Elineh

Elineh (エーリネ, Erine) is a character in In the Land of Leadale. Elineh is a well-known Kobold merchant that travels across the lands via caravans that Cayna sometimes travels with. Elineh tends to wear round glasses and long robes.

Body
Elineh is a [Japanese] kobold, which gives him a similar appearance to a short, anthropomorphic dog with plantigrade limbs. Although small in size, he's no smaller than a human kid. His body fur is camel-brown in coloration covering the whole body, including his triangular ears with cream-colored tufts (the same color with his body fur in anime) on the top of his head and muzzle. His hands are similar to a human's in shape, but reveals a semi paw pad-like palms when he opens them. He has greyish brown eyes behind those circle-framed glasses.

Clothing
His attire throughout the story is composed of a knee-length merchant's trench coat in dull chestnut red while keeping his hoodie tucked behind and never wearing it. Elineh wears dark brown pants and nutmeg-brown leather shoes as a matching pair. In the light novel and manga, he's illustrated sometimes carrying his backpack and belt bag as part of his merchant getup. In the anime, he's never seen carrying the earlier-mentioned items wherever he goes.

Biography
A kobold merchant who leads a caravan and travels around the country while owning a big trading company. He gets well-acquainted with Cayna in a remote village, but, despite her high status and strong skills & abilities, he teaches her the value of money and the general market price. He becomes good friends with Cayna later, sometimes asking for her help as a bodyguard to escort the caravan. Cayna, on the other hand, sometimes happens to tag along or hitch a ride towards the same route as her destination before parting ways.

The store he owns is quite large even in Felskeiro, and the chairman does not have to go outside himself. It's unclear if he has magic or an item, but he has a wife of the same family who can even disguise himself as a human.

Relationships

 * Cayna:
 * Arbiter:
 * Elineh's Wife:
 * Caerick:
 * Idzik:

Abilities
Most of his skills and abilities revolve around selling and trading while he runs a shop of his own. He has no combat skills and abilities, which is why he hires bodyguards to escort and protect the caravan. Due to being an expert merchant, he has many connections and sometimes acts as Cayna's information broker.
 * Special skills:
 * Mercantilism
 * Trading
 * Broker

Trivia

 * Kobolds in Japanese art and media are often illustrated as small, dog-like people with an aptitude for being merchants, traders, or scouts.
 * Compared to the Western version, which is reptilian in general appearance, Japanese kobolds are a "mis-illustration and mistranslation" of the folklore creature used in a popular MMO-RPG, Dungeons, and Dragons, by the time its concept reached Japan. Earlier art concept in the west suggests that they came up first with a dog-like appearance before replacing it with the finalized reptilian concept.