Pableo (Pabby) Escobar of Dungpit Village

Nydissian

Immigrated to Midlands after the Sack of Kadimos, to Dungpit Village.

Pabby was born a peasant, 7th in a family of 9. Unusually small as a child, Pabby was taunted and physically abused as a child both by his peers and his parents. It was a hard life and unpleasant life overdue for change.

The first major change was the Skorn invasion, the pillage of his district, and the Sack of Kadimos. Two of Pabby's brothers, aged 12 and 14 were drafted into defending the city and expended as fodder to protect greater troops in a pointless and unsuccessful military sally. 

With the fall of Kadimos, Pabby and his family fled northward along with other refugees. The family traded one of his sisters for food and supplies during the trek. She was never heard from again and the family suspects she was sold to the Skorn enemy as food for their ever-hungry armies. A second sister caught the pox and was left behind to die when she became unable to walk. Pabby can remember her cries even now, almost 70 years later. 

Eventually, Pabby's family crossed into more civilized territories and came to the village Kwai. With no way to buy into a guild or property to farm, they took to working the poor common lands sometimes set aside for the destitute. Mother, father, and children worked in the near-barren fields raising gug-root, the only plant that would grow. 70% of their harvest regularly went to lords and village elders but in years of drought, they took almost all that the rats left. 

After a few years, good luck was to strike 11-year-old Pabby. While scrubbing the floor along with his brother at a tavern in the village a few adventurers happened to enter. They had been successful in a raid and extermination of local boys turned bandit and were drinking to their success. A fight broke out and a spell was cast. It slightly injured an adventurer and set Pabby's brother aflame, killing him instantly. The other adventurers felt sorry for Pabby and threw him a gold piece in recompense. It was the most money Pabby had ever seen. The lesson was clear - adventure is where the gold is.

With the coin, Pabby's family was able to buy an apprenticeship for Pabby and his brother, Lilteo. Pabby was apprenticed to a tanner and with an apprenticeship had status enough to court a young woman. The summer was sweet and the couple was seen as a possible match but by the fall the young woman had become enamored of a blacksmith's apprentice and visited him secretly. When he got her with child Pabby was accused of being the father. The applied prestige of the blacksmith prevented anyone from believing that Pabby had never lain with her but the death of the woman and the child in childbirth ended the matter quietly.

Entering his third year of apprenticeship, the tannery where Pabby worked was robbed. An adventurous group of rogues wanted to know who was buying blue-dyed leather symbolic of a competing thieves guild. Pabby's master had nothing to do with the work but he was tortured to death in search of the information. Pabby lost his apprenticeship and was set out on the street. 

Pabby tried to return to his parents but they wanted nothing to do with a boy who couldn't yet support himself. Kicked out of his family home Pabby lived at the edge of the village surviving on odd jobs, insects, tree bark, and begging. After only a year adventurers again intervened in Pabby's life. 

A small group was successful at looting a nearby tomb and burial mound. Rich with treasure, they set up operations in the tavern to continue looting and look for more adventure. It is unclear if the populace of Kwai was driven away at first by the absurd requests from the adventurers, massive increases in prices thanks to their needs, or just the feeling of rising malevolence from the tomb but it is clear the tomb finished the job. A wave of horrific creatures swept into Kwai killing everyone in the village unable to flee including the rest of Pabby's family. The adventurers were trapped in the tavern where their screams were heard across the moors for weeks. Pabby never returned. 

Alone and in the wilds Pabby stumbled across a hidden house, the home of a young hedge witch who was to become important in Pabby's life. He took up with her, helping her with her herbs and learning a few “knacks" which Pabby never really thought of as magic. Eventually, they became intimate. That fall Pabby persuaded her to sell some of her herbs in the “big city" - actually a tiny village named “Dungpit." Over a few months, Pabby traded herbs for trinkets and tools. Alas, that simple trade was to result in disaster. 

After identifying a few of the herbal mixtures as “magic" a group of holy warriors set out to hunt down the witch responsible. They found her and her home while Pabby was away in Dungpit. She burned at the stake never giving up Pabby as an “accomplice" in her crimes. Her home was burned to the ground and when Pabby returned only a few books and a small metal shovel were left. Distraught he swore revenge.

For months Pabby searched out the warriors, their names, their behaviors, and their order. He carefully plotted their demise and had plans for taking them one by one. In the first plan, he executed the warrior who awoke from his bed to see Pabby in full arms and armor. Naked, the warrior beat Pabby almost to death, permanently scarring his arm and leg. The warrior then dragged Pabby in front of his lord, Viscount Charlus Plarquis, who made Pabby an example by sentencing him to 15 years of cleaning the lower levels and cesspits of Plarquis Keep. 

In the 13th year of his sentence, the lord who sentenced Pabby was overthrown by a group of adventurers. With no tolerance for the weakness of the previous lord the new lord adventurers changed the sentences of all criminals to “you get out when I say." After their death in a dungeon the Viscount they had installed kept to their policies and for 20 years and Pabby stayed in the pit. 

Eventually, Pabby escaped and fled to Dungpit. Few really even remembered he was a prisoner and the loss of the cesspit cleaner was not even cause for comment. Pabby didn't know it and remains in fear of being recaptured but no one really knows or cares that he is gone. 

At Dungpit, Pabby returned to farming and was moderately successful. Only one year later, the region was hit by a plague of locusts. Most of Dungpit's local population were driven out after being decimated by starvation. They left many empty farms, rotting huts, and broken useless tools. Pabby remained for a time, attempting to farm. He took up residence in an abandoned home, but the land was too damaged so he decided to leave the farming life behind and make a go as a professional adventurer, moving to Northgate to make his. fortune (adventuring pays more, he'd always been told). 

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Diety: Soliri the World Tree, Goddess of the Harvest (barely). Why do people believe in that crap? Really it's a joke. Neighbors got on my case if I didn't kowtow so whatever.

----- Pabby now travels with his durable mule Maggie and Wulf (pronounced "woof"), a scarred dog with a single ear and a missing eye. Those familiar with animals or fighting them will note that Wolf is happy and friendly and is absolutely ready to launch like a pudgy-fanged torpedo at anyone who would do Pabby harm. Wulf is likely a better fighter than Pabby.

Unfortunately, the original Maggie and Wulf succumbed to the deadly encounters of life as companions to an adventurer.