Noose

History
Its not a huge Secret where Ashley Harper alias Noose, comes from. He's crimed his way from Elvenport to Kingsbeach, and... been hanged in both. While of some infamy in Kingsbeach, the law there considers his punishment to have been carried out. The authorities in some Elvenport districts disagree that the sentence was completed and would be happy to finish the job.

He's been following Lady Paladin Molgrave since being spared from a jail cell in Elvenport on account of her testimony and the trust the authorities place in paladins to be truthful. At first he just sort of followed after her on his own. When the Paladin was ambushed at night by several highwaymen, Noose stepped in and convinced them to head elsewhere. Mostly by telling them she was his target and that he already had dibs. (But the Paladin doesn't need to know that.) She has since allowed him to hang around, and sometimes doesn't disagree when he claims to be her squire. Which is often, in public.

If asked, Noose claims he was in the luxury goods import and export, and customer service business before adventuring. Its even true, in a vague and illegal definition of those terms. And that he isn't a very good person.

The Adventure Begins
On the road with his close friend and personal mentor, Paladin Molgrave, Noose volunteered to help Eliora on her quest for basilisk eggs, mostly because he has difficulty saying refusing to help pretty young women. He was not nearly as pleased to see Aislinn join the adventure. His stealth in scouting ahead allowed the group to avoid encountering orcish lumberjacks, and while the Lady Paladin did get the basilisk to stone itself, Noose was quite hard at work putting it down in more conventional methods.

The larger hostile man who went after Eliora, whom he considers wonderfully brave but terminally reckless, met a very pointed end upon Noose's sword. Four times. Thankfully Paladin Ana was able to revive our new friend.

For a bit of entertainment during our rest, and to rile up Aislinn, Noose has started a lie, that he is the Molgrave of the party, and that they are later journeying to the capital city for some family event.