I tried to sleep last night, but Orlak wasn’t havin’ none o’ that.
Jul 17, 2008 Photography & Digital Art
Orlak is the owner and bar keep of The Brazen Wench.
The Brazen Wench was an Inn and tavern I had created to do some story development and creative writing for Suliss’urn, another character of mine. The Brazen has slowly begun to grow on me, becoming clearer as time goes by.
Orlak character sketch ©M. Pence
The bar keep’s name was Orlak. He’d been behind the bar of The Brazen Wench since it opened, or so the rumors had it. A wizened, grizzled, scar laden dwarf that stood upon a rickety wooden box-contraption with wheels that carried him with a push from one end of the knife marked bar to the other.
Orlak’s dull gray eyes didn’t flicker upward from his polishing of a wooden tankard with dubiously stained cloth when figures approached his bar for drinks. Orlak had long ago given up any enthusiasm in seeing whomever showed up, several scars along his stumped hands and across his face had taught him to pretend as if faces did not exist.
Orlak the Dwarf © M. Pence, 2008
