Bene Timber went on to serve the Corps as an advisor to the Men of the Wild immediately prior to the Great Annexation; the polite name the nobility gave to the period of Orc Wars at the dawn of the third age.   Bene Timber advised the Men of the Wild to broaden their membership with other talented adventurers that could help them.  They did have a few men in their ranks that could not tap into the special natural magics used by the team leaders.  But they could fight and track so they had skills that were of use to the patrols in the field.  But Bene Timber convinced them to open their ranks to Clerics and Paladins, Druids and even Bards, that could lend their talents to help them remain in the field longer.  Bene Timber never had a taste for the universal manner of the Black Rangers, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later.  The other thing Bene Timber never cared for was the type of living needed when out on patrol with the Black Rangers.  They learned to eat what the Orcs would eat and avoided many of the basic luxuries Bene Timber enjoyed.  They said, "To survive out here, you have to live like an orc, eat like and orc and begin to think like an orc."  Bene Timber learned early that somtimes you could smell orcs before you would see them.  And they told him without their rigid code of living on patrol the orcs would be able to smell them before they could see them too.