Raf Ashdown

The Green Acorn's scout, a woodsman and archer who finds the trail and keeps the company out of ambush. He has tracked men and things through every forest in the south.

Ashdown is a forester's son who poached his lord's deer and fled to a company to escape the bench. The company kept him because he could track anything.

He uses a longbow, which his captain thinks old-fashioned until he sees it used. He has tracked a missing child through a feral wood, found a company lost in a carr, and shot a thing that walked on two legs and should not have.

In 4621 the Green Acorn is clearing a forest road for a county, and Ashdown is ahead of them every day, finding what the road crosses.

In person

35. Lean and quick, with a sharp brown face, short brown hair and keen green eyes. He wears a green hooded cloak over a brown leather jerkin, a longbow and quiver over his shoulder, and a long hunting knife.