Grisp Falaunt

Grisp Falaunt lived in a shack on the northern edge of the Dwelling Plain south of Darujhistan. He had once been a man of vast ambitions, who saw the unclaimed lands of the Dwelling Plain as the key to making himself the lord of the single greatest landholding anywhere on the continent, a patriarch of orchards, pastures, groves and fields of corn. However, after forty-one futile years there, he suddenly realised that the Dwelling Plain was unclaimed because it "was...useless. Lifeless. Pointless." Over that time he had lost two wives, three partners, seven investors, and nearly everything he owned. Even his children had eventually wandered off when his promises of a glorious inheritance turned to dust.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.699 
Now he lived only with Scamper, his useless two-legged dog, who had to be hand-fed the rats it was supposed to kill. And his lands amounted to three rows of root-crops, each barely twenty paces long and infested with purple fungus and grub-worms.
He spent his evenings rocking in a chair on his back porch with his hand in his tunic, drinking cactus spit, and chewing a wad of Rustleaf in one cheek and a wad of Durhang in the other.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.851
==In Toll the Hounds==
On the final night of the Gedderone Fête, when powerful forces converged on Darujhistan, the Hounds of Shadow trampled Grisp's crops and burst through his shack on their way to the city. Two Hounds snapped at his head in passing and Grisp survived only by falling backwards on his chair. He had enough time to see Scamper hiding beneath the porch before the Hounds burst through the gate of Darujhistan, sending a shock wave that collapsed the rest of his home.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.699-701
==In Orb Sceptre Throne==
Grisp had rebuilt his shack into a lean-to of broken lumber and canvas and he had succeeded in growing a single row of turnips. Beneath his meagre crop was buried the body of Scamper, whose heart had been burst by the same "devil-dogs" who had broken his "fine cabin". Grisp considered the dog to have been his last loyal friend. However, history repeated itself when a double file of masked Seguleh on their way to Darujhistan, trampled all but a single turnip under their sandalled feet.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 12, US TPB p.360-361
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