Hollibert Barrelbottom

RACE

Halfling

GENDER

Male

LIFE STAGE

Elder

BODY SIZE

Small

BUILD

Athletic

He is a monk, formerly the Master of Novices at the Smokewater Abbey. The Abbey did not train warriors; it was a place that young halflings spent a year to finish their schooling. It is a place of brewers and farmers. Among his duties, Hollibert trained new initiates in the Three Foot Way, the orders traditional martial art. One day an itinerant monk from a different order and a faraway abbey stopped to rest at Smokewater and observed one of Hollibert's lessons. The students clamoring for the visitor to demonstrate his own orders techniques. When he did so, he defeated Hollibert immediately, and it became apparent that that the techniques of the Three Foot Way were mere stage combat, ineffective against an opponent who wasn't willing to be thrown about to humor the instructor. Hollibert was humiliated, especially because he realized he had sent hundreds of atudents into the qorld unprepared to defend themselves. He left the Abbey on a quest to learn true techniques to rehabilitate his reputation.

GOAL & MOTIVE

Hollibert Barrelbottom seeks to master genuine martial arts and redeem the Smokewater Abbey’s reputation after discovering that the Three Foot Way was ineffective. Hollibert also hopes to ensure future initiates are truly prepared to defend themselves.

NEMESIS

The itinerant monk whose effortless victory exposed the Three Foot Way’s weakness. This monk is not evil and did not intend to humiliated Hollibert.