Desmond Pierce

Desmond Pierce is a human eldritch knight and a player character in the "What We Do Beneath The Moon" game set in Tepest (a part of the plane of Ravenloft) in the Teshol campaign setting. Desmond is a Grindwall guard who stopped at The Wrong Turn Inn on his way to Elchezar and was transported into Tepest. 
== Appearance and Personality ==
Desmond is a very tall human man with pale skin, auburn hair, and blue eyes. Despite his height and strength he is not particularly bulky. He wears the traditional navy and silver Grindwall guard uniform, which includes heavy chainmail and a firearm. His preferred weapon is a large longsword. He typically goes by Desmond, though close friends might be able to get away with calling him "Des" and superiors in the guard can call him by his last name. 
His expression typically rests somewhere between a frown and a scowl. Desmond is gruff, aggressive, rude, defensive, and generally unpleasant. He is quick to anger and tends to hold grudges. Due to his upbringing in Grindwall, he is also xenophobic and strongly claims to be against the use of magic. He is dismissive of some non-human races (like gnomes), bewildered about others (like genasi) and outright antagonistic to some (like tieflings). On his better days, Desmond could be described as a salt-of-the-earth fighter indoctrinated into a problematic society. Most days you could probably just call him an asshole and no one, not even Desmond himself, would disagree. 
Desmond's feelings about his job have not been fully revealed, but he seems to have mixed opinions - he does genuinely appear to take pride in his station, but perhaps its not as simple as that. Little is known about his personal life except that he lives in Grindwall with his mother, and apparently provides for his mother in some capacity. 
Despite Desmond's gruff exterior (and interior), the man is actually fairly intelligent. He speaks like a common person but is reasonably quick to understand strategy games and mechanical devices, and claims he is able to repair his own gun, though with difficulty. He seems to respect science and engineering, but is suspicious of magic, religion, and anything supernatural. 
== Backstory ==
Desmond is from Grindwall and at some point joined the Grindwall military. He currently works as a guard and lives in town with his mother. 
He mentioned that he was a soldier at one point, and is now a guard. 
== Relationships ==
later 
== Other Interesting Facts ==
Desmond likes stomping around in his big man boots and making a little or a lot of racket. 
* Thus far has not called a member of the party by their actual name 
* Claims that Grindwall's fog felt reassuring to him because it kept him safe when he was doing his job in the streets.
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