Leeford Firpines

Leeford Firpines is a former member of the Adventurer's guild. He is a Wizard in the School of Conjuration.

Appearance
Leeford is of average height. He has brown hair with a white steak though it. He has six fingers on each of his hands. Leeford looks like an old man, but is actually very fit for a man of his age. Leeford also has the typical pointy ears of an elf, but when he returns to his own world, he actually looses them and appears completely human. He wear a brown trench coat, and a turtle brown turtle neck and some jeans. Leeford also carries a strange gun of his own design, a belt with several strange switched on it, a glove on his right hand, and several orbs. These are all the tools he uses to emulate magic.

Personality
Leeford loves the pursuit of knowledge and science. He is extremely intelligent. He will often take great risk's even at the expense of his personal safety. Leeford also very authoritative, being unafraid to take charge when the situation calls for it. Leeford is also paranoid and very distrustful. He often sees the negative things about himself and others rather then the positive. Never the less, as Leeford see the comradery within the Adventurer's Guild, he comes to trust them slowly but surely.

Early Life
Leeford was born to unknown parents in another reality apart from Abalis called Earth. Leeford was born with a twin brother named Alex. Not much is known of their childhood, but it is known that Leeford was bullied for his intelligence and the fact that he had six fingers on each of his hands. His brother Alex would stick up for him. The two were very close, and Alex gave Leeford the nickname of "Point Dexter."

When the two were getting ready to finish high school, Leeford had the opportunity to get into a very prestigious university. All he had to do was win an science fair. Leeford came up with a project that would have surely won the science fair. However, unbeknownst to him, Alex was worried that once Leeford won the science fair and left for college he would never want to see Alex again. This drove Alex to accidentally break Leeford's project the night before the judging. As a result, Leeford did not win the science fair. Leeford soon figured out what Alex had done, and Alex was kicked out of the family. Leeford would spend many years resenting his brother for what he had done, and refusing to interact with him.

Leeford was able to make into another less prestigious school, where he worked hard and was able to graduate with 5 doctorates and a grant to set up a lab. Leeford choose to set up shop in a town called Solemn Decent. Leeford had developed an interest in studying the strange an unexplained, and Solemn Decent seemed to be filled to the brim with unsolved mysteries. Leeford would spend many happy years there, studying the town and surrounding areas and always finding new puzzles to solve. Leeford recording all of his findings in a series of journals, each with a cut out of his hand print and a number on the front page.

Meeting Billy C. Ondrum
Leeford eventually hit a point where he could go no further in his research. However he soon found a cave near Solemn Decent that housed instructions on how to summon a being with answers. Leeford grew desperate to continue his research, so he preformed the ritual to summon the being. However, seemed to happen. Disappointed, Leeford went to bed. That night, as Leeford slept, he had a dream where he met a myserious Triangular like being named Billy C. Ondrum. Billy revealed that he had witnessed Leeford's research and was impressed by his intelligence. He wanted help him further his research. He offered to share his knowledge with Leeford. Leeford, not suspecting anything, gladly accepted Billy's help.

Billy began to share what he knew with Leeford, and he began instructing him on how to build a device that would give him answers. Leeford would share his mind with Billy to help expedite the process. Eventually, the device was finished. However, as Leeford spent more and more time sharing his mind with Billy, he began to experience visions of darkness and destruction that grew in frequency and intensity. As the machine was completed. Leeford confronted Billy about this. Billy then revealed that he was using Leeford to build a inter-dimensional portal, so that he could escape his own dimension and come to Leeford's universe.

Horrified at what he had done, Leeford shut down the portal before Billy could come through. He then began to hide his research. It was this time that Leeford became increasingly paranoid and distrustful. Soon, only one journal was left to hide. Leeford's first journal.

Leeford decided to contact his brother Alex. Leeford that a guy with a seedy reputation like him would know the perfect hiding spot. Alex showed up to Leeford's home, hoping to finally patch things up with his brother. However, Leeford had still not forgiven Alex for what he had down to Leeford all those years ago. Though two got into an argument and came to blows. During their struggle, the portal was accidentally activated, and Leeford fell into it.

Multiverse Travels and Coming to Teol
Leeford would then spend many years lost in the multiverse. Leeford once described himself as having "visited countless worlds, and fought terrible evils that your worst nightmares could not even begin to conceive of." It is unknown just where Leeford traveled. What is known is that he seemed to have no way of knowing when and where he would end up at. Leeford also built his gun at this time, and began building the technology that he used to emulate magic. He also created another journal, which he used to document his travels through the multiverse.

As Leeford traveled the multiverse, he began to live small fragments of his memories and personalities behind. Leeford was unaware that he was doing this, as they did not effect his overall intelligence. It did, however make it harder and harder to have a clear picture of his home in his mind, something Leeford attributed to his time away from their and his growing age.

Leeford eventually arrived in Teol by way of a small set of ruins known as the ruins of Dinsey. Leeford arrived though some kind of mysterious stone archway. The journey had left Leeford feeling disorinated, so he only remember part of his journey through the trials of the temple. Eventually though, he made his way out of the temple and into Teol. His wandering's also transformed his body to appear like that of an elf, and gave him elvish abilities.

Leeford would spend the next several months in Teolish wilderness studying the various ruins he found and learning the common language.

Joining the Adventurer's Guild
Leeford soon stumbled across the cabin of Saski in the middle of the woods. There he met Yo'rcath, Aius, and Jett, who were investigating a mysterious illness that Saski had fallen under. Leeford grew curios, and asked if he could help the group. As the group investigated Saski's cabin. The Fog of the lost set in. Leeford came under the effect of an illusion spell, and saw Billy taunting him all over the cabin. Leeford attacked these illusions, but was freed from the effects of the spell by Aius. The group then journey into the basement where the Fog of the Lost over came them and forced them to witness Saski's past, where a black dragon killed her mother but was in turn betrayed by his allies. As he lay dying, the Dragon bound his soul to saskl's egg so that it might one day resurrect itself.

Back in the present, the group met Saski's mother, who begged the group to save her daughter. Traveling back upstair's the group found the black dragon's shade which was absorbing saski's life force into himself. A fight broke out and the group destroyed the shade once and for all. This caused Saski to wake from her coma and recover from her sickness. Impressed by Leeford's intelligence and battle prowess, Leeford was asked by the others to join the guild. Leeford agree, seeing the guild as his best chance to understand this world and find his way back home.

The Harvest Festival at Point's Peak
Leeford's first mission would be to journey with a group of guildies to a haunted mansion. The mansion is inhabited by the ghost of a former medic an army. The ghost wanted to head into the afterlife, but seemed unable to do so. In order to communicate with guild, Leeford allowed the ghost to possess his body to talk to the. The group came to a room where they discovered that a window into the past had opened up. The ghost wished to go through the window and be reunited with his lover, whom he never expressed his true feelings to. Some of the group felt it was a bad idea, while others felt the ghost should get the chance to change his past. Leeford, for the sake of Science, jumped through the portal and arrived in the past. The rest of the group followed suite. Leeford came across a watch that would let one change the past. A small scuffle broke out, that ended with Leeford gaining control of the watch. The ghost begged him to let him save his lover. Leeford, instead told the ghost to right then and their tell his lover how he really felt. The ghost in shock turned to his lover, who could not hear him, and said that he loved him. Leeford then destroyed the watch which pulled everyone back to the present, and saw the timeline restored. The ghost, having finally found peace, passed on into the afterlife.

Leeford's next mission was to journey with the guild to Point's Peak for it's annual Harvest Festival. The guild had been receiving mysterious notes and warnings about going to Point's Peak for some time, Traveling to the festival, the group knew that something was off. The townsfolk were behaving very strangely. Leeford soon figured out that the food was infected with bits of the Black Pudding monster. This allowed quentis to slowly gain control of the townsfolks minds. Leeford then journeyed with the guild into the nearby woods, where they discovered that the a portal had opened up. While most of the group decided to enter the portal, Leeford stayed behind to study the portal. Leeford soon surmised that it was a portal to the shadowfell, and that the portal was rapidly collapsing and would soon close, leaving the guild members trapped. Fortunately, the other guild members managed to escape before this happened, though not before confronting Quentis.

Leeford would then spend the next few days studying the Black Pudding and try to come up with an antidote for it. Leeford succeeded in finding one. He discovered that Saltwater blessed by a cleric could rid someone of the Black Pudding infection. Leeford then led a group to the nearby saltwater lake to try and create large quantities of the antidote for distribution.

As the Point's Peak bonfire began to die and it seemed like Quentis was going to destroy them all, Leeford displayed his skills as a leader. The town mayor was having a breakdown as his son had recently been killed and he saw his whole village falling apart. Leeford slapped him in the face and told him that he needed to be a leader now, and grieve for his soon later. The mayor came to his senses, and began to rally the town. However, disaster soon struck, as Quentis arrived and opened a massive gate to the shadowfell. Draken was then transported with a group and forced to fight a monster lord. Before the battle could be finished, the group was returned back to bonfire, and watched in horror as quentis killed both Bovi Reb and the mayor of points peak. Half of the guild was sucked into the Shadowfell, and Leeford was left with the other guild members in the material realm.

The Shadowed March
As the guild was guided by the Point's Peak Ember back to Saltcrest, Leeford journeyed with the group in the material realm. The group came across an tower. Entering into the tower, they discovered that there was a way for members in the material realm to switch places with those in the material realm. Leeford and a group in the Shadowfell faced down a dragon that kept switching between the two planes, but were able to defeat it. The group then explored the dungeon arrived at the top level. They found some sort of undead monster trying preform some kind of ritual. The group was able to destroy him and stop the ritual. Boresh Viskampt Mortheim then appeared and took control of Fenli, causing her to attack Leeford. Leeford was able to avoid her until Aius knocked her out. The tower then collapesed and the group fled from it, with those in the shadowfell returning, and those in the material realm going back to the rest of the guild.

Leeford and the guild eventually encountered the town of Hangman's Hollow. It was here that the group encountered Rouge and Vixen for the first time. The town was concerned over some disappearances that were occurring at the time, as well as some increasingly rising attacks of monsters from the shadowfell. The group found out that some dopplegangers that worked for Quentis were planning on using the townsfolk for some kind of ritual that Quentis needed to complete in order to achieve godhood. The guild stopped the ritual but in the process, Fenli was killed by some Dhampyrs. This happened, in part because of Rouge and Vix's carelessness. This also cause Aius to destroy the Dhampyrs in a fit of rage. He also turned on Rouge and Vix and wanted to kill them as well, but Leeford and the other guild members were able to talk him down.

Shortly there after, Leeford was captured by the surviving doppleganger, who wanted to force Leeford to teach her magic. However, the guild arrived to save Leeford. They were able to rescue him and capture the dopple, who was revealed to be a child that was wearing a mask that turned her into a dopple. However, Aius in his rage nearly attacked the child. Leeford again was able to talk him down, though Leeford had begun to grow afraid of what AIus could do should he turn against the guild, having witnessed his power first hand.

Leeford began to research warforged, feeling that he needed to come up with some kind of counter measure should Aius go rouge and try to destroy the guild. Leeford approached Alligrax to relay his concern. Aligrax, in turn, researched Aius and discovered some of his past. Becoming afraid of what Aius could do, he agreed to Leeford's plan.

Leeford and Aligrax conspired with Feshy Deshy, who was working on building Aius a new and improved body, to place a safe guard within Aius. Aligrax and Leeford created a box that would at the touch of a button immobilize Aius. Feshy was afraid to do this, but was coerced by Aligrax to do the job. During the ritual to transfer Aius's soul to his new body, Feshy attempted to place the device in. However, Aius became aware of what was happening and rose from the table in his new body before Feshy could complete his task. Feshy then stated that he should not have tried to shackle Aius, which angred Aligrax. Aligrax used magic to throw feshy across the room then told Aius that he would force him to accept the safeguard. Aius became angry at Leeford for trying to force him into a chain, while Leeford berated Aius for not seeing the bigger picture and realizing what a threat he could be if he turned on the guild. The group almost came to blows, but were talked down by Deadeye. Aligrax then agreed that he should have talked this over with Aius rather then forcing him in to it, and agreed that the safeguard should not go into Aius's new body against his will.

Leeford became extremely angry at Aligrax and the rest of the guild, viewing it as yet another betrayal. Telling the group that they were all fools, he stormed away from the house they were using and off into the night. In his anger, he accidentally walked into the Fog of the Lost and had a vision of when he was younger and his brother saved him from some bullies. This caused Leeford more grief, as it reminded him of how far from home he was, and how much bad blood was between him and his family. As he wandered on he accidentally came to the camp of Draken Dorris, who was wandering Teol at this time. Leeford relayed his tale to Draken, who in turn told Leeford to trust in the guild, and let them be his friends and allies.

Return to Saltcrest
Leeford continued to work with the guild on trying to stop Quentis, though there were some strained relations now, especially between him and Aius and Alligrax. Never the less, for the sake of the world, they were willing to put aside their distrust to work together.

Leeford was part of the group that attempted to save a tiefling farm and some Firbolgs, one of which was Mike Stepps brother Carn. Leeford was able to identify the sickness the Firbolgs were going through as some kind of sickness of the mind. The group was able to save the Firbolgs, but they were unable to prevent quentis from completing the Ritual.

The group next came to Brokav and had to contend with another ritual. This time, the town was being controlled by the only surviving Boomburst, who had taken control of the town and was subjugating everyone under a cruel reign. The group was able to free the Boomburst, who as it turn out, was being controlled by some kind of magic hat, and was actually a sweet child who was only interested in being a better craftsman. This also stopped the ritual from completing itself, preventing a victory for Quentis.

The guild finally returned to Saltcrest after a long and difficult journey, where Quentis had summoned and merged with the fog god. Leeford took part in the defense of saltcrest from the massive army of Ghouls that quentis sent after them. In the end, Quentis was defeated, and Spirit's Return ended with the fog god being resealed away and Zott taking Quentis away to be tortured in the Shadowfell. The sun also finally shown on Teol once more.

Candlenights
As the guild rebuilt the saltcrest hall, Leeford began to get more and more depressed. Candlenight reminded him of Christmas, which made him very homesick. None the less, Leeford participated in the guild gift exchange and recused a puppy from the streets, which he gave to Hedwyn Blackwell as a Candlenight gift.

Leeford joined the group as they investigated Hangman's Hollow, where the bells had stopped ringing at the cathedral and people had disappeared. Discovering that a wraith had taken up residence in the cathedral and was attempting to absorb a town guards life force, the group was able to reactivate the church bells and destroy the wraith returning the guard back to the material plane. The Cathedral became lit with candles, and the bells again rang out.

As Leeford became more and more depressed on being unable to find a way back to Solemn Decent, Reese S. McCupson began to take notice and offered to help Leeford. Leeford intially refused, but Reese insisted and went with Leeford and the group to a Candlenights carnival to cheer him up. Reese then stated that Leeford had tried using science as a way to get home and failed, but told him that maybe magic would be able to help him, and left the group to find someone who could help Leeford.

Meanwhile, the group met a storm giant who had visons of the future. The storm giant told Leeford that he would never make it home unless he abandoned his technology. The group also discovered that the ring master of the circus was using magical contracts to force people who lost games of chance into serving her. The group was able to put an end to the ring master's plan. Reese, soon returned with a member of Master's of Mystery guild, a sorceress named Serrella, who told Leeford that she thinks she can help Leeford return home.

The Guild Games
Serralla revealed to Leeford that a gate spell could get Leeford back to his world, but only if Leeford had a clear picture of his home in his head. She revealed that Leeford had left peicses of his memory behind in each world he traveled too, but that if he opened a portal to those worlds, then he could recover the memories. She offered to craft him a spell that would due the job, but it would take some time and cost Leeford a lot of gold. Leeford stated that he would need time to think about it and come up with the gold, which Serrella agreed too.

Leeford was asked to compete in the opening round of the guild games against the masters of mysteries along with other guild member. Leeford joined the group, and helped them to solve the riddles of the statues. Leeford then helped the guild to put together the constructs that would help them in the final challenge. However, the guild never made it to the final challenge, as they knocked out the other masters of mysteries and won the round.

Leeford next joined in with the guild in participating in the exhibition match against the newly formed guild the Golden Griffins. Leeford took part in the food eating contest, but did very poorly. He then helped the guild too track down the three keys in the ruins arena which allowed them to open the door to the final challenge. The group entered a gladiator type arena which had a pit within it. In the bottom of the pit was a mechanical dragon who was guarding another key that would allow the group to exit the arena and win the challenge. Leeford helped to distract the mechanical dragon while another guild member was able to escape the arena and win the challenge.

A Place to Call Home
Leeford returned to Serrella, and offered to give her all his experince from his time and Teol as well as his technology in exchange for the modified gate spell. Serrela agreed and Leeford finally obtained the means by which he could return home. However this also left Leeford drained. Serrella advised Leeford to study the ritual beforehand, and to preform it in the place where he first came to Teol for maximum effect.

Leeford would spend the next two weeks locked in his room, only interacting with Reese. He would barely rest as he studied the scroll and made preparations to finally return home. Leeford then asked several members of the guild including Dopple Duncan, Mouse, Caen, Calmir, Christian Phaldrick, and Vixen to help him journey into the ruins of Dinsey, to try and reach the chamber where he first entered Teol. The group enter the ruins, and solve the temple's riddles to reach the deepest chamber where the Stone Arch was. Leeford then revealed his true purpose in bringing the group with him. He told them about the ritual and how he needed to group there to defend him should anything come through the portal and try to attack him.

Leeford then preformed the ritual and opened a portal into the multiverse. As the group got a look into the worlds Leeford had visited, pieces of memories that Leeford had left behind began to rush through and form into some kind of orb that floated over Leeford's head. However, something went horribly wrong, and Leeford collapsed as a dark mist rose out of him and consumed the orb. The mist then formed into a new being that looked like an evil version of Leeford. Evil Leeford revealed he was formed from a piece of Billy C. Ondrum that had been left behind in Leeford when the two had shared minds. Evil Leeford offered for the group to become his minions, but they refused. A fight broke out, and evil leeford was forced to flee.

Leeford soon regained consciousness and learned what had happened. Leeford then sank into despair, believing this was his last chance to return home. However, Mouse was able to cheer Leeford up by reminding him that the guild would stand by him and do whatever it takes to get Leeford back home. As Leeford seemed to be cheering up, the stone archway came to life, and opened up one final portal. Leeford recognized his home dimension on the other side of the portal. Saying one quick final goodbye to the Adventurers Guild, Leeford raced through it and disappeared. The portal then collapsed.

Leeford's final fate was unknown for some time, and has not been seen in Teol since he went through the portal, though Evil Leeford has continued to work in Teol from the shadows.

Leeford's Last Stand
Sometime after the fall of Pendregar the dimensional barriers began to weaken between the feywild and the material plane, due to events that happened during the Whitehorn Rebellion. A scientist Gnome named professor Melvin Radd created a portal that allowed for inter dimensional travel. Hiring Mouse, Gerbo, Caspian, and Destevi to go through the portal and see what was on the other side, the group ended up in Leeford's labratory. Glyph and Rouge soon joined them by accident, as portals had opened up in Teol allowing them to accidentally join the group. Exploring the lab, they soon ran in to Leeford himself, who explained what he had been up too since leaving Teol.

Leeford had traveled back to his world and, aided by his family was able to defeat Billy C. Ondrum. He then had about 5 years with his family which were some of the happiest times of his life. However, this was short lived, as Billy was only in hiding at the time. He returned and waged war on Leeford's world. Eventually, the world was ravaged, and in the ensuing battle, Leeford's family was killed. Leeford was the only survivor, because Billy found it amusing to let him live. Leeford had spent the last 5 years preparing to destroy Billy by using a Crystal taken from one of the trees at Crystvale in Teol to absorb energy from the multiverse using his own portal he built. The energy would allow him to disrupt Billy's own power, weakening him to the point he could be killed.

The group wanted to help Leeford, in part because some knew him, and in part because they needed to help Leeford to get home. Leeford, however, was reluctant to put the group in danger, as magic did not function in his world due to Billy's influence. However, he knew he needed to groups help and agreed to let them join him.

Traveling to Billy's pyramid, the group made their way through the trails. They were also joined by Maz, who also came in through another portal. In the first room, Leeford read a book and was sucked into the pages. The group had to find the page with Leeford's picture and read the passage aloud, which pulled him out of the book. In the next room, they found a graveyard, with a door on the other side. As the group went to cross the room, zombiefied members of Leeford's family came up from the grave and tried to attack him, but the group easily cut them down and moved on. The group next came to a room with a narrow bridge over an abyss. As they walked on the bridge, they realized that the bridge never ended. The group then began to see hallucinations of the thing that they most desired trying to get them to fall in too the abyss. However, the group soon discovered that it was all one big illusion, and that the abyss was just a ten foot drop into the room below which let them go through and into the final room.

Coming to Billy's throne room, it was revealed that he was hiding in Leeford's shadow and that Leeford had made a deal with Billy to help him win the war as long as his family were safe. Billy was then able to destroy the rest of the world, but in the process he killed Leeford's family. Leeford revealed that it was all true, but he also revealed that he was distracting Billy. Blowing up the gun that contained the Crystvale Crystal, Billy was weakened and the groups magic was restored. The group then fought and destroyed Billy, but in the process Leeford was mortally wounded.

Leeford denied any healing, saying he was ready to die and be with his family again. Saying one final farewell to the adventurer's guild, he died quoting Shakespear: "Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." Leeford was then buried alongside his family by the Adventurer's Guild. Rouge played a song in honor of him.

Trivia

 * Leeford was created and played by Joshua Warren, the same person who created and played Draken
 * Leeford was Josh's second character in the Glory Frontier.
 * He was filling in for Draken who was away on an journey at the time.
 * Leeford was inspired by the character Stanford Pines from the Disney animated series Gravity Falls
 * Leeford has a similar backstory to Stanford
 * Joshua originally wanted to play as Stanford Pines, but the DM Brendan would not allow this
 * Leeford was the first Wizard PC to join the guild
 * Leeford would very often make real world references in his sessions. This was allowed since he was from the "Real World"
 * Leeford was revealed to be a huge Harry Potter fan
 * The guild members believed that Leeford was a "Scientologist" and followed a religion called "Skyence"
 * Leeford found this to be amusing
 * Leeford would also often lecture the guild on real world science such as physics and engineering
 * Leeford's favorite food is Burritos
 * During Leeford's funeral, Rouge played the song "Africa" by toto.
 * Leeford had been in the first session Rouge was in, and she was in his last. Her and Vix played that song shortly after the three met. It was fitting that she played it when they said goodbye.