This mob spawns at -4149, +1200, +17.35 in the tower at the north end of the stone bridge, next to Brother Nallin. At times he's replaced by Watchman Dexlin.
I agree with drool's findings. I have a druid that I tanked only karana residents faction on, and cons dubious to me now. So I'm pretty confident he's on karana residents.
This guy conned exactly the same as farmers to over 25 diff combinations of characters spanning various races and religions..
I am 98% sure he is on karana residents just like the farmers.
What is interesting, is that the barkeep and innkeep mobs have a diff con profile.. no idea what they are on.
Sometimes killing an NPC gives one hit that is way higher than the rest, when this happens it is generally their "home" faction --though not necessarily.
Yeah, the problem is, these guys are all merchants and now not attackable.
Updated.
Unfortunately there is no consistent rule for NPC being attackable or not. This NPC must of been attackable at one time (if the faction hits listed previously were correct) but then again it could of just been misinformation that was never contradicted until now.
As of 9/16/03 Bilbus Briar is no longer lvl 30. He now cons red to a 37 Ranger, cannot be Harmonied, hits for upwards of 132 and does agro the surrounding guards (though not Brother Nallin, oddly enough). Whether or not he is a place holder for Watchman Drixlin (sp?) remains to be seen, as I have been unable to kill him to see. Happy hunting.
Edit: Came back later and indeed Drixlin was in Bilbus' spot. Was at 9pm gametime and he has some text which says he will disappear when the dial reads 8 (or somesuch thing) which I take to mean he despawns at 8am gametime.
Also, despite what RaeinOfTorv says (a couple of posts down from here) Dexlin is indeed a gnome and Capt. Linarius was at the top of the tower when Dexlin was in Bilbus' location.
I'm still trying to figure out what faction he's on... *sigh* but I'm starting to toy with the idea of just killing him to find out. Problem is killing him without aggroing all the guards around him - probably have to try a similar tactic to that used for the named Freeport Militia guy pallies need to kill for some big quest - someone aggroes the guards, pulls them to SK zone. In the meantime I aggro Bilbis, pull him up the coast and smack him down.
Problem is I killed SOMETHING in SK which dropped my faction with him to the point where he'll no longer sell to me. I'm not sure if killing him will help the faction but it should at least answer the question for me.
Hes place holder for theGnomish watchman that gives the box for the quest for the watchman boots, anyone on the nameless who can kill him and mind helping me do the quest? shoot me a tell
Not totally true. The guard isn't gnomish and Briar doesn't have to die in order for the guard to appear. The guard randomly spawns at night depending on wether or not the captain is on the top of the tower or at the base (he spawns more often when the captain is at the bottom, I believe). I have only seen him at night and only twice.