38 lines
1.4 KiB
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38 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
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type: npc
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campaign: The Hollow Between
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role: shrine keeper
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status: alive
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# Brother Hale
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> [!info] Quick Reference
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> **Role:** Keeper of the roadside shrine
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> **Location:** [[campaigns/the-hollow-between/locations/briarcross]]
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> **Public face:** Gentle, apologetic, scholarly in a small-town way
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## Appearance
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Thin, soft-voiced, and perpetually damp at the hem from the marsh paths. He keeps prayer ribbons tucked into his sleeves and smells faintly of lamp oil and rosemary.
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## Personality
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Hale listens longer than most people can stand. He is kind without being weak, and his caution often reads as indecision until the moment he finally chooses a side.
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## Goals & Motivations
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- Learn what the waking place truly is before anyone tries to destroy it
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- Preserve the oldest records and customs of the village
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- Keep the dead from becoming tools in the living's arguments
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## Connections
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- Shares uncomfortable fragments of old lore with [[campaigns/the-hollow-between/npcs/mara-thornfield]]
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- Respects [[campaigns/the-hollow-between/npcs/ysa-of-the-reeds]] more than he admits publicly
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- Believes [[campaigns/the-hollow-between/npcs/tam-rowan]] has been chosen for something
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## Secrets
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Hale found an older record suggesting the buried bell is not a warning, but an invitation to witness a judgment that was never completed. He has hidden this because he fears what the village would do with it.
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