Happs Bydon

*"Open up, or we'll toss in some fire and speed your asses up!"*

*-Happs to Oleg*

### Relationships

The Stag Lord (Lord), Kressle (Boss, Sometimes Lover), Oleg Leveton (Victim), Svetlana Leveton (Victim)

### Died

4710 AR (Oleg's Trading Post; Bisected by Alden Felstad)

## Campaign

### First Appearance

Kingmaker Episode 01: Brambles & Bandits

Happs Bydon was a bandit who tormented Oleg's Trading Post and its proprietors. A member of the Stag Lord's mob, he was quickly shown the error of his ways by Alden Felstad. That's code for he got cut in half.

## Description

Happs was a greasy, athletic figure. With a short trimmed beard and patchy, leather clothes, he's every inch the image of a bandit goon.

## Personality

Happs was an overconfident, foul-mouthed figure that thoroughly enjoyed his role of a bandit. With few aspirations of his own, Happs was content in his position as the second biggest fish in the Thorn Ford bandit camp. In combat, Happs would often shout out boasts and vicious threats that he could not actually conceivably actually go through with.

## Abilities

Happs was not a particularly skilled or intelligent combatant; he was trained in the use of a bow, and often carried Alchemist's Fire bottles with him— though he usually intended to throw it at his own horses in an effort to panic them as a distraction, rather than to use them on opponents.

## History

Happs turned to a life of banditry after he was caught running a protection racket in Restov while also, in theory, serving as a soldier and city guard. He fled the city when he learned that the law was coming for him, abandoning a wife and two children to suffer the shame of his crimes. He found that banditry agreed with him—he quite enjoyed the outdoors, and the occasional tumble with his new boss, Kressle, was nice too. In the month of Neth, or Fantasy November, in the year of 4709 AR, Happs, Kressle and the Thorn Ford bandits made their way to Oleg's Trading Post, where they intimidated him and his wife into paying them "taxes". They continued making monthly visits, each time growing more and more lax. By Calistril of 4710, 3 months later, Happs and 3 other bandits entered the Trading Post in order to "collect taxes". They were sprung upon by the Kingmakers, and Happs was promptly bisected by Alden Felstad.

## Relationships

### Kressle

Happs had an affair with Kressle, his boss; one he took more seriously than she did. Though he suspected she was working for another bandit of even higher ranking than herself, he did not particularly mind, nor care enough to ask questions.

### The Stag Lord

Despite being one of the Stag Lord's soldiers, he knew very little about the man, or even if he actually existed. He carried his broach, given to him by Kressle, and ultimately did his bidding, but he never met the Stag Lord in person, and was killed before his call for bandits made him more well-known among the bandits of the Stolen Lands. All Happs knew was that he worked for Kressle, and she might work for someone else.

### The Levetons

Happs was cruel to Oleg and Svetlana, and made it a habit of making humiliating comments towards Svetlana while bullying her husband during the tax collections. The two were very pleased at his death, with Oleg going so far as to try hang his skeleton from the walls of the Trading Post in order to ward other bandits off.