Proprietor of The Blind Bard, a traveler's inn at the crossroads of the Triboar Trail and the High Road, near Leilon.
A somewhat well-known Minstrel and Storyteller up and down the High Road between Baldur's Gate and Luskan.
Kidnapped by the Cult of Talos to placate the Death Knight Emberlost with music, blinded in a strike by Talos upon the Tower of Storms, scarred by the event - marking three bolts down his face, the outer two searing his eyes.
The cultists employed at the Wayside Inn who gave him over to Fheralai Stormsworn also imprisoned the other owners - upon freeing, these sought to turn over ownership and semi-retire, while Tarbin took the place as his, renaming it The Blind Bard.