Urwin

Urwin Rippentropp is a Human Empath, most notable for his role as an ambassador in the service of Baron Gyfford. He is a native citizen of Therengia, having been raised in Riverhaven among a Human family of common working stock. He spent most of his early career as an Empath in Riverhaven, healing indiscriminately at "the crate" and acting as an accessory to many of the pranks, gags, and crimes against the state conducted by several characters whose players posted frequently at the Smelly Cat forums. Through the Outcast War, he served unofficially as a young healer in Riverhaven.

He is characterized by a raucous and often tasteless sense of humor, an inordinate love of cheap beer, and a predisposition to trip over his own sentences, which are typically little more than strings of the longest and most impressive-sounding words he thinks he can fit together.

He is atypical among guilded adventurers in Elanthia because he vocally shuns physical exertion. His forays into combat and survival training are extremely few, far between, and brief. He has become rather pudgy as a result of this and his Halfling-like dietary habits, which his wife Azarii gleefully indulges.

He professes a great amount of nationalistic zeal for Therengia. His love of his homeland carries with it a certain disdain for most other realms. He especially detests Ilithi and most, if not all, of the islands of Qi'Reshalia. He once held a vocal disdain for Elves and Elotheans, but in recent years has not been forthcoming with what once were his usual snide remarks (or outright tirades) besmirching their cultures. This is likely due to some combination of his marriage to an Elf and the increasing visibility of his role as a diplomat.

He is presently the ambassador to the court of Prince Vorclaf, at Ulf'hara keep near the city of The Crossing in Zoluren.

Rumors abound that he is conducting an affair with Countess Vanassa. The two were seen dancing very slowly and generally behaving like enamored teenagers at both the Silver and White Ball and the Green and Gold Ball.

He was awarded the title "Ambassador of Kertigen" by an unknown power after hinting to Chris that he was beginning to gather a clear idea as to the unusual Dwarf's true nature. He has begun to shift away from an attidue of lackadaisical devotions to Truffenyi and Hodierna and into increasingly earnest piety towards Kertigen.

With the opening of the geneology office in the Crossing, he has begun to adopt the closest of his confidants into the Rippentropp family. Wife Azarii, Jhime, and Quanette all now bear the Rippentropp surname.

He is known for irregularly tacking "updates" in cities throughout Zoluren and Therengia. These come in the form of posts in the Events folder of the official Dragonrealms play.net forum. They are typically written in an ebullient style and often contain (sometimes grievous) factual errors that reflect either an author with strong biases who rather selectively interprets the facts available to him, a man who can't be bothered to check the facts of what he's reporting, or both.