Quenton Bowstringer

Quenton Bowstringer (played by swoop) was short, even for a Halfling, standing at 2’ 8”. His hair was dark auburn and quite dishevelled. His eyes were green with dirt smudges on his face, arms, and hands. Dirt was almost always under his nails. He wore worn brown leathers with green highlights and common cotton clothes underneath, all of which appeared dirty. Despite his filthy appearance, he never smell bad per se, he actually smelled like the forest and fresh tilled soil. A backpack and quiver were always on his back and a hand axe and dagger hung from his belt along with a smattering of random pouches. He was very over excited about most everything, and loved to tell stories (or make them up on the go). He was very inquisitive and always wanted to know how things work. He was a happy go lucky type of guy, always getting into trouble.

He grew up helping on his family farm, just outside of a small village in the Quiet Fields. He was the thirteenth child in a large family, fifteen children all together, ten boys and 5 girls. He was the youngest until his twin sisters were born when he was 4. They got much more attention and he soon became a bit resentful. Much of his childhood was spent with his slightly older sister Cora, they travelled through the surrounding grasslands together, making all sorts of mischief and learning about nature.

His two oldest brothers left home when Quenton was 8, they were said to have been seen by their brother Maynard about three years ago in Cair Duin. Humans of the Empire were always making small supply raids on the farmlands of the Quiet Fields, stealing vegetables and what not. During a particularly harsh winter they raided Quenton's village when he was 11. Two of his older brothers, Milo and George, died defending against the Empire raid (ranger favored enemy, humans). When he turned twenty he decided to go out in search of his two oldest brothers rather than stay at the family farm and grow carrots all of his life.

Quenton arrived in Cair Duin late in the day during a torrential rain storm and after discreetly asking around town where he might find his brothers, he learned of a resistance meeting taking place that very evening. He went to the inn, said the password and was lead down to the basement where he found his oldest brother Sebastion. They chatted for a bit, but didn’t really have time to catch up. However apparently Sebastion and Garrett had an inkling Quenton might be looking to join them. Sebastion gave Quenton Garrett’s token of protection with the family farm’s logo of a bushel of carrots. Garrett was apparently out on a mission for the resistance and hadn’t been heard from in a while. Shortly into Nera’s speech the meeting was assaulted by Empire troops and in the chaos Quenton witnessed the death of his brother Sebastion at the hands of Prince Silkorin with the Scimitar of the Black Serpent. Quenton followed a few others out through a secret tunnel escaping the fight.

He and his new found companions were then assigned a mission to the Furbolg lands to request their help defending Cair Duin against the Empire. This mission ultimately failed. After returning to Cair Duin the party was given a choice to retrieve a missing Goliath in the frozen North, or search for his now past due missing brother Garrett’s party. They foolishly chose the former and headed North into the frozen wastes. Early in the search the party was waylaid by a severe winter storm and attacked by Yetis in the night. Quenton and the rest of the crew fought valiantly, however all were knocked out or killed and dragged off to the Yeti Cave. After a few hours Quenton managed to regain consciousness along with his remaining companions in the cave and managed to finish off one of the three remaining Yetis allowing Farrowbelyn, Paarthurnax and Anethri the chance to fight off the other two. Sadly Quenton did not live long after his brave sacrifice for the team.

Father: Jarald 98

Mother: Jillian 92

**List of Siblings**:

Sebastion: Oldest Male 36, Left when Quenton was 8, was said to have been seen in Cair Duin 3 years ago. Died in Cair Duin in the basement of the inn. Gave Quenton a Token from Garrett.

Gracie: Oldest Female 35, Married and living in neighboring farm, has small family of her own.

Garrett: male 34, Left with Sebastion, was said to have been seen with Sebastion in Cair Duin 3 years ago. Sebastion told me he has been on a mission for the resistance for the last 6 months.

Milo: male died at 26, defending village during Human Empire raid when Quenton was 11.

George: male died at 25, during same Empire raid as Milo.

Saraphin: Female 32, Priestess of Halfling God of agriculture in his home village.

Mychael: Male 31, still in home village working the farm.

Cale: Male Died at 8, of pneumonia before Quenton was born.

Maynard: Male 28, travelling bard, stops by the farm once a year or so.

Allstott: Male 27, Still at home, village blacksmith apprentice.

Harley: Male 25, still at home, helps run the family market to sell vegetables.

Cora: Female 21, Druid, close sibling to Quenton, still at the family farm.

Quenton: Male 20, see above.

Flora: Female 16, Twin of Fauna, still at home.

Fauna: Female 16, Twin of Flora, still at home.

**Interlude:**

Quenton easily starts the fire and lays down some wild carrots on a rock near the flames that he managed to find while the rest of the party continued to argue over some gold they found fighting the acidic fiend. After the rest of the group settles down and starts rolling out their bedrolls, Quenton hops up onto a log and tends to his carrots by poking them with a long switch.

Quenton starts talking to no one in particular. “MMmm, I sure love carrots, these wild ones ain’t gonna be quite as good as the ones back home. We grew the best orangest carrots you’ve ever seen! I’m sure of it! We once grew these funny purple carrots from seeds pops bought from these gnomes that were traveling by. They were the funniest looking carrots! No one in the market wanted to buy them ‘cept ‘ol Wilrick. He said he had ‘em once in a grand banquet hall when he was younger and was off visiting them silly elves. Oh I dun mean any offence by that, though. We had so many extra purple carrots, we was eating them fer days!”

He pulls the stick up and looks at it funny and tosses it over his shoulder. He slides off the log and reaches out and turns the carrots by hand.

“Sorry there aren’t enough of these to go around. I gave the rest to Flora and Fauna over there.” Pointing at the two horses.

“I named ‘em after my two little twin sisters cause they are also so darn spoiled. My favorite sister is Cora though, she’s only a year older ‘en me. We used to get in’ta all sorts of mischief out on the plains. She’s a druid now and even changes in’ta a cheetah! She didn’ wanna come fight the stupid Empire like me and some of my brothers. I guess Druids are all about keeping the grass growing straight and stuff. I like animals and plants and what not too, sure ya know? But I feel like the darn Empire needs a bit more whacking than she does.”

He carefully pokes the carrots with a dagger and uses it to sidle them onto a large flat piece of bark. He then sets the bark plate on the log and hops back up to sit. He pulls the bark onto his lap and begins eating them.

Speaking while eating, he says “mmmm, not bad!"