The Quartermaster: Elmar Barthen

Elmar Barthen survived the Crossings of the Redrun in 1484 DR, where an orc horde shattered Knight-Commander Degar Mindero’s forces during the War of the Silver Marches.

As the company’s quartermaster, Barthen spent years wandering the North with Mindero’s remaining supply wagons until he met Ander and Thistle - orphans from Nesmé, a city destroyed in the war.

Growing fond of the boys and wanting a better life for them, Barthen brought them to the newly resettled Phandalin. Using Mindero’s leftover stores, he founded Barthen’s Provisions, now the town’s largest trading post.

With Ander and Thistle old enough to run the shop, Barthen now hires himself out as a quartermaster to adventurers for 3 gp per day, charging separately for any consumable supplies used during their travels (candles, oil, rations, torches, etc.).

Accompanying Barthen on his adventurous errands is his mule, Kicker.

Aid unlooked for. Elmar uses the guard stat block for combat encounters. While he does not accompany his clients into dungeons or other dangerous adventure sites, he comes to the aid of anyone using one of the signal whistles carried among his supplies.