Boon is a lean male elf with angular features, pale olive skin, and long ash-brown hair usually tied behind his neck with a strip of faded red cloth. His green-gray eyes constantly track exits, hands, and unattended purses. A thin scar crosses his left palm from the poisoned cup he used to kill his former captor. He dresses in weathered dark leather, soft boots, and a patched traveler’s cloak lined with hidden pockets.

Boon is observant, irreverent, and intensely practical. He makes jokes when danger is closest, distrusts grand speeches, and prefers people who admit what they want. Beneath his guarded behavior is a stubborn compassion for the powerless, especially those who have been imprisoned, exploited, or discarded. He wants companionship but tests it constantly, watching to see who stays when there is no reward.

Boon Hillguard was six years old when a bandit gang took him from the edge of an elven settlement. The gang leader, a cruel man called Rusk One-Eye, kept Boon alive because a small, silent elf was useful. For eight years, Boon carried messages, cleaned weapons, watched roads, and learned which guards could be bribed and which doors had weak hinges. He was beaten for mistakes, praised only when useful, and taught that survival belonged to the person who noticed danger first. At fourteen, Boon finally turned the gang’s habits against them. During a feast celebrating a successful raid, he stole a vial of poison from the gang’s supplies and slipped it into Rusk’s cup. When Rusk collapsed, Boon took the keys, freed two other prisoners, and vanished into the night. He survived afterward by drifting between cities, pickpocketing when hungry and taking small jobs from adventurers, merchants, and villagers. He learned to scout ruins, read people, and disappear before trouble found him. Now, at twenty-five, Boon has decided that surviving from one purse to the next is no longer enough. He has become a full-time adventurer, seeking coin, freedom, and perhaps the chance to make certain no child is ever treated as a bandit’s tool again.