Noboru (D&D)

Personality

A bit of a jolly coward. Noboru is a special sight to see. He likes money, playing his instrument but is afraid of conflict and especially fighting. He's dumb, like.. real dumb. No braincells bit of a himbo-bard.

History

Noboru’s father,Yuuta, is an instrument maker and was a pretty famous one at that. He crafted the finest instruments for bards and kings alike. All his instruments are handcrafted and shaped out of the finest cherrywood. His life changes though,when he met and eventually fell in love with Noboru’s mother Isa. Who was an oracle for a small secluded water genasi fishing town on the coast.
His father left his business, the busy city life and his wealth behind to live with her in this tranquil village. Where he set up a shop which started as an instrument business but quickly turned into more of a carpenter’s place. As there was always a boat that needed repairing, furniture that had to be made. Fishnets that had to be knotted or cut. The town was simply too small, for the instrument business.
Yuuta didn’t mind the shift in tasks though as he is madly in love with Isa and started to love this sheltered life. They eventually marry and have three kids together. Noboru is the youngest of the bunch. Life in the village is a peaceful one and their children help out in the shop as much as they can. At some point Noboru, who mainly takes care of cleaning the place and talking with the customers, not so much with the crafting (two left hands), discovers his father’s old passion.Or a snippet of it. In the form of an unsold shamisen in the far end of the storage room. His father tells him that he can keep the instrument. And even encourage his son to try to ping some chords.
It didn’t stop at chords for Noboru. Every day, after closing time the young water genasi practiced. He was simply obsessed. Noboru played till his fingers bleed and then even some more. His biggest achievements for this time are the small performances he did in the local tavern. As cherry on top; the song he played to open the spring festival each year.
And so years pass quietly. That was, until an outsider stumbled on their village.


Kei's apprentice
Kei, A grizzled bearded human bard that traveled not only to make some coin, but also because he had some, troubles, with the law: stumbled on the village by accident. The villagers who were only familiar with a handful of outsiders, namely the ones they trade with, received him as a hero. As the last ‘strange’ outsider they saw was Yuuta, Noboru’s dad years ago.
Kei didn’t shy away from the attention. His performance in the local pub was an outstanding one. He got richly paid that night. Noboru was in that pub, that very evening, starry eyed. And when Kei made it clear that he wanted to leave the town the following day, Noboru asked him to take him along. Kei refused. And was gone the next day.
That however, didn’t stop Noboru. He chased after him with his shamisen bound to his back and a small portion of personal belongings in a sack next to it. He kept on pestering and asking the old man to take him as an apprentice until eventually Kei accepted. But Kei warned Noboru. Kei told him that one day he’d be gone. As if he disappeared. No trace. Gone. Kei had things to do, or so told his new found apprentice. Things that needed to be done, for the greater good.
Besides warning him for this unknown future, Kei started to train Noboru. He learned the younger water genasi how to play proper music, how to read notes and enchant it with magic. Not only that though, Kei learned Noboru the basics of archery and trapping. He taught Noboru how to sew his own clothes, how to set up camp and how to cook stew. Kei also learns Noboru about the more abstract things in life. He tells him about city life and how people function in these more crowded places. Noboru learns how to /read/ people and use his natural charisma in such a way that he gets what he wants from them. Or to get out of a fight. As Noboru isn’t a fighter.


It was a gloomy winter’s morning when Kei disappeared. Just like he told Noboru he would. No trace, nobody seemed to have seen nor known Kei. The small traces Noboru finds are always ending in a deadend. Now Noboru travels around for three reasons. One more surface leveled, the reason he keeps telling himself. Namely to earn coins for his parent’s shop. Playing his shamisen in a tavern earns more money than working in the shop would ever do. The other two are more vague. Noboru got a taste of the big bad outside world and decided he wanted more of it. He embraced all of it. The good, the bad and éven the ugly. He loves meeting new people, hearing different languages and eating strange food. Noboru loves to travel. The last reason is that he’s still searching for Kei. Even though Kei told him not to do so. As it’s dangerous to do.

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