-A hobbit from Barkland. The Brandybarks are considered quite odd by the majority of other Hobbits who live outside of Buckland and farther into The Shire because they are the most cautious and battle-ready, considering they dwelt nearer to the dangers of the Old Forest.

-His parents were killed many years ago by some unknown creature traveling through the Old Forest. He and his little sister, Brendalyn, have since lived with their aunt.

-His uncle kept Rori's father's business going for a few years until Rori was old enough to take over it himself. Though he felt proud to carry on his father's legacy, Rori's little adventurous heart couldn't help but feel limited by his business and grew tiresome of the mundane. He wanted more. Though he understood the importance of every job a Hobbit could have, he felt a nagging within his spirit for something greater. He desired to help others in a more meaningful way.

-As a young hobbit he would sneak away to the Old Forest with his crude handmade wooden sword and let his imagination grow, though he never dared wonder too far. Now he was much too busy and "grown up" for such uses of his mind. His relatives from farther into The Shire were the quickest to shoot down any of his talk about anything out of the usual. They would tell him tall tales about that crazy old Bilbo Baggins and how much trouble he got into and how unnatural it was for a Hobbit to think of such nonsense. His aunt and uncle in Buckland might have been a little more welcome to Rori's ambitions if it weren't for the death of his parents; now they always warned him to stay away from the Old Forest and any kind of "adventure" shenanigans. He was safe here, in Buckland, and so he might as well find contentment there like the rest of them. So he cast aside his imagination like a childhood toy, put on his big-boy britches and settled into his father's business and the simple life of a Hobbit.

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