Zad Foist

[Ouroboros]

Name: Zad Foist

Race: Human

Age: 45

Occupation: Turnip Farmer

Location: Forloren Farms, southwest of Britain, Felucca facet. 

Brief history:  Zad Foist grew up on the streets of the Britain Slums.  He was orphaned at a young age and spent some time in an orphanage before running away after having some troubling experiences.  He fell in with beggars, hoodlums and thugs and quickly learned the arts of cutting purses and petty theft.  He joined the thieves guild and learned the arts of picking locks, cracking safes, breaking and entering. He spent the next  fifteen years as a professional housebreaker and cat burglar.

He fell in love with a peasant woman who toiled as a seamstress, and decided to quit the life for good and try walking the straight-and-narrow.  He had a sizeable nest-egg tucked away from years of ill-gotten gains, and had to spend most of it to buy off his freedom from the guild and ensure that his throat would not be slit some night in the future.  The remainder of his savings went to buy a small plot of farmland outside the city proper.  He married the seamstress Elaine and learned how to work the land.  The soil was unforgiving, and he found turnips to be the easiest crop to grow with his unskilled hands.

Years passed as he learned the art of agriculture, many of them lean like his younger days when he pulled meager coins from the cobbled streets of the city.  Elaine bore him four children, and they settled into a simple but fulfilling life, his darker days becoming a dim memory.

Tragedy struck and Zad lost his wife and four children in the recent past.  What happened he does not speak of, and he spends much of his time working hard to keep the farm going,  or drowning his sorrows in the local taverns or drinking his own peculiar brand of turnip liquor and talking to his shaggy old horses.

Most recently, he met John and others of the Emerald Fist at the Salty Dog tavern where he was begging for coin after a mishap in which some of his farm equipment was destroyed. John generously offered him a sack of 100 gold coins as well as an offer to purchase crops from him to supply the Emerald Fist.  Zad got his equipment fixed and worked out a deal to acquire some new lands for planting in the spring.  

Presently, he is hard at work to bring in his harvest of turnips.