Tanar+d'Tharashk

Tanar d'Tharashk (aka Tanar'aashta)
A Half-Orc Inquisitive and member of House Tharashk, Tanar was hired by Prince Oargev ir'Wynarn of New Cyre as a special Inquisitive. He bears the Lesser Mark of Finding on his left collarbone. Known to ride a Skeletal Courser, a Karrnathi creation used by cavalry units during the Last War, and for wearing a genteel bowler hat on his broad head. Plays a good game of Three-Dragon Ante. Swore to Faye Dwarfhammer that he'd crack the case of the Slayer of Cyre's Children first, but revealed (while drunk) that another victim had apparently turned up in the town of Diamond Gulch.

In mid-Zarantyr he accompanied Captain Narcy ir'Kemble of the Breland Army into the Dragonshard mine underneath the Murnie Homestead. A message was received on 14 Zarantyr 998 that Tanar and Capt. Kemble were being held hostage by the Dark Hand Goblinoid remnants, who were demanding safe passage to the Darguun border. House Tharashk has stated their acceptance of the terms, and has pressured both Breland and the Prince to go along.

After his release was secured, Tanar took part in the New Cyran Muster and, once the Dragonshard mine was cleared, confirmed that the site still had Eberron Shards in viable quantities for small-scale mining to resume. Prince Oargev, with House Tharashk's permission, has assigned Tanar the task of getting the mine back into operation.

Once the Muster was finished, a scout reported that the Dark Hands may have originally entered Breland from a site in the western face of the Seawall Mountains. Tanar quickly rounded up some likely adventurers to investigate, acting in the Prince's name, and assigned two warriors from the Muster, Dona and Jho, to join them. The "Unfinished Business" party left on 18 Zarantyr, and returned on 26 Zarantyr. Tanar acted as their handler on both occasions, seemingly getting further and further away from his original job as a freelance Inquisitive.

Sometime in early Therendor Governor Oargev ir'Wynarn (ex-Prince) hired Tanar to search for Brunt d'Vadalis, a Cyran-born member of House Vadalis who had gone missing while traveling to his family's breeding enclave southwest of New Cyre, PrairieHearth. Tanar got as far as the outer gates before he was bushwhacked by the Red Owl and her cronies, during their occupation and corruption of the House enclave. He was beaten to unconsciousness on multiple occasions, tortured and interrogated, and then kept sedated with drugged //goodberries// for at least two weeks (along with other captives and hostages including Brunt d'Vadalis and Ariel Elenwyd) before being rescued by the party on 23 Therendor. However, going into the basement of the House Vadalis mansion, Tanar and Brunt were stunned by mutated lizardfolk, then blasted by a colony of magebred shocker lizards, angered after being attacked by Golandar Kolkarun. With his injuries mostly untreated, Tanar died instantly from the electrical assault.

Nice one, Golandar.

Update/Flashback:
Long before hanging his shingle as an Inquisitive, a younger Tanar'aashta served his House as an intermediary. In 989 YK he traveled to Passage in western Aundair. Soon after he arranged for the hiring of a company of Droaam mercenaries, primarily Gargoyles and Harpies led by an Ogre Mage. This force was deployed to the Eldeen Reaches as counterinsurgents, where they waged a months-long war of terror on a region of the newly-independent land. Tanar traveled with the unit's ground support. In one particular incident, the Droaamites engaged an unmarked elemental airship, crewed by House Lyrandar Half-Elves and members of a Valenar Elf warband. The airship, which had been supporting Elven communities in the Reaches, was shot down and all crew slain except for one of the Valenar. Then, while the Droaamites stood guard (at one point killing a Shifter Ranger belonging to the Wardens of the Wood), a team of hireling Artificers repaired the downed airship and managed to fly it away -- after which Tanar brokered the withdrawal of the Droaamites from the Reaches, and the return of the Valenar to her people. The incident strained relations between Houses Lyrandar and Tharashk, as well as between the Daughters of Sora Kell and the //Vales Tairn//.