Halfling Ranger - Sturian

[Medium Sized Model - 25mm Base]

[Presupported with LYS files in 32mm & 75mm Scale]

Once a member of the Mandril Vilor, Sturian quit the organisation to pursue bounty hunting on his own accord, without being bound by a banner. Whilst he has enjoyed the freedom, he lives even more scarcely than he did before. Currently, he hunts a whale of a contract: a wanted rebel leader who has apparently gone into hiding in the remote port town of Westlook. His only problem now is that two Inquisitors have arrived in town as well, searching for the same quarry. Sturian must race to find the rebel and claim their bounty, before the Inquisitors.

An unsung bounty hunter who holds a long list of bold, unverifiable claims. Claims like: he was one of those who was framed for King Hjolmir I’s murder, leading to the Liturium War; that he slew the Travelling Jack in the eaves of Baldur’s Reach Forest, sending the demon to the Abyss. That he was present during the siege of Fort Sternwick, sent there by the Mandril Vilor to eliminate Sternwick himself, braving the battle with his party to take Sternwick’s head before the Golden Griffins. It was this final contract that would see Sturian and his party disband, for the narrow brushes they had with death, and the chaos that unfolded that day. Along with the guilt that followed him with every passing word he overheard about the Liturium War, it became too much to bear.

Years later, he had spent through the gold he had saved over the years working for the Mandril Vilor, and fell to freelance bounty hunting instead, taking low-risk contracts against outlaws who were in far off reaches. The places no one else bothered to go, rather than dared to go. It was one of these contracts that led him to Westlook, where the bounty at first was only for 50 gold pieces, but weeks after his arrival, an Inquisitor followed. Then another. He would come to learn from eavesdropping that they sought the same quarry, as he suspected, but the man he was sent to capture for arson in the city of Veinril, was in fact a rebel leader, with a bounty on his head twenty times higher than what Sturian was seeking.

Now he must race to find his quarry, Garrick Selmey, before the Inquisitors. Unbeknownst to Sturian, Garrick is a powerful arcanist. Even more unknown to him is that Garrick has long disappeared into the depths of the town’s strange cult. Whilst the halfling has come to realise Westlook is not-quite-right, he has simply chalked it up to it being an isolated town five-hundred miles from nowhere, more than anything else. As his search for Selmey continues, he will come to realise that much darker truths lie beneath.