Editing DOCTOR (section)

==Background==

In the terrible world of Midnight, our diminutive friend Doctor is of rare stock.  Despite the gray dragging surroundings, he is the one that can be found whistling quietly to himself as if oddly carried by some deeper wisdom.  Or perhaps he is just a fool.  Whatever the case, it has been this intuition that he has chosen to be his guide.

He was born to his mother, Sona, and his father, John of the Tall Grass.  His parents were among halfling refugees who had escaped capture along the Kasmael Sea by moving into the Aruun Jungle.  John was nearly 201 years old at the time and was very pleased to finally have a son.  John had fought in the Wars and beamed happily at his apparently humongous son.  Humongous indeed.  By the time he was an adolescent he towered head and shoulders over everyone he knew.  How can a halfling be 3 feet 6 inches?  "Because I was promised!" John would shout boisterously.

Doctor's adventure began during a three day fishing trip with his friend Clyde.  They had ventured too far to the east and slavers took them in the night.  Loaded like caged sheep, they were taken deep into Sarcosan lands.  Heading to Alvedara, the journey was inexplicably long, starving much of the slaver's stock of halflings to death.  One night during a fierce thunderstorm the chart that Doctor was in was stuck by lightening, sending splinters of wood and halflings in all directions.  Doctor hid, laying among the dead.  The Sarcosan's piled the bodies and started the fire to cleanse the fell.  At the last moment, Doctor slipped away into the slums of Alvedara.

===Enemies===
* ''' Horndar '''<br>This orc tangled with Doctor two years ago while beating a halfling slave in an alley.  While he should have easily prevailed, the fight ended with Horndar with a dagger jammed in his head.  Trying with all his might, the halfling tried to retrieve his weapon but it was stuck fast.  In fact, no one seems to be able to remove it.  It is still there, like a constant toothache reminding Horndar that he was bested by a @#$! halfling.

* ''' Paul Ter '''<br>A Sarcosan who offered refuge but turned traitorous.  Shortly after Clyde and Doctor had escaped the slavers, Paul found the starving pair and took them in.  While the halflings were hiding from the light of day, Paul called the authorities.  Again a narrow escape, this time into the sewers.  Mysteriously, he has somehow followed Doctor west.

* ''' Stephene Sands '''<br>A small-time slave trader who works along the Eren River.  After being at the losing end of an altercation, Doctor and Clyde returned in the night and burned Stephene's house and barn to the ground.  Whilst screaming at his servants, Stephene looked up at a nearby hill just in time to see Doctor smile and blow him a kiss.

===Friends/Family===
* ''' John of the Tall Grass '''<br>Veteran of the old wars, John was once an adventurous soul.  He led his extended family and others they found along the way into the jungle to found Harvest.  It is said that he used to be one of the greatest natural channelers known.  But now his mind is fading and it is hard to tell fact from tall tales.  Fifty years ago, John came back from a hunting trip claiming that he had met a Satyr that was an ally in the wars.  The fey said he would have a son.

* ''' Clyde '''<br>Childhood friend, Clyde was with Doctor when they were kidnapped by slavers.  A hearty fighter, Clyde has pulled Doctor from the clutches of death many times.  Upon their discovery of the Underground, the two argued furiously.  Clyde refused to take the underground route home, so the parted ways.

===Contacts===
*''' Glip Toe hammer '''<br>Doctor came upon a pathetic goblin who had had the misfortune of being nailed to a table and thrown into the river.  In a moment of weakness, he freed the half-dead creature and warmed him by his fire.  The next morning Doctor realized he had been robbed and the goblin was gone.  Perhaps Glip will someday remember his kindness.

*''' Dirlon the Elk '''<br>A round gregarious giant of a man who likes his ale and loves his mead.  A regular at the Horse Bucket Inn, he seems to be a seedy drunk.  Though in truth, he is a trafficker of information.  Somehow he is able to see right through a liar without fail.  He never trades for goods or services.  Only secrets for secrets.

===Locations===
* ''' Harvest '''<br>Hidden away in the Aruun Jungle, is the halfling village of Harvest.  When Doctor was born, it had barely been founded by his father.  It it is hidden among a dense grove of boa-bil trees underneath a large group of hanging Danisil huts.  The Danisil and the Halflings enjoy a shared protection.

===Organizations===
* ''' The Sewer Coaches ''' Along some of the subterranean links between different points in Eredane, there are loosely knit groups working against the Shadow or just for profit.  The Sewer Coaches is a midsized guild of gondolas shipping product and people in the sewers of Alvedara.  Smuggling in this black market has proven very lucrative for Doctor in the past.