Normand Haket¶
Normand Haket is the innkeeper of the Green Boar Inn at Harwith, a Danari veteran of the Imperial Army who lost a leg in its service and retired to the frontier. When the devil Hal'Gamesh swallowed Harwith in his Hollow, Normand was bound by the blood pact with his guests, went out with them to break it, and died beneath Kilmarn (S138, S161, S165).
Person¶
He is 52, "very long, curled, gray hair and golden eyes", with "rugged, sunburned, golden skin". He stands 5'9", has an athletic build "and a wooden peg leg on his left leg", and "an oval, magnificent face covered with a full grey beard with a deep scar at the center of his forehead" (S138). He is "friendly, outgoing but cautious", and his goals are "Friendship & Peace" (S138).
He "retired as an Elite Sword from the Imperial Army. His company was the Rising Boars" (S138). Earlier drafts add that he "lost his leg in battle" and "retired here 10 years ago with his pension", and that he serves as the village's Master of the Watch, the Imperial name for the local constabulary (S144, S145). If pressed, he "will claim that there is another witch nearby. He has seen the effigies to prove it", and would pay to have it tracked down (S144).
After the Hollow came, his inn was lost to him: "He would like to see the return of his Inn, though that seems very out of reach at the moment. He is struggling for meaning currently" (S138).
With the company¶
Normand was one of "nine 'mercenaries'" bound by the pact at Harwith (S161). At Kilmarn he stayed at the bridge below the obelisk with the rear party, then fought with a silvered short sword from the Brotherhood of the Sun and was cut down and stabilized (S162, S163). In an old dark elven outpost in the caverns beyond, the company fought a drow wraith and a wight, and Normand's lifeforce was drained: the record reads "59 lifeforce dmg on Normand - Accursed", and then "Normond - DEAD" (S165). The Sancturi Campaign chronicle tells the rest.
Gap
The sources do not say what "Accursed" meant for Normand's soul, or what is meant by the line "Normand Specter" in the same record (S165).
Earlier accounts¶
The innkeeper was first drafted as Jahcol (Jak) Bertras, a 52-year-old Danari man, "5'8" heavy 200 lbs", with tan and weathered skin, "clean shaven face with light grey hair, with front balding", a "scar on forehead above left eye" and brown eyes: "Friendly, Gregarious, Outgoing, Cautious & Paranoid" (S203). The Hearnst drafts call Normand a "middle-aged innkeeper" of Hearnst Village rather than Harwith (S145, S144).