Brekk
The tribe’s brewer and medicine maker. He knows which roots will not kill you at this altitude, which beetles reduce fever, and exactly how much of a particular fungus is too much. He is who Broken Tusk sends when someone needs treatment. He is also who the children go to when they need something that smells terrible.
He has never had children of his own. In practice he has helped raise most of the tribe’s young — through pranks, which is also, without anyone quite saying so, how he teaches stealth, patience, observation, and reading a room before committing. The stinky mixtures are the lesson. Most of the students do not figure that out until much later.
He handed Dr. Medicine a pouch that produces perfectly good spices alongside a smell precisely like deeply spoiled milk, shortly after an incident involving curdled milk. He did this with complete sincerity and an entirely straight face. He has not mentioned it since. Neither has anyone else.
Durok
He and Durok trained under the same master, and they have worked together for years, as friends and rivals. Brekk is one of the very few people who can make Durok smile. In Session 14 he introduced Durok to the party as the other half of his current project, a cold-weather enclosure for vegetables. He keeps the foul concentrate from Durok’s crop research around because he thinks it’s the funniest thing in the camp. In Session 16 he brewed Father Joseph a Potion of Greater Healing for the road.
Before the Reweave — In the unwoven, Brekk and Durok were rivals who never got past it. Arveth showed Dr. Medicine the moment it started, a flux for working chardalyn that Brekk solved overnight and Durok never forgave, and a year ahead, memorials for Brekk and Dak. Dr. Medicine rewrote that one fact in Session 12: they had always worked on it together. That was the Reweave.