Norris of Mornsteading

Norris is a traveling priest of Elianor the Comforter.  He is a 40 year old Halfling – roughly equivalent to a 28 year old human – and has been wandering most of his adult life. He grew up in a farming family of Mornsteading, and was trained by the local priest. Most of his journeys have been to and from farming communities offering aid and healing where needed.

Norris has also been involved is a small number of battles, mostly skirmishes with bandits. An illness at a young age hampered his muscle development, so physically he is fairly weak. In spite of that, during your time as castaways on the open sea it has become clear that despite of his lack of strength his health is pretty robust – of all your shipmates he has weathered the lack of food and water and the oppressive sun the easiest.

Norris is about three feet tall with chestnut brown hair he keeps cut short. He has thick bushy sideburns that come down to his chin, but other than that he is clean shaven. He lacks the typical potbelly adult male halflings tend to develop and is instead quite lean though without any muscle tone. He goes about barefoot and the thick hair on the top of his feet is almost furry. He has something of a hatchet quality to his facial features, softened somewhat by his constant gentle smile which seems to be his default position.

He mostly kept to himself during the voyage although he was friendly enough when approached. After the shipwreck he freely opens us about his life, more than willing to share stories. His demeanor has remained calm and thoughtful throughout the whole ordeal, offering up magical healing when he can to extend everyone’s life and health – though his spell selection is limited by a lack of components.

He readily talks about his faith but is not an aggressive evangelist. At no point does he try to convert any of his boatmates or even ask them to pray, merely content with setting an example and helping where he can. As time passes it become clear that he doesn’t care for Ular or Blaine overmuch, but does his best to hide it out of courtesy and to keep the peace.

Norris was able to grab his book of prayers and rituals but nothing else before jumping ship.