Re-Recruiting for The Shield of the North [5E]

[TriciaOso]

IC Thread: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthre...f-the-North-IC
OOC Thread: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthre...-the-North-OOC
Original Recruitment Thread: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthre...ampaign-combat

The city of Coldwater is annually assaulted by necromantic raiders from Blackreach and their army of the dead. Coldwater, 'the Shield of the North,' is the first line of defense against this Wintertide invasion of the dead, which would otherwise spread across the continent of Solus.

-PCs will start as level 1 and work as a team in the city militia, guarding a specific objective or set of objectives during the annual invasion; fighting until their resources are exhausted
-A year passes between each combat scenario, with downtime mechanics to flesh out what happened
-Characters go up one level between each combat scenario.
-Game expected to (ideally) go from 1 - 10.
-Forum for narrative, DNDBeyond for character sheets, Discord for communication. Dice can be rolled on the forum, on DNDBeyond, or on Discord.
-Must be able to post daily!
-Homebrew world, kitchen-sinky, mostly human or demi-human characters in this continent. In addition to humans/elves/halflings, Goliaths and water genasi are especially common in this region, as are shadar-kai half-elves for those who have some connection to the noble family or Blackreach. The history of orcs, goblins, the Underdark and other elements are different in this setting.

The existing crew has just completed the first year, with one of our players going AWOL along the way. As they move through downtime, I'd like to recruit a fourth character to join them starting in Year 2, so it would be a 2nd level character. I'd like to be able to lock in a new character by 5/3.

The current party is a rogue, fighter and druid; the missing character is a bard.

The DNDBeyond Campaign is here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/campaigns/5321799