Profile: https://bywitandwhitby.rpginitiative.com...ile&uid=22

Personality: Stubborn, rigid in his views, judgmental, pessimistic, protective and kind to those he perceives as vulnerable

Main motivations and struggles: Ben has lost four children, two of them young adults (one drowned, the other hanged for murder). He feels guilty for having failed to save them. His main motivation now is to provide for his children, which is a challenge because of poor catches and his ailing health. One of his biggest fears is that he should die without being able to give his children economic security for the future. Another is losing another child.

Possible connections:

• Fellow fisherfolk
  
• Ben attends the local Methodist church and is very devout, so anyone who attends there might know him/wish they didn’t know him.
  
• If your character is poor, they might live on the same yard.
  
• Ben can often be seen standing about at the harbour, talking to fellow fishermen, smoking a pipe while taking a break, so he might be a bit of a familiar face to people in town. Your character and Ben may have made a chat in the past.
  
• Ben is keen to earn what little extra he can, so he might give your character a boat ride or ferry them across the harbour when the bridge is open for some coin. He also sometimes goes fishing or gathering wood in areas that are off limits/private, so he might get in trouble with the law/your character.
  
• We can probably work out something else/a more concrete relationship. I’d love to hear your suggestions.