Dantoine

## Description

Dantoine is the man in charge, or at least primarily so, of the Battered Boar tavern. Unlike most elves the adventurers might be used to dealing with, Dantoine is brawny, short-tempered, straightforward and ultimately pretty simple. His skin is olive in hue, his hair is blonde and shoulder length (though it is more often than not, tied back) and he has a well kept beard with dull, aged eyes.

He tends to try to keep out of other peoples business and mostly expects the same of his patrons, he sees any infraction of the rules within his tavern as a direct insult to him and reacts accordingly.

Dantoine also has a tendency of splitting between two different accents, the cause of this is yet unclear but when he gets particularly angry he slips into a sharper, foreign accent separate from the more common-folk sounding one.

## History

Dantoine, understandably keeps to himself for many matters of business. As such he has not revealed much about himself or how he came by ownership of the Battered Boar.

A few things are known, though. He runs the Boar in tandem with a man he simply refers to as his Old Man who is pretty well confirmed to be his father, though his mother has yet to be anything but referenced. He claims to have very little knowledge of magic but to be a fairly capable combatant despite his age. He is tangentially a part of some larger family that has yet to be named, having been discovered while a person of unknown relation to Dantoine visited with several young children who claim Dantoine is their 'uncle'.

### **A Story for Gizmo**

When the Atoll'ers were first settling themselves in to town, Dantoine fell into a mentor role of an android he'd come to know as Gizmo. During one particular night, the barkeep (while off duty) indulged in alcohol and attempted to teach the android a life lesson with a story about a friend he'd known in his past. The story was recanted verbatim as below:

 "There was this man I knew once before coming out here to run the boar....Wasn't the brightest type but his heart was usually in the right place, you know the type I'm sure."

 "Well he met this woman... jewel of her family, truly. Dark.... dark red hair, skin so perfect an angel might try to curse 'er if they caught wind. Eyes so big she could see into hell and watch the archdevil's cry. Lucky for him she saw him in a similar capacity, not exactly the same mind you but it was enough to start off some flings the young types adore, aye?"

 "Well time went on for him, and I had to watch something change. She was a gorgeous thing, bright too, easy to tell- and he was just simple enough to not need a lot more than that. Obviously- as you can tell for this story- they fell in love."

 "But she wasn't good for him, never was- not from the start. She loved him I bet, oh I'd believe it if she told me now, but she was awful at expressing it proper. She was controlling, she was manipulative, jealous, petty- you name it. She never wished ill on nobody and did all she can to be kind but just them being together...? It was rotten."

 "But.......... she was too good at being who she was...... or he was too dumb. One of the two- maybe both! Haha. He changed into a different man, he was uproarious, energetic, rowdy, silver tongued and just as the years went on... one by one each of those left the man. And yknow what he did---?"

 "He *loved* her. Never stopped. Just kept doing it. Because that's what you do when you love someone. Good days or bad you keep doing it. It ruined him but he did it."

 "Now... their families weren't exactly ones to get along, and you think that might've saved him but no... if they wanted to get married they would have had to go through all this political nonsense that she didn't want to go through... and she demanded they simply... leave. Elope. Scomparire. Which... believe it or not would have ruined him further, he had a family, a home, connections, he had the whole world at his finger tips if he wanted it. I'll give you one guess what that idiot did..."

 "He was going to, he was really ready to do it, and the family- his family found out. N'in his family, you don't just do that. Hers? Maybe, if things went south, she could'a came home to open arms. Where he was from though, family is blood and law. Haha. All the things he gave up, his friends, his hobbies, little pieces of himself, all fer love- he was going to drop his family too- his law..........."

 "But then she died."

 "She died. Sickness in her head, some sort of pit. No one knew it was there until she just fell over one day, things didn't get better for a few weeks. She died bed ridden and he didn't even get to see it because his family was watching him closely."

 "She died, just because of a poor fate. Wasn't divine punishment for how she treated him, wasn't some grand assassination between feuding families- she just died- took everything he had... mnn no... he *gave* her everything he had. Then she died. His family was going to murder him, they knew he was going to leave him- and I know he only survived on a fluke. But what did he have left to show for it? For life? He was a quiet, broken slave of a man who had lost his driver. The addict got fuckin' cut off, and he couldn't even be mad at her because he still *fuckin' loved her.*"

 "He lost his lady to fate, lost himself to that lady, lost his family to himself- who wasn't nothing now. All because he was too stupid to take a step back and ask himself a very easy question....."

 "Is this good for *me*?"

 "You don't make someone your whole world lad, you don't give yourself up in the name of love... love is just... it's just like anger... It's a part of you but it can't be all of you. You give yourself up in the name of that and you just become the..... the thing. That's what true love is... and it's *fucking* poison........"

 "But it don't have to be."

## Love Since Risk

In the recent time passing since the refugees arrived from Islandfall, Dantoine had engaged hesitantly into a relationship with Aislinn (Formerly Kitare). The entire relationship was very slow burning and gentle in growth, with Dantoine needing to stay committed to outside forces he'd promised his time to and Aislinn with her own demons to battle.

Before her eventual jailing after a failed attempted murder of Azelf, Aislinn was told the one secret Dantoine had very carefully guarded as a show of trust and commitment, his last name.

The state of the relationship is unknown as Aislinn has not been visited by the barkeep during her prison sentence currently being served.

## Abilities

* Dantoine has been seen to be in control a very powerful artifact of unknown name origin that seems to emanate necrotic magic when active. This bangle he has only used once thus far to maintain control over his bar.

## Relations

* Dantoine has a passing, professional relationship with most if not all of the folk who come through the portal- and tries to stay on good terms with them.
* Dantoine and Aislinn have had a romantic relationship, the state of this affair is currently unknown.
* Dantoine has a professional relationship with Aboleth in receiving the deliveries she makes
* Dantoine has unknown relations with an unnamed elven (half-elf?) woman

## Trivia

* Dantoines 'angry' accent is akin to an italian one, quite specifically in reference to the movie the God Father

## Adventurer's Notes

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