Tildus Plant

Description
Tildus Plant is an elderly, balding and eccentric man, who's mind was not touched by the effect that age had on his body. Once a large and prominent man, Tildus turned more scholarly as age and illness robbed him of most of his muscular abilities. He is more apt to let his apprentices do the manual labor around the library while he tends to the patrons.

The primary caretaker of the library of Barackshire, one that he helped to found, Tildus takes his role and job very seriously. He feels the need to keep education and the tools of learning free and open to everyone. This has led to the sometimes pranks and defacing of great works, but the benefits of having a library in the small village far outweigh the negatives, in his mind.

Tildus has written two documentaries, one chronicling his life as a soldier and the other the lives of the farmers in the town of Barackshire.

Date of Birth
18 Ches : 1308 DR The Year of the Catacombs

Date of Death
2 Uktar: 1377 DR The Year of the Haunting, slain during the destruction of Barackshire.

Relationships
Tildus was the mentor and something of a father figure to Deckar the Historian, whom he hand picked to train and send out in the world to gain education, see the different peoples and places of Faerun and to record it all for the simple people of Barackshire. It was during the time shortly after Deckar had left that the village was attacked, the people slaughtered and the library destroyed. Deckar has no knowledge of this, as he has set out to travel the world and will not return for some time.

History
Tildus was a mercenary fighter based out of Hillsfar for much of the early part of his life. He was an orphan and a vagabond, so little is known about his childhood, where he grew up and who his family were. He learned from an early age that people did not pity the small or weak, so he worked very hard to become skilled with weaponry, as well as taking tough physical jobs to prove that he was not just some small orphan kid. All of this work paid off as Tildus grew into an enormously strong young man.

He made a modest living through the skill of his sword arm, participating in many of the regional wars and skirmishes as a soldier for hire. His reputation grew with his prowess in battle until, before long, he was no longer employed due to the fear and respect people had for him. Most were afraid to pay for his employment, because Tildus was something of a killing machine on the battlefield. This caused him to gain the reputation of being something of a loose cannon.

His life took an unfortunate twist though in the summer of The Year of the Lion, 1340 DR, when he, his family and the village they had sought refuge in were hit by a brutal plague. The number of survivors was minimal and none without having some lasting effect from the illness. Tildus was robbed of most of his physical ability, remaining only with simple functions (such as the ability to walk, pick up light objects, etc). It was at this point, widowed, that he moved far away to Barackshire to begin a new life, this time away from war and destruction. He sought to educate people who were otherwise unable to provide themselves with the materials to learn. He set up the first Farmer's Library, located in the heart of Barackshire.

Works

 * A Soldier's March: The Chronicles of Regret of a Mercenary
 * The Farmer's Compendium: A Simple Look At the Life and Times of a Modern Day Farmer