Bauble Needledroop

"[insert quote here]" - Bauble, being a nerd.

## Summary

**Bauble Needledroop** (he/him) is a timid (read: cowardly), hofflin wizard from a small religious village called Cinderton near Butterfly Gate on the Sarl Wine River.

## History

### Early Life

Bauble is the first born child of Candy and Nutmeg Needledroop. He has five younger siblings, (Tinsel, Chestnut, Cocoa, Figgy, and Frostbite) each born 2 years apart, with all of their birthdays falling during Dynakhan.

As the oldest of six siblings, he was often left to his own devices, and regularly found himself enraptured by the contents of Cinderton's small library. Fairytales, academic texts, firsthand accounts of historic events, Bauble absorbed himself into the pages of books, tomes, and scrolls throughout a tame and monotonous youth. Fucking nerd.

### Family Business

His family owns a Five Days Dark specialty shop that sells all things Cinderlast. From Thermium-powered string lights and hand-crafted Sibbaw figures, to specially bred, leafless trees to imitate the barren flora during Five Days Dark, his family's shop, Five Days Forever™ (not yet franchised), earns enough through the holiday season to keep his family comfortable.

Bauble, having lived and breathed Cinderlast from the moment he was born to his contentious departure from the village, hates the holiday as only a retail worker/mall Sibbaw could. Having had all manner of tourist children sit on his lap (often with great difficulty as Bauble's lap is rather cramped) with their gross sticky fingers and annoying gift requests, Bauble prefers to avoid interacting with kids at all costs. This includes his youngest siblings, much to chagrin of his Mother, Candy, and eldest sister, Tinsel, upon who the responsibility of looking after the family falls.

### Wizarding 101

Being as absorbed in academia as Bauble was, and with his innate drive to avoid his family responsibilities, he practically fell into learning magic. While Bauble possessed a decent natural talent for the craft, his wizarding education was accelerated when an eccentric Cinderton tourist took Bauble under his wing just as he was finishing up the usual schooling young Cindertonian Hofflins recieved.

This mysterious, ex-wizard human revealed exactly zero personal details throughout the three years Bauble spent as his ward. Bauble didn't mind the Human's secretive nature, as all he cared about were the hundreds of new and exotic texts he gave Bauble access to read and learn from. The Human would come and go from Cinderton, each time bringing tasks and jobs for Bauble to complete that made use of his rapidly improving magic. While Bauble never strayed too far from Cinderton to complete these quests, he garnered quite the name for himself throughout the surrounding towns and villages.

### Goodbye Cinderton

Bauble quickly became the person people would come to for small magical favours. Although youthful and awkward, the locals trusted him to do his job, and Bauble became quite self sufficient from the funds he earned. This was an issue for his parent's business, as without pocket money to hold over his head, they no longer had any leverage to bully him into long holiday shifts at Five Days Forever™.

After exactly three years to the day (Bauble counted), his nameless human mentor abruptly stopped visiting Cinderton. Upset at the loss of a friend as much as he was upset at the lull in his magical training, Bauble decided to set out from Cinderton to expand his academic horizons, and perhaps find his missing tutor along the way. His departure from Cinderton had nothing at all to do with a petty argument he had with his parents about being the mall Sibbaw for the 5th year in a row. Nothing at all.

### Present Day

He is currently working as a career adventurer for Robert Dogwin.