Description
Milo Puddlewick is a weathered halfling in his late thirties, his youthful features hardened by years of desert sun and combat. His once blond hair has faded to a sandy brown, kept short and practical. His blue eyes carry a haunted look, tempered by quiet resolve.
He wears the light, flowing garb of the desert folk, with leather armor designed for mobility in harsh conditions. A curved blade hangs at his hip, and he moves with the careful alertness of someone who has spent years watching the horizon for threats.
Background
Milo was born near Clover to Jory and Tilda Puddlewick, gentle, free-spirited folk. His father was a mushroom-dyer; his mother an herbal midwife and beekeeper. When Milo was eleven, his parents joined a gatherers' caravan into the Dragonspire Mountains to harvest rare moonmilk caps. Black-cloaked riders slaughtered the caravan. Milo survived only by hiding with his three-year-old sister in a narrow shale cleft.
He carried Momeline to Brandyburrow, where the siblings were taken into Kettlewort House under Matron Bess. Two years later, the riders found them again. They stabbed Momeline on a bridge as she walked home from school. Milo, arriving too late, found only blood on the stones. He believed his sister dead — until Session 40 - The Brother on the Sand, when she stepped out of the dunes alive.
Consumed by grief and driven by a need for answers, Milo fled east until he half-died in the deep desert and was picked up by a Sirocco Warden patrol. He woke at The Open Door under Mama Sherahn's charge; she sponsored his Lyceum entrance through House Anuvesh's seat, and he has served the city as a Warden ever since. He blames a necromantic cult for his family's destruction.
The Smuggling Network
Milo and Mama Sherahn run a quiet operation that brings "unworthies" into the city — people the city's diviners have refused entry. As a Sirocco Warden on the inner-edge patrols, Milo is often the one who finds desert-survivors first, and he takes the moment alone to decide whether they go to the Lyceum diviners or to Mama. He has done this for nearly twenty years.
Story
Milo and Momeline were reunited in Session 40 - The Brother on the Sand, where he cut down the sandwraith that had been hunting the party in the desert ruins and then smuggled them past the dome and into Khasim's Crown.
In Session 42 - The Diviner's Bluff, Momeline found him imprisoned in Shefir's Prison and slipped him out long enough to take a message from Mama: the party must learn what Tassir is planning in the Oasis Vault.
In Session 43 - The Empty Chest, the party regrouped with Milo in a waterfall cave on the city's outskirts after breaking Mama free of the forum.