Banjo Kashmoor

*"Well no shame in making your acquaintance twice"* - Banjo to Harmony

*"I feel gross. This feels gross."* - Banjo after creating a tasty looking human to distract vampires

**Banjo Kashmoor** is a Player Character in Tales of Vitore and Flavored Enemy: Legacies. Banjo is played by Retro Architect.

Banjo made his debut in the Flavored Enemy: Legacies Episode The House of Skerzah Pt. 1 and was prominently featured in Dance Monster Dance. He joins Tales of Vitore on Team Andromeda in Episode 19, and later joins the Lieutenant Hunters.

## Introduction

*Pleasure to make your acquaintance. The name's Banjo Kashmoor. I'm a light-foot Halfling, College of Lore Bard, haling from the city of Meurach in Bàs Rìgh. Now that unsavory place is where I found not only my love of music but also learned to be rather... well... Quick of foot and wit.*

*Now a few years ago, me and my band saved the plane of sound from the Herald of Harmonics. And uh, well, I spent quite a few years living in there outside of time. But the greatest part of that time was when I met the love of my life. While we're on the subject... I have a little, uh, song in my heart.*

## Description

### Appearance

Banjo is a 3' 5" tall lightfoot halfling with sepia skin and hazel eyes. His pointed ears stick out from his messy dark neck-length hair. He takes care to make sure his bushy eyebrows and facial hair are well groomed, with styled in either a goatee with a moustache or chin-strap beard depending on the day. Unlike most halflings, Banjo takes care to wax his feet and prefers to keep shoes or socks on at most times. Other interesting features of Banjo's include a cleft palate scar on his upper right lip and a scar on his left cheek.

His attire is varied but maintains a consistent coloration, maroon red with gold trim. Banjo enjoys flowing robes or overcoats, with cream or beige pants to match. Following the events of Dance Monster Dance, he is never seen without his favorite instrument, the Banjo of Fire, a firey looking magical instrument that is now outfitted with a purple shard.

### Personality

Banjo is a relaxed, amiable, and snarky bard. While he may start off polite and passive with most, he forms connections fast and becomes highly protective of those he cares for (a symptom of his experience with loss of loved ones in Bas Righ). He tends to play a fun uncle, trying to offer guidance but also enabling those around him, usually trusting others to make the best decisions with their own lives.

He has frequently shown his capacity for skillful charisma and fliration, courting his would-be partner Harmony in one of his earliest appearances in the series. However, following his settling down, Banjo has shown an equal capacity for obliviousness and social anxiety. The humble bard has lost his cool on numerous occasions, whether it be his silver tongue melting away or outbursts of confusion and anger.

The most uncommon side of Banjo to see is the vengeful, damaged victim of the atrocities of Bas Righ. Banjo has shifted his care-free and compassionate attitude in a few significant instances, all involving his former home. Glisse and Banjo enabled each other to commit violence against enthralled Bas Righ soldiers during Glisse's Four Years Episode. The most noteworthy moment followed the defeat of Marcus Deamhan, where Banjo nearly killed the immortal tyrant with a fireball despite being the only one who could heal his good friend, Quincey. Banjo justified these moments to himself at the time as acting in the interest of the 'greater good', though in truth they were more a means of closure and catharsis for the damaged halfling bard. Ultimately though, Banjo in these moments prioritized the true greater good, protecting those which he loved rather than destroying that which he hated.

## Trivia

* Banjo was originally created for a Curse of Strahd campaign run by Ty's brother. His original backstory included multiversal travel from that universe to Vitore, which was later retconned to having grown up in Bas Righ when he was introduced in Tales of Vitore.
	+ He makes references to being from another world in his Legacy appearances prior to joining the main campaign. This includes knowing what Tieflings are in the unaired episode Date Night in Douglas.
* Banjo's character level changes between his appearance in Dance Monster Dance and his debut in Tales of Vitore, moving from Level 8 to Level 4. This was done to ensure Banjo was at the same level as the rest of the party.
	+ He loses his ability to use Polymorph and Fireball because of this, both of which were notably used to defeat the Herald of Harmonics. He does however regain these spells in later episodes.