Big Smile

Token Art of Big Smile

RosRay "Big Smile" Snow, or Big Smile for short, is a firbolg monk and a member of the Snow Drifters.

## Description

Feel free to change this page if this is your Player Character. This is purely based off what the token art shows and what I can remember.

Big Smile is a large firbolg. His fur is a dark grey and the fur around his knuckles is long gone from their abundant use in his younger days, and several scars on his face from his fighting days. He wears simple clothes that has been tended to over the years. He has a toned, muscular build, honed from years of training, beginning every day with a run and a plethora of push-ups. For his imposing stature, however, he has a jovial smile on his face at almost all times, to which his nickname Big Smile comes from.

Big Smile speaks slowly and methodically, and like his punches, are often straight and to the point. He refers to those smaller than him, especially Gabar, as "kid," regardless if they are his elder or not. He is eager to fight, even when the odds are stacked against him, and he is known for his catchphrase "We can take 'em," much to the annoyance of Gabar. In combat, he loves to throw caution to the wind and charge in, and is acutely aware of the positioning of himself and his allies to try to surround his enemies to their advantage. His disregard for caution has landed him in dangerous situations several times, such as rushing headfirst into a room within the duergar outpost and nearly having to fight Nildar Sunblight one on one.

## Relationships

Big Smile comes from Luskan, though is he has family there is unknown. He has ties to Jarlaxle and Xanathar, fighting in the underground fighting pits the crime bosses ran.

At some point, heading north, he met a wounded elven healer, who taught him Cure Wounds to heal the elf.

Big Smile found Gabar dying in the Lonelywoods shortly after arriving in Icewind Dale. The two have grown close, sharing a house, which Big Smile owns but Gabar resides in as well.

Of all the members of the Snow Drifters, he gets along well with all of them due to his jovial nature.

## Biography

### Pre-Icewind Dale

Big Smile comes from Luskan. along the Sword Coast, he made his living as a pit fighter in underground fighting rings, where he became semi-famous due to his successful career. Towards the end of his career, however, he started losing more fights and began accumulating debt. Eventually, he had a fight in Waterdeep, which was fixed. He was supposed to go down in the second round, and word of this leaked. Instead, Big Smile bet his remaining money on himself and knocked his opponent out in the first round, cashing him out big but ultimately betraying Jarlaxle and Xanathar in the process.

Big Smile fled north. On his trip, he came across a wounded and dying elven man, who instructed him how to perform Cure Wounds. Big Smile successfully cast the spell, saving the elf's life and learning a very potent spell in doing so.

### Arriving in Icewind Dale

Eventually, he crossed the Spine of the World into Icewind Dale, where he purchased a home in Bryn Shander. There, he began working as a logger, going into the nearby woods to collect lumber for buildings, firewood, shipyards, etc. In one such excursion, he found Gabar in the Lonelywood, covered in blood and dying. He saved Gabar's life and brought him back to Bryn Shander, where he let Gabar sleep on his couch. He maintains an honest living as a logger still, often having to provide for Gabar in the process.

### Joining the Snow Drifters

One day, Big Smile found a job posting for Adventurers, Mercenaries, Freelancers, Warriors, Investigators, Guards, Bruisers, Rat-catchers and Opportunists. Realizing he missed the exciting life of a fighter, he dragged Gabar to the meeting at the Northlook, where they met Sapphira, V and Quintus. Eventually, Hlin Trollbane arrived and gave them their first job. During the job, they encountered a group of goblin raiders, and realizing their complementary abilities, decided to stick together.

In the Snow Drifters, Big Smile acts as a front line fighter alongside Sapphira, often trying to draw the ire of enemies away from his allies, or positioning himself in advantageous fighting spots. Outside of combat, he acts as a mediator of the group, often trying to keep a level head when things get heated.

Big Smile was recognized almost instantly within the Luskan Arms by a man named Biff from his fighting days. Biff grew excited, shouting his name, during which Big Smile seemingly enjoyed the attention, recounting his old fighting days, regardless that they were supposed to be keeping a low profile. During this encounter, a hooded man left the Luskan Arms in a hurry. Shortly after, in the abandoned house of a zhentirim agent named Spider, the party found a pair of wanted posters for Big Smile and Gabar, learning that Big Smile had a 50,000 gp bounty on his head for betraying Jarlaxle.

In their adventures together, the party find a group of Chwingas in the Lonelywood. The creatures proved impossible to catch, being able to teleport at will, but one took a liking to Big Smile and befriended him.

When the party found the Black Cabin, Big Smile was inside when Sapphira activated a magical item that exploded, instantly killing Big Smile. He awoke in a place between life and death called the Border Ethereal, where he encountered Macreaduss, who told Big Smile the party must complete the Summer Star for their souls to move on. Learning he could communicate with the party by drawing in the snow, he told the party this. The party successfully completed the Summer Star, allowing Macreaduss to move on to the afterlife. For this, Lathander himself spoke to Big Smile, giving him his blessing and returning Big Smile to his mortal body.

In the Lost Spire, when the party found a room that could turn illusions into reality, an argument broke out when Vellynne stopped the party from using the room to create riches. Vellynne claimed the room to be unstable. Gabar, Big Smile and Ilikan wanted to use it one more time to create riches (Gabar and Big Smile wanted to pay off their bounties while Ilikan wanted diamonds for spell material components.) V, Quintus and Vellynne wanted the room to remain untouched until it could be studied or repaired, and Sapphira wanted to destroy it, believing it capable of creating aberrations or devils. After the argument, V assured Big Smile that paying off the bounty isn't necessary, that the Snow Drifters are his family now and they will do anything to protect him. In response to this, Big Smile wrote V a letter which he delivered to her prior to attacking, and his subsequent abduction, by the Quori in Skytower Shelter.

In Skytower Shelter, the party faced a Quori that granted powerful abilities to Arn Rockfist Akkanathi. Defeating the Quori would weaken Arn and allow Ilikan to win his fight. However, as the Quori was about to die, it teleported himself and Big Smile out of the room, where Big Smile is encompassed in a glass container in an unknown location.