Shurikens’s Comments (group member since May 29, 2018)

Shurikens’s comments from the Ranger's Apprentice group.

Name: John Clark
Country: Araluen
Age: 30 in Book 10, around 45-50 in Book 12
Gender: Male
Apprentice/job: Ranger
Skills: Expert in the Long Bow and sneaking, Unparalleled in the Double Knife Defense
Personallity: Rather vengeful, and not too trusting of others.
Looks: Rather short, several scars on his body, brownish grey hair with piercing green eyes.
Other: This boy was taken at a young age by a Skandian raiding party. In his life as a punching bag, he had learned that in order to not be beaten to the point of unconsciousness, he'd have to learn how to hide. He got really good at that. So good, in fact, that he was able to escape.

He stumbled into Araluen after stowing away on another ship, eventually finding himself in Norgate. Naturally, not even being an adult yet and just now discovering this place existed, he had nothing. So he stole. He got so good at it, in fact, that Norgate's Ranger, a different one from the 5th book's one, was called in to deal with the kid.
He was caught, of course, and spent a nice cold night in the dungeons while awaiting trial from the Baron. Not a fun place, I can tell you. When his trial came up, he basically told his whole life story there. Not much, of course, considering he hasn't had much of a life up to this point. The Baron, deciding to have mercy on the kid, let him off easy, only spending about a month more in said dungeon. Norgate's Ranger decided that he had too good of talents to go to waste, and trained him to be a Ranger as well.

In Will's 3rd year he took care of the assessment, and he was very pleased with the boy's progress. He was even able to empathize with his experience in Skandia, being in the same position for much of his life.

All of this changed when Will became a full-fledged Ranger.

It was fine... Up until he found out what Will had done with John Buttle.

That year, after the Gathering, while Will was on his way home to Redmont, an arrow just so happened to find itself right in front of Will. John gave him a warning, saying "If you ever do that again, you can be sure the tree isn't my target."

Will understood this warning very well, though he was curious as to how he found out. But John never ended up forgiving the guy, not until about 3 weeks after Will married Alyss. He simply felt the grudge was held long enough, and Will didn't seem to be doing that ever again. So he both forgave will for his actions with Buttle, and apologized for nearly shooting him. Will wasn't exactly happy to see the guy again, but it was water under the bridge at that point.