Gideon of Charwood Glen

[Luke Porter]

Gideon of Charwood Glen.

Gideon is a well tanned man with mouse brown hair and over pronounced adams apple. He is plain with brown hair and brown eyes, he is often forgotten in crowds and blends in of none of his own accord. He wears hunting leathers and carries a sling and dagger, which is strange as he comes back from the words with a buck or a boar most of the time. He is a druid and he travels the Gamboge assisting the small communities throughout with problems they may be having. To a band of bandits know as The Lost Company (Nyrondal veterans of the Grayhawk Wars who did not want to return to their staid homes) he is known as Bloodfang, the dire wolf, these bandits were preying on a small family steading deep on the woods.
He also is occasionally sent on bizarre missions to collect a specific piece of information or a rare herb with little to no explanation of why by his mentor Aton Crowsbeak (named not only for his prodigious nose, but his affinity for traveling the wood in the form of a giant raven).
Gideon is the nephew of the butcher of Charwood Glen, and was at the great Druidmoot when the the missing girls were taken, but his uncle regaled him with the tale of heroism. These sounded like likely companions. There are mysteries afoot among the druids. At the Druidmoot Aton Crowsbeak went missing, being nearly impossible to track a druid who does not want to be found, Gideon is looking for him. All Gideon has is a final message:

I am sorry to be leaving you, Gid. The moot may have been invaded by dark forces, there is much evil stirring in the woods. Go home, protect your family, keep your head down. Hopefully you'll be safe from what’s coming, frankly I don’t know if I can stop it, because I only have an inkling of what it is. I do know this, our well vaunted neutrality in politics is a crock of boar shit. I will contact you soon.
Always your friend,
Aton

Mysteries and Goals for Gideon.
The Lost Company are plotting their revenge, but are they willing to ally with powerful evil to get it?
What has infected or intruded in the Druidmoot? Is Aton even trustworthy?
I would like the last name Bloodfang to catch on, if it can be done organically.
As the party grows in power, I would like Druid Politics to come into play for Gideon.

[Luke Porter]

What Gideon has been up to lately.
Gideon, the liberator of Corum Wood.
Gideon has been spending his time doing the following three things:
He has been building up the relationship between the outlying farmers and the druids. This has two functions, first it builds his reputation and standing in the Druidic community and it also provides an avenue for him to get information from some of the old timers in the area regarding follows of The Old One in the area, including Sister Selma who really ran the household of Motte Severin.
He is making contact with the local Druids and trying to figure out the hierarchy of them, both officially and socially. This is mainly to find what was so wrong with the druidmoot that cause his mentor, Aton Crowsbeak, to go into hiding.
Gideon is attempting to piece together the history in the area around the time of the invasion by the forces of Iuz, particularly from sources he sees as unimpeachable the plants and animals of the area. He is looking in particular to deal with a giant owl in the area who is very old and remembers much from that time. Unfortunately that owl has a reputation that goes from unpleasant to malicious.
To do this Gideon will use the spells Plant Growth, speak with animals, speak with plants, animal messenger and his considerable skill with woodcraft and nature