Francis Summerpike

Francis Summerpike was named simply. He was the last of 14 children. (There could be a joke made about rabbits here, but I digress) He was only given two names upon birth, his mother cliaming that they had given the others names and it seemed to limit them in their potential and that he should go out and collect names if that was what he wanted to do. As it was, he had the least amount of names in the groups he ran with as a young gnome, and due to the bullying, he and his sister Syn, decided to head out to see the world.

Well, okay. That is not the only reason. But it's a good frame for it.

The real reason was that Francis was always obsessed with accurately capturing and drawing the town he lived in, and was able to have an ability to see the landscape as if he were high above it looking down and once he got a feel for the land, his drawings could depict the strangest things. One day, him and two of his siblings--Syn and Ret--went to explore a blue area that was not water that he had depicted on a map. They arrived, and found a strange blue line in the air. Ret went and touched it and fell into it. He was never seen again. For a few years after, when talking to a mage passing through it was thought he may have come out of another this guy had seen on the other end of the valley, so they traveled with the mage but did not find Ret. Years passed, and eventually finding Ret was decided that it wouldn't happen, and thus Francis set a new goal to make updated maps with all these tears that he could locate on them. Though, only the cleverest of folks would be able to read the locations of these tears--he learned this was neccessary quickly, but we won't go into detail about that here.

He has spent a long while in the Dwendalian Empire lately, but returned to Marquet a few years ago on commission from Elder Ushru, and the Quorum of Jrusar to create updated maps of some of the lesser documented areas of great historical interest. He gets a stipend now and then, and his goal is to find a 5th group to go to the Hellcatch Valley and the southern Oderan Wildes to finish capturing all he can.