Selwyn Cooper

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**Selwyn**: *"Something that my father… one of the only things that my father told me when I was young was that life is what you make it. And unfortunately he didn't live by that himself, and so far to be honest, I haven't been living by that myself either. It's like I've been letting the past define the man that I am… and that's not… good. So… um… I just wanted to let you know that I'm gonna try and be a better person."*
**Leila**: *"You've always been a good person Ser Selwyn, you just don't know it."*
— The party discussing what to do next after arriving back to Shinrin from New Forlonde[src]

Selwyn Cooper grew up in a broken home in the town of Shinrin; with an abusive, alcoholic father and a mostly distant mother. And one fateful night, Selwyn's life was suddenly made even more miserable. One of his father's outbursts when Selwyn was but 9 years old, ended in his father cutting Selwyn’s face with a dinner knife and then shoving him into their fireplace, severely burning Selwyn’s chest and lower face. Selwyn's father, Willken, ended up disappearing from town one night after that incident, leaving Marian, Selwyn's mother, to run the family company 'Cooper's Woodware' all by herself.

After helping his mother run the company for a while, Selwyn decided to enlist to become one of The Craftsmen of Kelmarth, a protector of the realm, where he was posted as a guard outside The Tomb of the Fallen Warriors. Ser Selwyn Cooper dreams of doing something worthwhile with his life, but it feels like he's stuck in the same depressing world his father was. Selwyn grew angry and disappointed with life during his time guarding the tomb but finally accepted the fact that he’d probably be guarding this worthless tomb in this worthless town for the rest of his worthless life.

## Physical Description

Selwyn’s father, Willken, was an abusive alcoholic. And one of his outbursts when Selwyn was but 9 years old, ended in Willken cutting Selwyn’s face with a dinner knife and then shoving him into their fireplace, severely burning Selwyn’s chest and lower face. If anything the scarring has gotten worse as Selwyn has aged resulting in horrid burn scars and his facial hair to become drastically blotchy and patchy over his face. Add to that his tied-up, unkempt, bright yellow hair affected by poliosis and you can see why Selwyn generally isn’t the most popular. He wears his knightly armor proud although he tends to wear a hooded cape over top, casting a low shadow over his face.

## Backstory

### Early Life

Selwyn was born to Willken and Marian Cooper, bucket & barrel makers in the small town of Shinrin. Willken secretly was an alcoholic and very depressed with his lifestyle and livelihood, continuously coming home late at night and abusing both Marian and Selwyn. One fateful night when Selwyn was but 9 years old, Willken came home drunk and proceeded to beat Marian in the family quarters. Selwyn decided to step in for once in his life and not let his father hurt his mother like this any longer and tried to get Willken away from Marian. The drunkenness and rage clouded Wilken's love for his family and he responded by grabbing a knife from nearby and slashing though Selwyn’s visage before backhanding him right into the room’s fireplace, severely burning Selwyn’s chest and lower face. Sometime after this, Willken didn’t return home from the tavern one night, leaving Marian and Selwyn to pick up the family business and get on with their lives alone. Selwyn was the happiest boy alive that his father had to leave, but even though Marian was abused, Selwyn could tell that she missed Willken very much.

From then on, Selwyn would do only two things each week. Go to school on the weekdays,  and then help out with the day-to-day runnings of Cooper’s Woodware after school and on weekends. Selwyn never was with others his age and didn’t really have any friends, putting that act down to how unattractive and disfigured he must look, never mind the fact that he was constantly mocked and ridiculed by his peers, especially girls.

### Joining the Craftsmen

As time went on, Selwyn got sick of his day to day life and felt that he needed to do something better and more important. So he joined up with the Shinrin outpost of The Craftsmen of Kelmarth. He never found the training too hard at all and actually started to feel like this was what he was meant to do. He actually for once in his life started to get along with the people we worked with, even though they would call him scar-related nicknames behind his back. Then, when he finally finished training and was ready to go and do something, he was assigned to guard The Tomb of the Fallen Warriors, in Shinrin). The Tomb of the Fallen Warriors, filled with the remains of some of Kelmarth’s most renown champions didn’t help at all, reminding him that some people out there were actually doing important things, winning battles, saving lives, while he was just guarding this tomb. Even worse that that though was the fact that his superior officer, Ser Thomas Daere, constantly was getting Selwyn to do all the odd and dirty jobs the other Craftsmen never wanted to do. Selwyn grew angry and disappointed with life once again, and accepted the fact that he’d probably be guarding this worthless tomb in this worthless town for the rest of his worthless life.

One of the only solaces that Selwyn has is the fact that his shift is from dawn to dusk so he does have time to go and have a drink afterwards at the local tavern, The Thriving Vineyard. Unfortunately, though, that’s also when the rest of the Craftsmen, that have actually been doing things during their day, are also getting a drink. Selwyn usually tried to mind his own business. Just to grab a drink, perhaps a quick meal and then sit down in the corner of the room. But alas the other Craftsmen, especially Ser Gothar Ironmark and his gang if he’s there never seem to be able to leave him alone. This has resulted in Selwyn, thanks to a good relationship with the tavern owner, Naria Celestine, usually bringing his food and drink up into his small room of the tavern to have it in silence while sitting watching out the small window onto the rest of the town.

On one of his days guarding the tomb Ser Selwyn managed to stop a few thieves before Ser Gothar then came and took all of the praise for it, earning himself a promotion in the process. This was only one of many times where Selwyn would be undermined by Gothar. Gothar was always either making fun of Selwyn and spreading insidious lies and made-up rumors, or straight-up calling Selwyn himself a liar and commenting badly on his work-ethic. These instances caused many Craftsmen and even townsfolk of Shinrin to not like or trust Selwyn, making him feel all the more outcast and lonely.

### Meeting the Party

One night at the Thriving Vineyard, after knocking-off from guard duty, Selwyn encountered a small Tabaxi who started to inquire about one of Selwyn's ancestors that used to live Shinrin. And soon after this Selwyn also met a Firbolg bard and young monk who had been sent to him by Naria to find stories for their ballads. Selwyn tried his best to recount his most enthralling encounters, but none of them managed to be worthy enough for the bard and monk to turn into a performance, so they instead opted to make up one.

The next day when Ser Selwyn arrived at the tomb for his watch, he noticed a few small serpents inside and then realised that some of the relics were missing. The snakes then attacked Selwyn and he managed to fight them off alone before then again running into the Tabaxi, Firbolg and monk as they had come to the tomb to see Selwyn. The four of them managed to fight off the remaining snakes together before then noticing that the snakes had actually been taking relics out of the tomb.

The three introduced themselves as Shelter, Cor, and Ash, and offered their assistance in finding where the snakes may have stowed the missing items. So the four of them together ventured into the jungle to try and track down the trail of the snakes. They ended up meeting a young woman named Leila who then also proceeded to offer her assistance. Together the five of them faced off against a massive serpent before finding evidence that kobolds may be behind this.

Through various small endeavors to find the items missing from the tomb, the group eventually discovered that a kobold called Vixadoo had been behind it, and that he and his tribe had been using trained snakes to steel materials from the tomb for them to then melt down into metal. The group, led by Ser Selwyn, brought the kobold to Ser Thomas who imprisoned Vixadoo in a cage. They then were called to see Lord Jakku who thanked them for their efforts and asked for them to hunt down a tiger for him. Vixadoo was sentenced to death.

After this, the group stayed in town for a couple of days to restock and relax again before heading out. During this time, Selwyn got very drunk and opened up to Leila about his hate for his father and told her the story of how he ended up being as scarred as he was. Leila in turn also opened up a bit about never knowing her own parents. Leila then excused herself from the bar and was replaced with Ser Thomas who sat down in her place. For some reason, due to Selwyn's drunken state and also the fact that in these last couple of days Selwyn had seen more action that his whole job as a Craftsman, Selwyn went off at Ser Thomas and threatened to leave the Craftsmen all together. Ser Thomas was shocked. Selwyn then quickly apologized and excused himself to get some air.

That same night, Cor found himself fighting Ser Gothar out in front of The Thriving Vineyard while people were placing bets on who the victor would be. Ser Selwyn, still very intoxicated, proceeded to bet every bit of coin to his name on Cor, much to Leila's shock. Cor ended up winning the fight by casting a sleep spell on Gothar, and in turn Ser Selwyn ended up with more money than he had ever owned.

They then headed out and slayed the tiger as well as doing a few various other odd jobs for Lord Jakku before he then recommended them to Ser Thomas for the bigger job of transporting supplies to the city of New Forlonde and then escorting settlers from New Forlonde back to Shinrin again afterwards. Ser Selwyn was also promoted to the rank of Surveyor for the Craftsmen. Selwyn excitedly agreed to this bigger job and so did Leila, Cor & Ash, but Shelter declined the offer and headed home.

The group then once again regrouped for a bit of downtime at The Thriving Vineyard. During this time, Ser Selwyn and Ash were approached by a group of Blackheart Orcs who were very agitated and demanded that Selwyn and Ash get up from their seats a leave so that the Orcs could take their place. Selwyn refused and was pushed to the ground by the leader of the Orcs, which lead into a full-blown bar brawl between the Blackhearts and Selwyn & his companions. It turned out that Ser Cleytus Theodoros had coaxed the Orcs into attacking Selwyn in the first place, and Cleytus was scolded by Ser Thomas while the Blackhearts were made to leave Shinrin.

### Journeying to New Forlonde

Ser Selwyn, Leila, Cor, and Ash then left for New Forlonde with their wagon driver Anatolley, bringing a supply of wood to drop off at the docks there as well as bringing a chest of goods to bring to Captain Cosmo. On the way they were met with what seemed to be a couple of undead people who at first seemed passive but then turned very aggressive when provoked. The group ended up attacking them and then later finding out that they must have come from Mezro Swamp. Leila also told the group that she was in fact an Aasimar.

Not long afterwards they found themselves in the middle of a confrontation between a group of Ince'varians attacking an army of Grungs. Most of the companions straight-away sided with the Ince'varians and started to attack the Grungs but Selwyn tried to resolve this peacefully and calm the Ince'varians while letting the Grungs escape. This idea didn't end well and both the Ince'varians and the Grungs quickly became hostile towards the companions. The encounter ended with all the Grungs dead and all the Ince'varians subsequently tied up and captured by the group. The group kept them tied up as they rested for the night, with the intent of turning them into the Craftsmen upon arriving in New Forlonde. But, as night fell on their camp, the were attacked by a group of Batiri and the Ince'varians managed to escape in the battle.

The four of them finally arrived in New Forlonde and booked rooms at The Vintage Violin before then splitting up for a while to do a few various tasks around the town. Selwyn and Ash headed towards the Craftsmen watchtower and met with Captain Cosmo to let him know they had arrived and to deliver the chest.

Upon returning to The Vintage Violin, two of the ladies at the bar struck up conversation with Selwyn and one of them asked if she could come back to Selwyn's room with him. Selwyn flusteredly declined her offer and embarrassingly snuck away back to his room as soon as he could. He discovered that one of them were married, and her husband was away sailing at sea.

The next day the group once again went their separate ways. Ser Selwyn met with Dymas Stavropoulos, the self-appointed leader of the settlers, and made plans to leave with the settlers back for Shinrin in a couple of days. Selwyn also stopped by the laundry-house to get his clothes washed when he was surprisingly met with one of the women who had been flirting with him the night before. She offered to wash his clothes for him and not wanting to be rude, Selwyn let her. She made him wait in their waiting room while she was doing the washing. When the washing was done she returned to the waiting room, and threw Selwyn's clothes to the side before undressing herself and quickly coming onto Selwyn. Selwyn abruptly stopped this, standing up, picking up his clothes and leaving before once again awkwardly apologizing to her.

After leaving, Selwyn headed to the docks and ran into Ash who had nearly been kidnapped by Ince'varian slavers on their ship called The Marietta. Shortly after finding Ash the two of them headed once again back to The Vintage Violin and met up with Leila and Cor. Leila and Cor told them of a plot they had uncovered, a group of Drow were planning to steal evidence from one of the Craftsmen's warehouses that night. Selwyn recommended  alerting Captain Cosmo which Leila was very hesitant to do, but she finally gave in and the group left to let the Craftsmen know. They met with Captain Cosmo and he charged them and a small group of other Craftsmen with the job of guarding the warehouse that night while also tracking down and stopping the Drow who were trying to steal.

That night, Selwyn, Cor and Ash ran into a Drow and followed him to a rooftop where a skirmish began. The Drow used magic to darken the whole area to the point that no-one could see anything and they had to resort to blind tactics to eventually defeat the Drow. Cor ended up killing him, not listening to Selwyn when he wanted to keep him alive. The three of them then headed to the warehouse where a larger skirmish then began. Multiple Drow and Craftsmen lives were lost and the leader of the Drow, one called Agar, escaped into the night with a stolen artifact.

The next morning Selwyn received a letter telling him to go alone to the edge of town and saying that he would meet someone there. Instead of going alone, Selwyn recruited Leila and Ash to go along with him.  He refused to let Cor come along as he had been acting recklessly the whole trip, killing when he shouldn't have, starting up bar brawls, and all in all just not acting like someone under the charge of a Craftsman should be acting. So the three of them left to the edge of town and where then nearly killed as they were attacked by displacer beasts that they narrowly managed to defeat. It turned out that the letter had been a ploy by Agar to lure Ser Selwyn there and kill him.

As night fell, the companions spent their last night in New Forlonde at The Thirst, drinking and getting to know the settlers. Selwyn joined in on a card game and started to gamble, which really didn't turn out as well as the last time he bet money, him losing most of his coin this time around.

A day later the companions gathered their supplies and got the settlers ready to leave. Before doing so however, Selwyn quickly visited a place called Club Petal that he had been hearing a lot about. Upon arriving there Selwyn realized that Club Petal was in fact a brothel, but he still managed to fill up his water-skin with bourbon from the bar before hurrying back to join the caravan back home.

### Returning Home

As Selwyn, his companions and the settlers headed back towards Shinrin, it became apparent that they were all hoping to celebrate Midsummer's Eve with a party while out on the road. Selwyn gave Leila the task of planning the whole thing and organizing everyone as he didn't want any part of it. As Midsummer's Eve fell though, the unthinkable happened. The whole camp turned against Selwyn, everyone started calling him a monster and he was attacked even by Cor and Ash. The only person who tried protecting him was Leila. Leila brought him into her tent and then surprisingly started to proclaim her own love for him. Leila embraced him, complimented him and didn't stop telling her how much she loved him and how handsome he was. Selwyn took this as Leila making fun of him, and stormed out of the camp after telling her that he thought they were friends.

It turned out that they has been attacked by Fey on Midsummer's Eve. The Fey had covered the camp in magic and had made Selwyn look like a donkey to everyone in the camp. Nobody except Selwyn, Cor and Ash even remembered that night, and when Selwyn brought up the events with Leila it turned out that she couldn't remember one bit about it. This caused the bond between Selwyn and Leila to falter a bit, Selwyn becoming more awkward around her as he wasn't sure how she felt about him.

Eventually they made their way to the Midway Watchtower and found that more and more spider webs were starting to appear along the road. They kept on the track before they were suddenly attacked by Chitines and giant spiders. Everybody in the caravan was separated and Selwyn found himself at the front of the group, fending these monsters off with a small group of Settlers by his side before they were  caught up in one of the spider's webs and pulled up into the treetops.

Cor managed to free Selwyn and the settlers, and then Selwyn had to grab a bow and rush to try and free Ash from a drider. Thankfully they managed to get Ash back and defeat the remaining enemies, but Selwyn suffered a massive blow as it turned out that one of the settlers, Helios Totos, had been killed. Selwyn couldn't believe he had let someone die, that he had failed to keep those that he was meant to look after, safe. Slowly, the caravan regrouped and got ready to finish their journey.

A few leagues away from Shinrin, Selwyn and the caravan ran into Ser Gothar, who was heading out on a job with a couple other Craftsmen. Straight away, Ser Gothar acted as though Ser Selwyn was incompetent, and ordered him off of the road so that they may pass. This was the last straw for Selwyn who was still suffering from the loss of Helios and didn't have time to deal with this, and Selwyn punched Ser Gothar square in the face. This nearly caused a fight between the two until Leila quickly defused the situation, and the two groups went their separate ways.

The caravan finally arrived in Shinrin and the settlers started to settle in. After meeting with Ser Thomas, Selwyn met with Leila, Cor and Ash at The Thriving Vineyard to discuss what they would do next. The four of them decided that they wanted to stick together, and agreed to keep doing jobs for the Craftsmen for the foreseeable future. Selwyn let them know that they were the first real friends that he had ever had. That night Ash spoke to Selwyn about Midsummer's Eve, and asked for relationship advice from Selwyn, telling him that he had fallen in love with one of the Fey attackers.

### Visiting the Old Hag

After a while of downtime around Shinrin for a change, it became apparent to Selwyn that Leila, Cor and Ash wanted to go and visit Covenara, an old hag that lived alone a few leagues from Shinrin. At first Selwyn was hesitant to journey with them there but then realised that if they did indeed go to her, she may be able to help him get rid of his scars and make him more liked by people and less awkward. So eventually he agreed and organized boats for their journey. Shortly before leaving, Leila properly introduces the group to one of her friends, Stephanos Boora, and also tells them of another friend, Endre Malia, who had recently gone missing in the surrounding jungle. Selwyn also gets told that Ser Shemoda, Lord Jakku's son, has also gone missing while out discussing a treaty with the Orcs, and Ser Thomas ends up charging Selwyn and his companions with searching for these two lost men after briefly meeting with the hag on their way. So Selwyn, Leila, Cor, Ash and Stephanos leave Shinrin once more.

One night after stopping for camp on the way to the hag, Cor was killed after being savagely attacked by an unknown beast while on his watch. This also hit Selwyn hard as not just someone under his charge, but a friend under his charge was now dead. Selwyn started to second guess himself and question if leading people on surveys and quests for the Craftsmen was really what he should be doing. As they were close to Covenara, the group decided to bring Cor's body to her with the slim chance that she might be able to resurrect him back to life.

They met with Covenara, and she did indeed bring Cor back to life, but in doing so she scarred Selwyn, Leila and Ash's arms with a covenant, that she'd be able to call upon them each for a request whenever she would like, and that they would have to do it for her. She also offered to do something for the each of them, also for a cost. Selwyn asked for a way to remove his scars and she gave him a salve that he could rub on his scars to make them disappear. The cost for this however was that he had to return to her after his current quest and work for her, doing whatever she would like. Selwyn refused this offer, but surprisingly, Covenara still let him keep the salve, saying that she would even still refill it for him if he kept returning to her.

### Searching for Shemoda & Endre

Selwyn and the group then headed further into the jungle to search for Shemoda and Endre. After searching for a while to no avail, they happened across tracks leading to an Orc encampment. Things went sideways from there however when Leila decided to go in alone to scout, and ended up getting herself captured. Cor then decided to also go in alone to try and disguise himself and rescue Leila, but ended up somehow getting himself in a fight with the chieftain's son. So it was up to Selwyn, Ash and Stephanos to come up with a plan. The three of them ended up rushing in under the cover of fire, and freeing Leila. A battles then ensued with the Blackhearts as they fought back against the companions. Cor instead of staying and helping to fight, ran off to leave the party to their demise, saying that he didn't want conflict and had been trying to resolve this mess peacefully. The group ended up slaying a few Blackhearts before then escaping an capturing the chieftain's son. They then proceeded to interrogate him and found reason to believe that Ser Shemoda might be in Ghelgec.

They left the Blackheart camp and started to head towards Ghelgec, only to find themselves attacked by giant bugs and flying kobolds. The kobolds managed to escape with Selwyn's pack, meaning that the group was now lost in the jungle without maps or many supplies. They then decided to follow the kobolds and try to retrieve Selwyn's belongings, which led them through a collection of tunnels into a large cavern filled with piles of bat guano, a material that is surprisingly worth its weight in gold. Trekking further into the cavern led them to a giant hoard of treasure, guarded by a massive dragon and the flying kobolds. As it turned out, the dragon was only an illusion, and the group managed to defeat the kobolds, retrieve Selwyn's pack and gather up a load of treasure in the process.

### Guests of the Drow

Under the cover of darkness one night while the companions were sleeping, the group was ambushed by a ship filled with Drow that referred to themselves as Drow from the houses Tessitore and Sociale. Leila managed to speak to those in leadership and made a deal with them. The Drow would take the companions through the large lakes in the caverns below the surface, which should lead them right to Ghelgec. In return, the companions would track down a special red dye for them to use in the making of their silks and materials. So Selwyn and his companions went aboard the ship as it traveled to make a stop at their underground Drow city before continuing to Ghelgec.

Upon arriving at the Drow city, each member of the group was given a room to stay in for their duration there, and then were taken to the main hallroom where Drow were singing, dancing and being merry with food and drink. Selwyn proceeded to go with Leila and see the Drow's queen, Lady Fanshalu Sociale, who told them that the Drow would indeed be happy to take them to Ghelgec if Selwyn agreed to let a few Drow settlers go back to Shinrin with him. Selwyn said that he couldn't make any promises, but said that he would bring the matter up with Lord Jakku and try his best to convince him. Lady Fanshalu was happy with this. They then returned to the hall where a Drow called Absah Társadalmi introduced himself to Selwyn and offered to take him down to the room where the drinks were kept and give him some of the Drow's finest wine. Selwyn happily went along and started to drink cups upon cups of wine with Absah. Absah then offered to show him The Warrior's Lounge, a place where only the finest of warriors would go to have the finest drinks and enjoy each other's company collectively. It was here that a very drunk Selwyn made a complete fool of himself before then knocking himself unconscious.

Eventually his companions managed to find him and bring him back to him room to sleep it off there. Selwyn was out of action for most the next day, recovering from his hangover. But that night, a female Drow made her way into his room and offered to sleep with him, suggesting that she could tie him up and experiment new ways of making love. Selwyn was very freaked out by this and declined every one of her offers. Selwyn ended up lying to the woman, who turned out to be called Gulfi, and said that he was already in love with Leila. He then left his room and headed to Leila's were she also went along with the story that they were in love so that she could in fact lose two unwanted Drow males that had also suggested sexual activity in her chambers. So, in that random turn of events, Selwyn found himself locked in Leila's room with her as those both hid from the Drow and waited it out.

Not long afterwards however, their room was attacked by small gelatinous cubes that then proceeded to appear in the hallway and other rooms as well. Selwyn, the companions and a group of Drow fought them off and everyone eventually got to go to sleep.

The morning afterwards, the group left with the Drow to continue down the underwater river towards Ghelgec. On the way there, they were attacked by all manner of underwater creatures, but fortunately managed to fend themselves off. And they were attacked again just before reaching Ghelgec by some sort of parasite that tried to implant itself into Selwyn's eye. One of the Drow thankfully managed to get it out, but it turned out that that Drow was actually Gulfi, who had disguised herself as a man to say on the boat. Gulfi started to profess her love for Selwyn the rest of the trip, which Selwyn tried to shut down. No matter how often he would refuse her though, she would keep trying to be with him. This led Selwyn into isolation for most of the trip on the Drow boat, and he started to fall dangerously deeper into alcoholism.

There was a point though when he realised what drinking was doing to him, and he decided to quickly throw all of his alcohol overboard before he had time to think about it. Selwyn then spoke to Leila and told her of his trouble, asking her to help him by not letting him get into situations where drinking was possible. He then vowed to not drink any alcoholic substances again.

When they eventually got to Ghelgec, both Absah and Gulfi requested to continue onwards with the group. Selwyn denied their requests and all of a sudden a fight began between Gulfi, Absah, and the rest of Drow as Gulfi became paranoid that they would try to kill her on the trip home and she made the first attack against the captain of the ship. Selwyn, Leila, Cor, Ash, and Stephanos helped calm the conflict down as much as they could before leaving the Drow all together to continue their search.

### The Trek to Ghelgec

On the trail through Ghelgec to the Orc encampments, the party was faces with strange magical doppelgangers of themselves who portrayed the things that hated most about themselves. Selwyn's doppelganger was verbally abusive, angry and overall very hateful. Most of the companions fell to their own doppelgangers, but Selwyn and Cor managed to defeat their own, then going on to save the others and defeat their doppelgangers as well. Seeing this angry side of himself effected Selwyn quite a lot, and he started to make a conscious effort to try and suppress that side of him, to stay calm in situations instead of becoming more like what his father was like.

The unexpected happened when they got closer to the Orc camps. The companions ran into The Demon Orc of the Orc War. Apparently he had retired from his raiding days and instead had turned to training the young Orc warriors. Seeing The Demon Orc caused something to snap in Selwyn's mind. He'd heard so many terrible stories from the Orc War of this very Orc brutally murdering countless innocents in Shinrin. The Demon Orc was also the one to kill many of the Craftsmen that now lay dead in The Tomb of the Fallen Warriors, and was the very Orc that also gravely injured Ser Thomas and ended up eventually slaying Lord Shinrin Sr. Selwyn now had a chance to get revenge for everyone in his town, for everyone he had spent years of his life guarding. So, against the pleas of his companions, Selwyn attacked The Demon Orc. Cor and Ash however, tried to stop Selwyn, in the end they even knocked him to the ground so he couldn't try and kill The Demon Orc. Selwyn kept trying though and with Leila's help in the end, The Demon Orc was slain.

They ended up arriving in the main Blackheart encampment of Ghelgec and finding not Shemoda, but a severely injured and malnourished Endre. They freed him from the Orcs and brought him back into the jungle. While this emancipation was happening, Selwyn found out that Ash had accidentally awoken a long-forgotten race called the Yuan-Ti from their slumber, and in an effort to escape from the snake-people, Stephanos was turned to stone.

The loss of Stephanos caused Leila to become very depressed, and she ended up drinking a lot herself. Selwyn tried to talk her out of turning to drink as a way to get through her grief but she didn’t listen an instead tried to push herself out of a tree. Selwyn tried to save her from doing so, but in turn he himself fell out of the tree 15-feet down to the jungle floor below. Selwyn recovered alright but Leila felt terrible for this, and apologized for not listening to him.

As they journeyed back from rescuing Endre, the companions came across a small cottage where they were invited and given a place to sleep. In the end it turned out that the people residing in the cottage were in fact hags and they used magic to play with the minds of the companions as night fell. They managed to escape from the house and the hags, but Selwyn lost all of his belongings in the scuffle.

### Deception in the Ranks

The companions finally found the young Lord Shemoda as it turned out he had been captured alongside a group of Orcs by Ince'varians. Selwyn and his friends defeated the Ince'varians and set the captives free. Lord Shemoda agreed to travel back to New Forlonde with the group as well as a female Orc that he had formed a relationship with. On the trek back through the jungle, Lord Shemoda told Selwyn that it had actually been Craftsmen from New Forlonde that had handed him over to the Ince'varians in the first place, making it apparent that there were traitors in the ranks of the Craftsmen of Kelmarth. The group made a plan to keep Lord Shemoda hidden when they got back to the city, and they wouldn't tell anybody that they were with him. Selwyn planned to somehow alert Captain Cosmo of the traitors, as he was one of the only Craftsmen in New Forlonde that Selwyn could trust.

Shortly after this, Selwyn decided to throw away his salve and embrace who he was.

As the arrived to the city and settled into The Vintage Violin, Selwyn and Cor left the companions in their rooms as the two of them headed to the watchtower to alert the Captain. On their way to the tower, Selwyn and Cor and to fight off a group of mercenaries that had been hired to attack them by Agar.

They got the Captain Cosmo and alerted him that they had Ser Shemoda safely guarded in one of The Vintage Violin's rooms and also alerted him of the deception in the ranks of the Craftsmen. Captain Cosmo was bewildered as to how this could be possible and came to the conclusion that all of the Ince'varians in the ranks of the Craftsmen must be the ones to blame. So that very same night, Captain Cosmo rounded up all the Craftsmen he could trust to hunt down all of the Ince'varian Craftsmen and imprison them. Selwyn wasn't for this idea in the slightest, and felt that this prejudice towards all of the Ince'varians soldiers wasn't warranted as some of them had families in the city and that some of them could very well be completely innocent. But Captain Cosmo held tight to his command that not only every Ince'varian Craftsman, but every Ince'varian in New Forlonde should be rounded up. Selwyn ended up going along with the Captain's orders against his better judgement, and ended up being completely horrified as the events of the night transpired. Captain Cosmo, Selwyn, Cor, Ash, Endre and the Craftsmen tore down every door and rounded up every Ince'varian in the city. Selwyn was absolutely horrified by the sheer amount of violence and disregard for human life that most of the soldiers showed towards the Ince'varians.

Dawn came, and the raid as over. Later that day every single one of the Ince'varians were hung publicly, except for Captain Cosmo's wife, who Selwyn discovered was actually also an Ince'varian herself. Selwyn and the Craftsmen were praised as saviors for killing all of those people, most of whom were probably innocents. Selwyn himself was also promoted to the rank of Sergeant, a rank he wasn't even sure if he wanted anymore.

Selwyn and his companions then headed back to Shinrin, and upon arriving, heard word that they were actually meant to bring Lord Shemoda back with them, which they then had to go back to New Forlonde to go and do. Along these travels Selwyn thought of leaving the Craftsmen of Kelmarth all together, and starting up a mercenary-type group that would actually help people and didn't have to follow rules and laws that didn't make sense. Selwyn was still sick after seeing the utter distrust and racism against Ince'varians that the New Forlonde Craftsmen had and realised that he himself had also been prejudice against different races out in the world, primarily Orcs. Selwyn vowed to treat everyone as equals, and not make any assumptions anymore on people just because of where they come from. After speaking to his companions about his idea of starting a group, they all agreed to join him, and together they decided on a name, The People's Guard.

## Individuals of Importance

* **Leila DawnEyes****:** Companion turned close friend. Selwyn and Leila were able to bond over their issues with their parents and similar issues of rejection and being outcasts. Selwyn and Leila always have each others backs in any given situation and could always trust one another for a long time, but recently Selwyn has lost some trust in Leila and has discovered she has been keeping things from him.
* **Cor Pedra****:** Companion turned close friend. For a long time Selwyn and Cor would fight each other on any given matter and there was always tension between the two of them. But as they started to get to know each other more, each one accepted the other as who they were and began to understand where the other was coming from.
* **Ash Brield:** Companion turned close friend. Selwyn tried to become a reliable father figure for Ash and offer him advice wherever he needed it. Quickly though, Selwyn discovered that Ash didn't need a parent and instead needed a good friend that he could trust and depend on.
* **Marian Cooper****:** Selwyn’s mother. Selwyn has always been constantly surprised by his mother. Marian spent years in an abusive relationship and then after that relationship ended she started running a company all by herself. Selwyn still pops in every couple of days or so to say hi and see what he can help out with.
* **Willken Cooper****:** Selwyn’s father. Selwyn could tell that deep down his father was a good man, but he was always depressed and that lead him to always being drunk and not a great father at all. After the incident regarding Selwyn’s scars, Willken was only got worse until one night he never came home. No-one has seen him since.
* **Ser Thomas Daere****:** Fellow Craftsman of Kelmarth and Selwyn’s superior officer.
* **Ser Gothar Ironmark****:** Old night-watchman of The Tomb of the Fallen Warriors and bitter-rival of Selwyn. He’s lied and cheated Selwyn out of a promotion and mocks him almost daily in the local tavern.

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