Parmegianno Haug

**Parmegianno Haug** is an Elder on the Garlen Awakened Council and the owner/bartender of Haug's Travelling Tavern. He is also the first and last of his Awakened bloodline.

## Appearance

Haug is a man in his mid 30's with brown hair, eyes, and a well-groomed beard with orange and yellow streaks. He has broad shoulders and wears a loose white shirt along with black pants, a waistcoat, and a bowtie.

## Personality

The tavern owner has a penchant for theatrics but often speaks without thinking of the consequences, leading to frequent situations where he angers others. He also cares for children and the young, having failed his own apprentice and witnessed countless other youths fail without proper mentorship.

## Background

Haug's apprentice died fighting a losing battle because he was too afraid to ask for his master's help. Haug loved him like a son but never treated him as such, patting his back being the greatest praise he ever gave him. His death, Tartania's friends' demises, and other young Awakened's lack of proper guidance from the Awakened Council lead Haug to detest the Council's archaic policies and selfish behavior.

Kamila brings Lith to Haug's Traveling Tavern, where Haug had prepared for his arrival by playing a song of his feats as Archmage. Lith's paranoia and unique atmosphere of the tavern forces Haug to explain who he is. Kamila rebukes Haug for luring them to the tavern for a business proposal, and the other customers and staff chime in in agreement, exchanging embarrassing anecdotes about his past.

Haug relents, offering drinks on the house. He explains his proposal to rescue undead children missing from the Eclipsed Lands' undead cities in exchange for his secret to the violet core and contact with someone who knows the identity of Count Lark's murderer. He discloses his intention to release his legacy with the entire Awakened community to prevent cases like Tartania's from happening again, though excluding his secret to the violet core since he considers it a necessary limit to power. Lith agrees to consider the proposal after Haug sends the mission details.

Lith's group travels to the Gorgon Empire to meet with Haug and the Firstborn Vampire, Vladion Dragonborn. Though initially reluctant to allow Scarlett and Lith into his city of Lightkeep, Vladion is convinced by Nyka to permit them entry in order to find the missing children. In the aftermath of the Three Horsemen's attack on the Kingdoms major cities, Lith shares with Haug the news of the battles before informing him of his plan to find the kidnapped undead.

After Lith uncovers Thrud as the kidnapping culprit and evolves to Tiamat with his breakthrough to the deep violet, Haug brings Lith back to Derios and gives him two Davross ingots. Haug laments dragging Lith into the mess. Haug's legacy is later publicly released to the Awakened community and others such as Feela push to enact changes to the Council to prevent Xedros' horrors from happening again. His legacy provides newly Awakened with so many things to learn that it will take them decades to master everything, leading future heirs to not rush to inherit from their masters and those not chosen don't go back home empty ended. Though the Council deems that even a "shallow" legacy like Haug's is too dangerous to spread it freely, it still becomes available to anyone who gets themselves a master or simply gains the Council's recognition.

## Haug's Traveling Tavern

**Haug's Traveling Tavern** is a neutral zone where people of all races can congregate and enjoy a drink. It is rectangular one-story building made of stone with several squared windows and a door that seals all the noise inside except for the brief moment when it is opened. It has a huge neon-like insignia that says: Haug's Travelling Tavern. The floor and the walls are comprised of small hard wooden boards, giving the place a warm and cozy ambiance. The Tavern's Warp Drive allows it to Warp on its own several times in quick succession, recharged using mana geysers.

The tables are spaced so that it doesn't feel crowded, leaving to each group of customers their privacy. Equally comfortable padded chairs and barstools allow people to choose between sitting in groups at a table or at the bar counter at the top right corner with the bartender as their only company. In the top left corner, instead, there is a bandstand from which musicians play. The front of the tavern is as big as the whole building seen from outside even though half of it is supposed to be taken by the kitchen.

After permanently hiring someone, Haug usually Awakens the strays he picks up and makes them his apprentices. It is the only way to exploit the Council to protect them from whatever past they are running away from and to get a reasonably waged workforce.

## Quotes

* *"Gods, what a party pooper. Fine, my name is Parmegianno Haug, elder of the human Awakened Council and owner of this fine establishment. Are you happy now or do you want to see my family tree as well?"* (Haug to Lith, Chapter 1366)
* *"You're a f\*cking jerk, Haug. Deal with it."* (One of Haug's patrons to Haug, Chapter 1367)
* *"Thank the gods you're here, Lady Yehval. He's not only as paranoid, but also as cheap and petty as the rumors say."* (Haug to Kamila, Chapter 1367)
* *"we Awakened are a society that doesn't give a f\*ck about their youths and only care about their precious legacies...My point is that children are our future and the Council is just a bunch of old greedy bastards."* (Haug to Lith, Chapter 1368)
* *"If I just give my legacy away, the only thing that I'd achieve is to pass for a senile old fool that went mad after losing his only apprentice. To make my gesture a significant statement, I need to show the old coots that I was right about the threat at hand and give the young Awakened a role model."* (Haug to Lith, Chapter 1369)
* *"Lith Verhen, you're such a piece of work that I would love if you had a middle name. I wonder how you managed to get a single woman to love you with such a shitty attitude."* (Haug to Lith, Chapter 1401)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 1366
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1368
3. ↑ Chapter 1367
4. ↑ Chapter 1369
5. ↑ Chapter 1375
6. ↑ Chapter 1401
7. ↑ Chapter 1419
8. ↑ Chapter 1450
9. ↑ Chapter 1418
10. ↑ Chapter 1403
11. ↑ Chapter 1366: Author's Note