Puck

Puck was a gnome avenger of the Raven Queen who travelled with the adventuring party for the majority of the first chapter of The Dark Province.

Bio
Puck was a gnome born in a remote region of the Feywild. At a young age, his family farm was invaded by necromancers and his entire family was killed and harvested by the dark mages. He escaped, however, and ran away from the farm, eventually coming to Cendriane and moving in to Canopy in Lariau.

As he grew older, he found himself still bitter about what happened to his family. He made the pilgrimage across the Big Empty entirely by himself without succumbing to exhaustion. He then travelled to the Sepulcher, which at the time was a monastery devoted entirely to service of the Raven Queen. He then trained as an avenger and, hardened by his training and the deaths of his family, began to travel Lariau ensuring that the natural laws of life and death were not subverted.

His investigations would eventually lead him to House Nocturne, specifically their base at The Edge. He was discovered however, and the House Nocturne officials there decided to try to convert him into a servitor. Before he could succumb to this fate, however, Puck was saved by the adventuring party who happened to be investigating The Edge as well, at just the right time.

Realizing that they both had similar goals, Puck offered the party his blade and he vowed to do anything in his power to help them. Though he was often a very standoffish and taciturn character by nature, he was grateful to the party for everything they had done for him and respected them deeply. He continued to travel with the party until the Razing of Cendriane, in which Brosca was discovered to have turned traitor and begun serving House Nocturne. Enraged by this perverse conversion of his friend, Puck charged and attempted to slay Brosca, but was sadly run through by her enchanted blade Nocturna. He died from his injuries very soon after.

Legacy
Puck's deeds to protect Lariau from House Nocturne did not go unnoticed. The Coroleius Academy of Arcane Study named their second-year dormitory in his honour and a larger-than-life statue of the brave gnome was erected outside the Sepulcher.