Maestro Pendrod

''Dressed in exotic southern silks of various colours that cling to his fat body this man is quite overweight but moves daintily speaking with dramatic flourishes like an old classical thespian. Despite being bald on top, his hair and moustache are dyed a bright unnatural red.''

Maestro Irvil Pendrod was an insufferable snob, quite convinced of his own superiority he was also perhaps one of the most knowledgable and renowned scholars of Iobarian history and a tutor at the acclaimed Kitharodian Acadamy. Aside from being a scholar, Pendrod was an accomplished orator and actor as well as a talented singer and dancer. He appeared to be in his fifties.

Invited to Varnhold by Maegar Varn, Pendrod was caught up in the misfortune that befell the village finding his body and soul trapped and in the possession of the undead cyclops warlord, Vordakai. He was rescued by members of the Council of Leaders of Thorn and was invited to spend time in Stagshelm studying the Koloran Stones.

Maestro Pendrod gifted one third of the fabled Iobarian blade, Passion's Edge, to the Council of Leaders. After being presented with one of the other thirds of the blade Pendrod was later found dead of a suspected heart attack.

At the time of his death Pendrod had been working on the book An Ethnography of the Indigenous Tribes of the Iobarian Steppes.