Kirk Pinewood

Kirk was a moderately successful antiquities dealer and owner of Pineworks until the delivery of a mysterious package led him to almost kill King Dennon, or so everyone else thought. Dennon saw the truth and now keeps Kirk in his employ as the royal antiquities dealer, occasionally sending him on missions to collect items of monetary and intrinsic value in far off lands. 
At the Council of Marin of 402, Kirk became the victim of a political marriage orchestrated by Queen Lucrezia Scheer to secure a mercenary contract with The Iron Plaines in The Witherlands. Kirk was wed on the day to Lady Anna Barrmount, younger sister of Lady Sibyl Barrmount, ruler of The Iron Plaines, who was Anna's only living family. Anna had escaped the North with little more than the clothes on her back when Sibyl was taken hostage by Nathaniel Vivayn at their home at Barrmount keep. Anna made her way to the Council of Marin to strike a deal, giving her hand in marriage to whomever promised to send aid to the North in return. Lucrezia accepted, and Kirk happened to be the only Ibbish bachelor available on such short notice.