The story of Weasel from BrandyBrook. Among this community lived a baker by the name of Rhoda. She was well known for making the most flakey buttery bread in the whole region. Travelers would often make a point of visiting this village for the very purpose of buying one of her coveted loaves. Her husband was a carpenter and a handyman by the name of Robur. He spent his days repairing homes around town and raised the occasional barn. Since he was particularly overweight even for a halfling, there was a running joke around the locals that he married Rhoda for the bread. The couple had two sons, the younger was named Weasel and the older was named Euric. Weasel was a mischievous child, for him when he wanted something he would often steal or cheat to get it. The crime he was most savvy at was shoplifting, he would steal small daggers from the blacksmith, toys from the local toy maker, and even various pieces of fruits and vegetables from the local grocer. His notoriety around the community became so great that in order to continue stealing he had to use disguises to disarm the dagger like gaze of shopkeepers. His brother on the other hand was an upstanding citizen, he never lied or stole, and was a bit of an overachiever. As the brothers grew older their differences only grew more stark. Euric was taking a greater role in his mother's business, working with local traders to get the bread sold outside the village. He also was a part-time volunteer town guard. Weasel on the other hand was kicked out of his parents house when he was in his late teens and moved into a shack he built outside of town. It was during his time in this particular living sitiuation that Weasel discovered how much he enjoyed hunting. Before he was kicked out of the house he was able to steal his Robur’s hand crossbow which he had procured as a gift from a family member several years prior when there was a recent surge in wolf and coyote activity in the area. With the exception of Weasel's crime was a relatively rare thing in town so it was not often used for self defense, not to mention Robur couldn’t hit the broad side of a red dragon. Weasel seemed to really take to the device and became rather adept with it. During the following years Weasel switched from simple thievery to grifting. He ran a badger fighting ring using animals he would catch in the wilds. After that was shut down he moved on to forgeries. He sold fake magical scrolls to travelers that would stop in town that he promised carried fantastic power and fake maps that led to treasures that never existed. Most notably sold one of his fake treasure map and sold it to a couple of locals that he referred to as “ the rubes”. Unfortunately his grift to a dark turn when those halflings borrowed a local Loggers cart to haul back the treasure, and then disappeared for days.. They didn't return even after the town council sent a team of adventurers to find them. Unfortunately for Weasel an investigation into their disappearance which was led by Euric uncovered his deception in one of the halflings journals. The town council had Weasel arrested and gave him two choices, several years in jail or the option to venture out into the forest to retrieve the cart they took with them. Weasel saw the opportunity as a chance to finally get out of town and seek out even bigger scores. As soon as he ventured outside the limits of his town he immediately ignored his quest and began to travel directly to the city of Helena to seek out adventure and fortune.
