Hampton Fronsk, the halfling bard

Hampton Fronsk is a bard halfling from the small farming town of Soomhaness. His parents worked for a kind fat human man as farmhands, raising him and his two younger brothers Jomar and Kind (who was struck by lightening shortly after birth and now mostly walks circles in the fields) on a meager but consistent income.

Despite his natural abilities as a bard (which earned him an unpaid internship at the local bard college) he'd long fantasized about becoming an adventurer, reading the Fat Man's Fat Son's hand-me-down adventure magazines as well as the Fat Man's Skinny Wife's romance novels. This behavior was discouraged by his parents, who championed his musical talents since an early age.

One day late in late winter the Fat Man announced his plan to sell the farm the following autumn and Hampton's parents decided to take their severance package and move to the Island Isles, where a large colony of indentured halflings live as servants to a larger colony of humans. Seeing his opportunity, Hampton spent his savings on a some adventuring gear and set out on a quest to earn the money to give his family a shot at a free life, and fulfill his long smoldering lust for adventure, romance, and friendship.