Jovnna

One of the original member's of Ardith's warband when Liissa joined Sigehold and asked around for people to help her Jovnna did so and now works as her barman and bouncer. He was noticeable in that when she tried to negotiate she pay him less money but more 'in kind' he refused. The rest of the men pulling up the timber framed house did not. Jovnna's appreciation for cold, hard cash was something that Liissa could respect.

The timber-framed house that the men from around Sigehold put up in Skarsind was not far from the large hala of Sigehold, a smaller thatched wooden structure, at first looking seemingly low to the ground but entering from the south side down the hewn steps becoming obvious that it was cut into the mountainside. The windows that were ground level outside were around the height of a short-man's chest within. Long tables ran along each side lined with benches and at the far end, below the peak of the roof a roaring hearth-fire. Over it a stew pot usually bubbled with tempting scents. On the far wall ran a shelf of bottles, some quite exotic looking. On the right, in the corner a wooden staircase running along the right hand wall led to a wooden floor hanging from the roof. Usually near the fire Liissá could be found, drinking horn in hand.

Once the people had put up the structure they mostly returned to their homes, Jovnna proposed that he stay, for a wage. Liissá was initially suspicious but he didn't touch her, just drank, kept bar and threw out troublemakers with practiced ease. Usually he throws out troublemakers quietly, his quiet presence often being enough to quieten riotous drunks. He can be and has been vicious if someone threatens the girls. He has no compunction about breaking noses or bones or the creative application of blades. Giste, who had been a regular with her man (a member of Ardith's warband), joined Liissa a few months after she had set up, selling herself in the second room on the first floor. (Once Giste started selling herself in the room above Jovnna started paying for sex as well as booze. He tends to avoid paying for Liissá, she's pretty sure it's because she's his boss, but if he's had a bad day and there's no one else then he will.)