Laurel Ashen

Laurel Ashen is a Phoenix Soul Sorcerer who had taken up work at the Sleeping Guard in order to experience the excitement of adventuring. Originally thought to have graduated from the Raedwulf Academy, Laurel also works as a librarian at the Raedwulf Library. As of the quest, Feathers and Scales, Laurel lost his arm to a Sphere of Annihilation, resulting in him taking a leave from adventuring.

Appearance
Laurel is 3'2" Corgyn who dresses in arcane robes. He has green eyes and tricolor coat, but he is drawn with dots above his eyes that act like eyebrows. Emily has stated that "most of the character research for Laurel was looking for pictures of Corgis."

Outfit-wise, Laurel is a spin on the idea of a modern wizard, wearing a button up shirt, slacks, a cloak, and a large and floppy wizard hat.

As of Feathers and Scales, Laurel's left arm is completely gone, leaving him only with a stump near his shoulder.

Personality
Laurel is shown to be incredibly eager to learn. During downtimes, Laurel spends most of his time at the library, helping the party by finding relevant pieces of information. Because of his tendency to read, Laurel is a polyglot, currently speaking the most languages out of everyone in the party.

Although Laurel prefers to spend his time in the library, Laurel is still a sociable person. Laurel goes out of his way to speak to people that he knows when he sees them around the city. Although not considered charitable by Corgyn standards, Laurel is willing to help other people without promise of immediate reward (or without promise of reward ever). However, just like most Corgyns, Laurel is not afraid to rely on his incredibly adorable face to get what he wants.

However, Laurel is quick to make assumptions about people based on what he believes they will be like. This has been seen in several places before, such Laurel's initial mistrust of Vennet Moonbloom and Hellion, alongside his frustrations with Dr. Ettle's mercenary nature.

Background
Laurel is the son of Meredith and Owen Ashen. Meredith is some form of dignitary for the Corgistan government, while Owen is a caravan master.

As mentioned by Laurel before, he is an only child, which is an oddity in his culture. As such, Laurel was rather lonely as among Corgyn, one's siblings are usually their closest friends.

As explained by his mother before The Barber of Silverymoon, the reason that Laurel was an only child was that Owen and her struggled having children. However, during her travels, Meredith saw a Phoenix and shortly afterwards, Laurel was born.

Adventures with the Party
-Calls people not-people, gets reprimanded

-That one gif of Jake Gyllenhaal with the ferret but he also has a cat

-Almost fell off a cliff fighting a bird house

-Liberate some Kobolds

-Killed the first time

-Blew up a house filled with demons

-Slogged through hordes of undead

-Rat controlled some rats

-Makes plans to move into the Frat House

-Gets reprimanded by Michelle Obama for breaking into somebody's house but there is THREE OF THEM?!

-Had a prophecy dream

-LOST HIS ARM

-Laurel heads home to Corgistan

-Sending

Quotes

 * "Greetings... y'all" -Armet / "I've taken 3d6 psychic damaged and died" -Laurel
 * "It hasn't received the benefits of it's long rest" -The DM, talking about the Owlbear / "Oh good! It can't cast it's spells!" -Laurel
 * "Get turnt Dr. Ettle!" -Laurel
 * "I'm not going to go into a suicide pact because you taught me about the Spirit Naga Decimal System" -Keldin / "I THOUGHT WE WERE BROS" -Laurel, drunk
 * "Prostitution is bad!" -Laurel
 * "Look, I saw the squirrel drink it and he's fine!" -Sun / "You're not a squirrel!" -Laurel
 * "Defenestration is always an option, Keldin Grimwald" -Laurel
 * "Did we forget about the fish cult?! That's gonna lower the property value!" -Laurel
 * "Sir Laurel, I think its magical" -Sun / "Bullshit, Magic doesn't exist" -Laurel
 * "What are your Scooby snacks? Books?" -The DM / "Yes, or open flame. Your choice" -Laurel / "But do not mix them" -The DM
 * "Hey Armet" -Laurel / "Yeah?" -Armet / "Where's your grave?" -Laurel / "I describe the location" -Armet / "I'm gonna piss on it" -Laurel, before passing out

Trivia

 * Laurel's name seems to be tied to the Laurel Wreath, which in ancient culture symbolized martial victory.
 * Laurel was the first person to die, having been killed by a thug.
 * Laurel has the lowest strength stat of everyone else, with a 7.
 * As mentioned earlier, Laurel has the most spoken languages of anyone in the party, at 10.
 * As mentioned by the party, Laurel shares a strange amount of traits with Yang Xiao Long, a character from RWBY. All he needs is "A cat-person who he is so close to that people ship them" with several members noting Desert Sun Follower. It should be noted that Emily only watched the first two seasons of RWBY, so this is more an odd coincidence.