Role

Chapter 5

There are two things that really drive who Mond is. Loyalty, and his limited
intellect. Mond's personality comes from an amalgamation and distillation
(then maybe taken to an extreme) of a number of my favorite
less-than-intelligent sidekick characters from literature. Among them being
chiefly Samwise gamgee, and I am sad to say it...Hagrid the giant
groundskeeper from harry potter.

He's basically a cheery sort, except when he thinks his friends aren't being
treated well. And he rarely thinks of his own physical well being until all
of his friends are safe.

He's always known that he is not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but he
also knows that he has a fairly accurate native affinity for character
judgement. He's not quite intelligent enough to know exactly how he does
it, but he rationalizes it to himself by convincing himself he has a really
great sense of smell, and that he can tell by the smell of someone if they
are trustworthy or not.

That isn't really how it works, and sometimes his nose and his native
character judgement will conflict....like meeting an anti-paladin who smells
great...or meeting a dirty-smelly dwarf paladin. In these situations, he
tends to get very confused. And he hates being confused. Confusion, and
being forced to ponder things that are beyond his ability to ponder, are
among the few of the things that can put him in an altogether ornery mood.