Finian Greenbootle

Finian is a Halfling Drunken Master Monk, played by Thariondrake.

Appearance
Finian Is a three foot tall martial arts machine, he usually is seen dawning his monk robes, sandals and beads. He keeps his hair perfectly groomed at all times.

Personality
Finian doesn't usually speak, though he is known by Ordwyn as a very sassy little fellow. Finian is also very impulsive and will do anything to make sure a task is done

Growing up
Finian was abandoned on the steps of the (insert name) Monastery in Bulfrad. Growing up in the confines of the monastery Finian was always seen as the runt of the litter, being the smallest of the group and was much weaker than the rest of the kids due to his small stature. He was beat up and shunned from the fellow children, his sensei would make him do extra manual tasks to try and strengthen Finian and make up for his short comings. Finian didn’t see this as the case, he felt he was always treated unjust. He retaliated by falling into the wrong crowd, there were some monks from the monastery that were known as undesirables.

they treated Finian's small stature as a gift and not hinderance. Finian > could easily get into places without being detected, mainly using crowd’s or people much taller than him as camouflage. He did small jobs for his new friends like get extra food or drink from the pantry without being seen. These small jobs help gained the reputation of Finian with his three new friends: Chimerus, Chen and Marcus. Marcus was the brains of the operation and usually had the ideas of what to pilfer. As Finian grew so did the tasks. Chimerus seemed to be not the brightest but was great back up for any situation that didn’t need a delicate touch. Chen was Finian's rival and they always seemed to be at odds, Marcus usually seemed to keep them both in check but the greed Chen had was always apparent. He would never be happy with anything less than what he was initially promised. This helped Finian know where he stood with the crew. However, he could never get a read on Marcus, it felt like he was always hiding something. They usually saw eye to eye and Marcus seemed to trust Finian with everything a bit more than the rest.

The crew would travel from monastery to monastery or any place of worship, they would build a repour with them and or scout out the place. They would rob the places blind almost as quickly as they came to know of their existence. They would build a repour with a local monk or simple person to use as a fall guy and build overwhelming “proof” that their patsy was guilty.

Terrawind
It was a job like every other job before that, the crew has spent most of their cash on frivolous things, accompanied by one of their new members Kadir a Tabaxi. For some reason today wasn’t like every other heist. The crew ran into many complications. Chimerus almost started a fight in the Hog Head Inn with Braven Cowardice the “Captain of the Guard”. When they went into the town the Tabaxi went missing, Chimerus was trying to rip off local merchants and Chen tried to pickpocket a random person on the street. Finian luckily tried to defuse these problems by making excuses for his partners in crime but this only worked so much. This started to ware on the guard's patience and burned their gracious hospitality.

Finian decided to get the team to meet up again in an alleyway behind a half burnt down abandoned building across from the church to figure out what everyone has learned and get on the same page. This is when he noticed the abandoned building wasn’t so abandoned after all, there was a light shining from the second window and he also herd movement. Finian decided to investigate it, he crept to the second floor getting to a doorway with a light shining behind it. He looked through the keyhole and he saw a someone also doing the same. This startled Finian and he fell back, the door opened and he was met with a gigantic blue figure. A Firbolg named Ordwyn, at first Finian thought this man would be perfect as a patsy after hearing Ordwyn speak about his life.

Finian acted to befriended Ordwyn and bought him a book to write down his thoughts. He brought him into the fold for the heist. Ordwyn started wanting to build a friendship and for some reason Finian entertained the idea more than he was supposed to. He took Ordwyn alone to the church to do the job while the others secured their escape. Ordwyn impressed and gained a lot of respect from Finian by the savagery he bestowed on guards that he once grew up with. They found the loot they were looking for, unfortunately it was too heavy for Ordwyn and Finian to carry alone. Against Finian's better judgement he went to get help from Chimerus and bring him to the church and leave Ordwyn alone at the church. When he came back with Chimerus, Ordwyn was still there waiting for them and was grateful that he wasn’t abandoned.

Chimerus and Ordwyn carried the chest out of the church through the front while Finian supplied security. They spotted a carriage headed towards the church and decided to take cover across the street in the abandoned home that Ordwyn was living in, many guards and a priestess got out of the carriage and proceeded to the church. At this time Finian knew a distraction needed to happen so he set the carriage ablaze with oil and hid in the nearby woods. An Explosion happened to the south around the same time as the carriage caught ablaze, this confused the guards and split them up. Finian proceeded south to get Chen as a re-enforcement for the extraction. They scaled the cliff side that backed onto the abandoned building and pulled security for Ordwyn and Chimerus so they could escape to the boat. Instead of heading down stream like what was planned they only crossed the river with the boat and took the money to the dirt path they initially arrived to Terrawind on. They broke down the bridge closest to them so it was harder for the guards to get to them and floated the boat downstream to put off their tracks.

Chen arrived shortly after, apparently, he was distracting the guards to aid in their escape. Chimerus let the crew know the boss had disappeared because this isn't how he wanted things to go down. They knew they still had to give a cut to the boss, but were at a dilemma, they now had a new party member who was asking for a small cut to get his life in order. Chen thought of this as a loose end and wanted to kill Ordwyn. Finian did not agree with this decision and was ready to put his life on the line to protect his new found friend. Finian put Chen in his place and said it would come out of his own pocket to compensate Ordwyn, with the disappearance of Kadir everyone’s profits grew. After this quarrel they headed to a small village named Wintergold to celebrate and divide their shares before they went to Bulfrad to pay Marcus. They knew not to cross him even if he abandoned them due to his connections.