![[JorikThornwickPathfinder-v1.png]] # Jorik Thornwick _Human Refugee | [[Elturel]]_ ## Summary A broad-shouldered sixteen-year-old among the [[Elturel]] refugees who dreamed of becoming a warrior like his father, the [[Hellriders|Hellrider]] [[Corwin Thornwick]]. [[Rick]] befriended him on the road. He was murdered — throat slit, the scene staged to look like a gnoll attack — because his name was on [[Tarquin Belmont]]'s kill-list as a descendant of the oath-bound. His death is what put the party onto the conspiracy. %% ## Now _Dead. His body lay two hundred yards from the refugee camp. His mother [[Mira Thornwick]] survives him; his father [[Corwin Thornwick]] was lost in [[Elturel]]'s fall._ ## Appearance Broad-shouldered and eager for sixteen, with the bearing of a boy trying to look like the soldier he wanted to become. ## Personality Earnest and admiring, drawn to warriors and warrior-talk. Latched onto [[Rick]] on the road. Wanted to matter, to be brave like his father. ## Connections **[[Corwin Thornwick]]** — father; a [[Hellriders|Hellrider]] lost when [[Elturel]] fell. **[[Mira Thornwick]]** — mother. **[[Rick]]** — befriended him on the road; grieves him and swore to find the truth. **[[Tarquin Belmont]]** — murdered him and bragged about it. ## Background **The List:** His name appeared on [[Tarquin Belmont]]'s stolen list beneath [[Docktor]] and [[Reya Mantlemorn]] — targets tied to the [[Hellriders]] and the [[Creed Resolute]]. **The Murder:** He was killed with a clean blade wound to the throat, then dressed with superficial claw marks and drag marks to blame the gnolls. The party saw through the staging immediately. Under interrogation, [[Tarquin Belmont]] described the killing in cruel detail to provoke [[Rick]]. %%