Name: Roth Therik (the Minstrel)
Species: Otter
Gender: Male
Age:37 seasons
Occupation: Wandering warrior, and defender of the weak.
Appearance: He is a tall otter with grey/black fur. He shows evidence of having fought all of his life. He has an odd shine in his eye that gets brighter when readying for battle or telling his war stories, of which there are many. He wears a dark grey cloak that nearly matches his fur, and can blend into any patch of shadow or darkness that he can find and is near impossible to see with the casual eye when he is doing so. He carries a harp on his back and a sword at his side.
Personality: Roth is not a beast to mess with; if you do, your friends might wake up to find you missing one day. He is quiet and keeps to himself most of the time, unless he is with other beasts that he trusts fully including most of the Long Patrol, in that case he may even sing a song of two, accompanied by the harp he always carries. He never acts on impulse, and always has a plan, even though it may seem like there is none as he charges into the melee.
He has a mysterious and secretive air about him; he is able to make anybeast feel uncomfortable as he can stand still as a stone without blinking for hours on end.
Weapons knowledge: He mainly uses a broadsword, it belonged to his father, who had gotten it from Lord Brocktree at Salamandastron, it was the last weapon the ancient badger had ever forged. It is etched with the words "If peace works naught," on one side of the blade, and "the sword is brought" on the other. He also uses a longbow that he made seasons ago.
History: When Roth was in his teens; he was strong from helping his father work their farm, but he was inexperienced in the world. He was off getting firewood for his family when he heard a scream coming from the direction of his home. He ran back to find his father bleeding out, and his mother unconscious. When he reached his father, he was closed upon by a gang of vermin. His father, groaned and exhaled his last, which caused Roth to look down. He saw his father's sword; one of the vermin rushed at the young otter, who fell to the ground, lifted the point of the sword and drove it into the chest of the charging opponent. In minutes there were no living vermin left, yet he kept hacking and kicking and spitting. Then he saw his mother, her head was bleeding now, and it was beyond helping. she was soon dead. He rushed into the house and grabbed all the food he could carry, the scabbard for the sword, and the harp of his mother. He buried his parents that day and left the vermin for the crows.
A season or two later, he heard an old hare singing in the woods, the song began like...
"The minstrel boy to the war has gone,
and in the ranks of death you will find him.
His father's sword he has girded on,
and his wild harp slung behind him."
He asked the hare what the song was, and that it described him fairly well. The old hare smiled said something like "Badgers and written things and all that, wot!" Roth decided that the hare was mad, but from that day on he liked to think of himself as "The Minstrel".
He has been wandering Mossflower for seasons, stopping once or twice at the new abbey being built, and visiting the mountain of Salamandastron on multiple occasions, where he learned of his father's sword's make. Over time he grew more accustomed to fighting and being alone, and he often sings old marching songs and ballads.
One day he went to fight with the Long patrol, and during the battle, he saved the Brigadier General's life. He was given the right to call upon the use of the Long Patrol's forces if the need is great.
I hope I haven't left anything out.
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