Theodore Fletcher

Theodore Fletcher is human fighter / bard.

Theodore spent his youth as an urchin in Neverwinter. His father, Erik, was killed in an Orc raid when Theodore was an infant, and his mother, Cassi, turned to the bottle (and worse), losing most of her sanity along with her grief. She spends most of her days either unconscious or well on the way and mostly keeps to herself in their broken down house near the Chasm in Neverwinter.

Having been cast out many times by his mother, Theodore himself has lived mainly in the streets, sleeping on rooftops and abandoned houses when he could, and while he was sometime forced to go days between proper meals, he learned to survive by stealing what he needed. Still, he leaves packages of food and meager trinkets for Cassi when he is able to check in on her.

One day Theodore stole from someone marked by another thief and ultimately ended up in debt to the Red Hand (a thieves’ guild in Neverwinter). In working off his debt to the guild, he proved himself to be a reliable pickpocket, and was taken in by them and taught the skills he needed to fight and survive in the streets.

His main supervisor in the guild was an older human fighter, Gren Durgog, who generally played the part of a "basher" for the guild when they needed a rough hand. He taught Theodore all he could about fighting, and found Theodore to be an indifferent swordsman, but an uncommonly good marksman. Working together Gren and Thoedore developed a bond, and Theodore views Gren almost like the father he never knew.

The thief whose mark he stole from in the first place is a young halfling named Barwan Trickfoot, and the animosity he showed to Theodore for that act never seemed to fade, even well after Theodore was fully inducted into the guild. No matter how Theodore has tried to make amends, Barwan has shown nothing but hostility, with occasional violent threats.

To make things worse, during a fouled heist of a noble's house, Theodore ended up preventing Barwan from killing a well-loved travelling bard, Wallace Joysword who discovered their presence in the house. The bard later tracked down Theodore to thank him, and told him that he could sense some untapped arcane potential in the young thief, offering to mentor him.

In the following years, Wallace and has spent as much time as he can teaching Theodore the ways of a bard, and trying to convince him that he could live a much more honest and fulfilling life as an adventurer and bard than he will ever be able to as a thief.

Goals

- wants to be free of his obligations to the red hand now that he can survive on his own, but he's not sure what he must do to part ways with the theives' guild without making an enemy of the entire organization.