Samworthy Sandlewood

Samworthy Sandlewood is a character featured in the Band of the Lion. A central NPC throughout the first four arcs, Sam is a beloved, intelligent, accountant, emotional friend, but he does get shy around women. That was until, in the Maiden Festival arc, Samworthy went out on his own and wooed a pixie called Spacegraham Skyverson, who was invited to join the band of the lion. Sam was killed in the ambush by Vyizm Wvimas on the Lion's Den, in which Cailin too, had died.

### Appearance

Samworthy Sandlewood is a tan skinned human, with dirty blonde hair, round glasses, and a slim figure.

### Between Lands

The party met Samworthy Sandlewood in Westwood Manor, where Samworthy had once lived and his family had ruled. Merut freed Samworthy from underneath some rubble, after which he tried to flirt with Fiorre, Veilyn, and Lucchi, before being left behind. He was found again in the aftermath of the battle of Westwood, and travelled with the surviving party. Though he was unaccustomed to hiking, he did not complain, and pushed himself on, earning more respect.

### Stadium

After being lead through the Whetgreen Goblin Tunnels, Samworthy was exhausted and rested while the other's did oddjobs. The next evening, after drinking with everyone and meeting Setep Mewtril, Samworthy opened up about his lost family, his fallen estate, and his shattered sense of selfworth. That night however, stadium arrived in Whetgreen, and Sam could not wake from the vapour that knocked everyone out. He was not seen again until Stadium as defeated and the party returned to Whetgreen to find him waiting. Veilyn, who too had not woken, had left a letter of farewell, refusing to wait thinking the party were dead, she promised wherever she went she would spread their story under the name that Sam had derived, the Band of the Lion.

### Maiden Festival

After arriving in Maiden Festival, Sam shared a room with Alcain in the Unwritten Fowl, here the two shared their stories of loss, and their feelings of responsibility to making amends. Later that evening Sam met Spacegraham Skyverson in The Trove nightclub. He spent the night with her and returned the next morning to a new job. Setep appointed Sam the numbers man of his new mercenary band and made Sam organise and manage the new dwarf recruits from the Forlonde Veteran Worker's Union. After organising the division and bringing Spacegraham along, Sam was informed about Alcain's passing in the night, he was grief stricken but stuck to working. He followed Merut to the Butcher's Shop in Forlonde, but waited outside with Elu as Merut vanished and Flea burned the Shop to the ground. After the four were able to reunite, they headed back Setep and left Forlonde behind them.

### The Advent

In the Advent, Sam took on the role of treasury and organised the Dwarves as the Lion's Den began to become a home. He was there with Setep and Elu when they first met the Claws of the Clowder in Clowder Minora. A few days later he and Flea confronted Merut and Cailin outside of the Away Inn for their distance, the four of them were the longest remaining members and had been quite close for a time, until they arrived in Rhondarshalar. The four made amends and ate sandwiches together before heading back to Lion's Den. There however, they were ambushed by the nycaloths Daerith Dog-Ears and Yin N'gith of Vyizm Wvimas. The Claws of the Clowder had paid a bounty of torment to force Setep to do their will, he refused and a fight broke out. After helplessly trying to attack Yin N'gith, and needing to be saved by Merut, the once cowardly Sam changed his act. Samworthy saw Merut being beaten down by Daerith Dog-Ears and rushed in to drag him away, but he was knocked back, and shortly after, killed outright with a crushing blow of his hammer. Merut visited the body after fight and couldn't bring himself to say anything, until addressing both Sam and the fallen Cailin, saying he loved them.