Gareb

Gareb was a money-lender who operated out of Darujhistan. His wife called him "sweet sliverfishy" in reference to the under-performing member that had so far failed to bring her a child.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.150-151 
Kruppe described him as hirsute.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.189 
==The family estate==
Gareb owned a walled estate in the Estate District. The interior of the wall was decorated with cornices, scrollwork metopes, and braided false columns, and its gate was manned by two guards named Milok and Doruth.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.146-147 The main house was two stories tall with shuttered windows.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.147 A wide central staircase provided access to a second floor landing from where Gareb's study, office, and bedroom could be reached.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.148/149/150 Guards took positions in rooms throughout the house including one bulbous-nosed guard who sat in a chair just outside the office facing the stairs.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.147/149
The shelves of the study were largely empty but for a leather-bound book and a score of scrolls. Torvald Nom described the selection of scrolls as showing evidence of money, but not of taste or intelligence.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.148-149 Gareb was in the habit of hiding his valuables in a longbox under his bed.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.151
==In Toll the Hounds==
In order to pay off their debt to Gareb, Scorch and Leff began tracking down people who appeared on Gareb's list of debtors. Torvald Nom was one of them, having once been wined and dined by Gareb in an attempt to woo him into taking on a job. When Torvald Nom refused the work, Gareb billed him for the cost of the supper and wine.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3 The extravagant bill was what had led to Nom's flight from the city and his eventual encounter with Karsa Orlong in Silver Lake. Gareb had hounded Nom's wife, Tiserra, for the money claiming the debt was hers as well until she hired an advocate to end the dispute. Still, he had his thugs follow her for months, suspecting she was delivering food to Nom in his hiding place.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.193
Over the years, the amount ballooned to a sum of a thousand silver councils. Scorch and Leff cornered Torvald upon his return to Darujhistan, but he managed to talk his way into a respite in order to pay off what he owed.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3 
Torvald slipped into Gareb's estate on a night when Gareb was away at a meeting, entering the house through a window in the upper floor. He was followed by a amber-eyed cat, which distracted the guard sitting watch in front of Gareb's office. Slipping into Gareb's bedroom, he found only Gareb's drowsing wife who pretended the thief was her husband engaging in sexual roleplay. For his stud services, she "reminded" her husband that he kept his valuables underneath the bed.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.146-151Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.270
Torvald brought the money home to Tiserra to hide it from any mages Gareb sent to find it, then paid off his debt with Gareb's own money.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.194Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.269-270
==Notes and references==
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