Whakano, the Barber

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Whakano

The Barber

Area: The Rogue Harbour
Functions: Sell contracts
Reveal blueprints detail

Using Whakano's interface to reveal a hidden wing in a Grand Heist blueprint

Whakano, the Barber is a NPC located at the Rogue Harbour. He sells Heist contracts and reveals details of Grand Heist blueprints .

Vendor stocks

Before level ~50, (?) he sells normal heist contracts for Orbs of TransmutationOrb of TransmutationStack Size: 40Upgrades a normal item to a magic itemRight click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. and magic heist contracts for Orbs of ChanceOrb of ChanceStack Size: 20Upgrades a normal item to a random rarityRight click this item then left click a normal item to apply it.

After level ~50, he sells normal heist contracts for an Orb of ChanceOrb of ChanceStack Size: 20Upgrades a normal item to a random rarityRight click this item then left click a normal item to apply it., and magic heist contracts for an Orb of AlchemyOrb of AlchemyStack Size: 20Upgrades a normal item to a rare itemRight click this item then left click a normal item to apply it..

He sells 10 heist contracts at a time. The stock refreshes after the player character levels up or down, so it is possible to use Book of RegressionBook of Regression to force a refresh.

The level of heist contracts he sells maxes out at level 67.

Personal contracts

• Contract: Slaver's RevengeContract: Slaver's RevengeClient: Whakano
  Heist Target: Rescue Hapihapi
  Area Level: #
  Requires Brute Force (Level 1)"When you stop viewing someone as a fellow human being,
  there's little you won't do to forward your agenda.
  That is what we're dealing with."
• Contract: Follow the Paper TrailContract: Follow the Paper TrailClient: Whakano
  Heist Target: Slaver's Records
  Area Level: #
  Requires Lockpicking (Level 2)"Selfishness and hate fuel these kidnappings.
  It's time we find who is leading them."
• Contract: The Slaver KingContract: The Slaver King
  Vigilante ContractClient: Whakano
  Heist Target: Defeat Friedrich Tarollo
  Area Level: 80
  Requires Brute Force (Level 3)"There can be no freedom
  while hate still reigns."Give this Contract to Adiyah in the Rogue Harbour to embark on the Heist. (unique rarity, tradeable)

Lore

Whakano is a Karui and works for the liberation of Karui slaves. He organizes for the player to break into a records office and steal certain slaver's records to track some of the slaves down. He says that after the player killed Kitava, many Karui slaves were liberated from the Oriathian society. He finds out that a man called Hapihapi has gone missing and has been abducted by a slaver. He instructs the player to rescue the man. The final contract involves slaying the slaver Freidrich Tarollo, Slave Merchant to liberate more Karui slaves from bondage.

In-Game Dialogue

Introduction

• Tala moana and good tidings! I'm Whakano, though most people know me as the Barber. If you need a trim and tidy then take a seat. But a little fishy told me you may be more interested in a conversation than a cut.

• A man like myself, travelling around as much as I do, hears a lot of things. Everyone needs their hair cut once in a while, and I am a very attentive listener.

• Some of the things I hear could be very lucrative to people with certain, shall we say, unscrupulous ambitions.

• Drop a few markers in the tip jar, and I may accidentally drop some of my meticulously well-kept notes.

The Boss

• Interesting man. Very interesting indeed. Hairless as the day he came into this world. No need for a man of my trade, you see. Yet, bald as he may be, he knows the value of a good barber.

• No one here knows much about the Boss's past, except maybe Kurai, and she won't tell you much, not even for a mountain of markers. Loyalty is the most valuable currency, and she and the Boss have a lifetime supply.

• I tried to find out what I could. Conflicting tales of a smuggler kingpin, a Theopolan aristocrat, and, strange enough, a retired arena champion. Then Kurai told me to stop sniffing around, else I end up like the last barber. Or maybe she said I'd end up {the} last barber. Either way, I value my life and my work more than I value gossiping about an old, bald, gladiatorial smuggler.

Kitava

• Troubling news coming out of Oriath. I know you weren't just involved, but smack-dab in the middle of things. I also know you aren't to blame. Not directly, anyway.

• Still, you might imagine that I feel some... animosity about the whole situation. Not least of all because the presence of Kitava is quite literally a doomsday scenario for my people.

• I trust you'll sort it out, 'cause if you don't, we're through. And I don't just mean no more business.

• Well, at least you followed through eh? I'd have preferred if my gods stayed tucked away neatly in their tales, but if we're going to have the Ravenous One up and about, at least we have you to put him back to bed for good.

Tukohama

• Listen, I don't want to be a nay-sayer, but before you started coming around here, we didn't have none of this god nonsense. They were just characters in stories. Ways to get the kiddos to eat their greens. And that was fine! In fact, I preferred it that way!

• Now? We've got characters coming to life! And then you're killing 'em! You're killing our heroes! Tukohama was one of the good guys! You better finish what you started.

Slaves

• The rebellion was a long time coming, if you ask me, which you did. And if you ask me, which you didn't, I reckon the bloodshed was inevitable. The gods rising up? That one, I will admit, took me by surprise. So now the Karui are sailing back home -- good. But anger has a tendency to linger like a bad smell, and the enslaved are justifiably angry. It may take a long time before that anger fades. It may never.

Vigilantes

• Let's say you're a wealthy Oriathan slave merchant. You're out there, selling people to other people, really raking in the coin off the back of racial divides. Then one day, those people you've been selling start killing the people you've been selling 'em to! That's gotta be bad for business, right? Time to cut your losses?

• Sadly, no. Slavers have had their pride badly bruised. They're out there -- right now -- looking for Karui men, women, even children, and kidnapping 'em. No one's heard from the taken since. You think they're getting sold to new owners? Not a chance. They're being tortured. Murdered. The slavers see this as revenge, but it is nothing more than evil for evil's sake.

• A lot of bad things have come from the rise of Kitava, but this... for me, this is the worst.

Trivia

• He sometimes greets player character with "Tala", which is the same as the removed NPC Haku, Armourmaster. The dialogue also reveals Whakano is a Karui.
• His name is Whakano, the Barber, but he cannot give your character a new haircut

Version history

Version	Changes
3.12.0	Introduced to the game.