Arvin Kothonos

Arvin Kothonos was the Guildmaster of the Merchants' Guild of Ravens Bluff from ? -- ?

Appearance
(The "current year" for the people and events in Gateway to Ravens Bluff, the Living City is just before the Time of Troubles, approximately 1356 -- 1357 DR. At that time, Arvin Kothonos was 46 years old.)

Arvin is 5'9" tall and weighs 205 pounds. In his younger days he was 40 pounds lighter.  He wears expensive clothes and is always neat and clean shaven.

Personality
Arvin is known as an affable and jovial family man but is a skillful negotiator (mostly due to his medallion of ESP) and will skate around the edges of the law to insure profits. He is a poor planner and secretly depends on his wife Charlotte for ideas and advice on major decisions. He will "sleep on it" if the matter is very important and then go home and describe the situation to Charlotte and get her insight. Arvin has a checkered past and will go to any lengths to conceal it.

Background
Before coming to Ravens Bluff Arvin was the pirate captain Garnet Smithson and he is a wanted man, although most people who knew of him have written him off as lost at sea by now. Garnet wore a full beard which is why Arvin is adamant about staying clean shaven. Once, when a former henchman came to town, Arvin spotted him first and arranged for the thugs' guild to bump him off while Arvin was on an extended "trading venture" to establish an alibi. Arvin began his new life in Ravens Bluff as the head of the Blue Star Trading Company and with his medallion was able to quickly establish a thriving business.

He joined the Merchants' Guild and worked his way up to Guildmaster, chairing the Council of Ten and representing the guild before the Council of Lords. He depends heavily on his magical medallion to keep himself one step ahead of everyone else and able to cover up questionable dealings and unethical practices. However, the Regent of the Harbor, Lord Calvin Longbottle suspects that the guild is behind several unexplainable accidents that resulted in the sinking of non-guild ships, but he has no solid proof yet. He knows for sure that guild ships often violate harbor regulations in several minor ways.

Arvin married Charlotte in 1342 DR and they have two children Biff and Miriam. Arvin needs his wife's advice to help him shrewdly navigate the legitimate ways of doing business and will do anything to protect her.