Welcome to the second Wednesday Special and the first rendition of Drop-In NPCs. Within this I will provide backstory, descriptions, plot-hooks, and more for an NPC that I created. I hope you have fun with him and come back Friday for a table about items you find in bandit’s pocket. You could also check out Monday’s post. It was a statblock for a Bandit Lord, something that Terrance used to be (Check it out here: (Bandit Lord).
Introduction
The Tearing Terror is one of the most infamous Bandit Lords of the land. He would use his raw strength to tear body parts off of his victims. There was even a rumor that he once, in the middle of combat, tore a man in half with his bear-like strength. Now the Tearing Terror tears loads of bread for his village as the local baker.
Info
- Appearance:
- General: Terrance is a large man with the height and muscles of a bear. He has dark brown hair and even darker brown eyes. His body tanned from the fire of his bakery and scared from the blades of his past. Despite his monstrous appearance his smile seems to put others at ease.
- Cloths: Terrance wears a light gray shirt coupled with a dark pair of pants. He also wears an apron with burn marks and many stains that decorate the once white cloth.
- Personality: The once Bandit Lord is rather caring and gentle. While he still as an edge from his bandit days, most would not be able to think him a criminal, until they see him tear a tree apart with his bare hangs.
- Quirk: Terrance will destroy or give a thorough beating to anything or anyone that harms is daughter. He was once seen destroying a tree because a branch fell and hurt his daugther.
- History: Terrance was once a Bandit Lord that terrorized many a town until he had a change of heart. He then settled in the hometown of his beloved where he now raises his daughter.
- Childhood: Terrance was a street urchin of a small village and eventually was forced out. He was then picked up by a local gang that saw potential in his strength.
- Bandit Lord: As he grew up Terrance was able to beat his way to the top of his gang and many others.
- Fateful Encounter: While “guarding” the roads of his terrority, Terrance met the most beautiful woman, who he would later marry after many dates. After a year of marriage, she became pregnant with his child.
- Alice: While against his bandit ways, Alice couldn’t stop herself from falling in love and eventually marrying him. She tried to get him to quit being a bandit or at least be better than most other bandit group.
- Tragedy: Alice was captured by a rival gang and after tearing them all apart Terrance found the corpse of his beloved, but he also found his newly born child.
- Turn: After this Terrance quit his gang and went north to live out his life with his daughter in the hometown of his wife.
- Peaceful Life: He now lives as a baker for the town raising his daughter. The townspeople are caring but ask Terrance for favors that require his enormous strength.
Drop-In
Terrance can be dropped into any town as the resident baker. He could also be dropped in on a road leading to a town. In this scenario the players will find him talking to local bandits and criticizing them for their bad behavior.
Plot Hooks
Terrance does not very much care for the adventure that was once a part of his life and would rather ask adventurers for help with such things. Some possible adventures that Terrance could ask the players to go on are:
- Go help turn a local of the town away from the path of the bandit as he has recently been seen hanging out with a shady crowd
- Special Condition: Do not kill anyone
- Go find a special grain that Terrance wants to make a cake for his daughter’s 5th birthday
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