Yay! Now I get to badger people about character relationships!

Let's see... Agewise, it feels like it might be Ellis, Zaris, Rigby, Bancroft, but I'm honestly only certain about Ellis. >.> lol The other three all seem to be roughly in the young adult range. Or am I missing something?

[@Lord Wraith] Methinks Rigby is maybe only a season or two older than Bancroft, or maybe they're the same age... So I do imagine they might have played together when they were younger. So there could be a story or two there (I foresee them getting into trouble, yes, because Dibbuns). And if Bancroft visits regularly then it wouldn't have been that hard to maintain a sense of friendship, at the very least. Unless they started out disliking each other, lol, though they don't seem likely to. Rigby's probably bothered him with farming questions at some point and plied him with tasty food and maybe visited his farm? (so he could ask even more questions, obviously)

[@Fading Memory] Ellis is gonna be the grampa, isn't he? 
I'll hazard a guess that Rigby was sore curious about Ellis' hogtwanger as a Dibbun... And he may have tried to wheedle out a taste of some of his brews once he was older (or well, probably as a Dibbun, too, but, y'know, he didn't know what he was asking for then), and his adventures and maybe asked if he could help make one of the ales or something.

[@PrankFox] Given as these two are probably in close proximity to each other for varying amounts of time almost every day, they ought at least know each other a little. Heh. My first thought was that Rigby absolutely asked if he could try out slinging and somehow managed to break a window, because this just seems appropriate. I'm thinking Rigby probably started, as per usual, with questions and friendliness, but he may have had a few too many questions about things Zaris didn't want to talk about and only apologised for poking at sore points after Bancroft dealt with that vermin attack and he learned first hand how horrible it feels just to hear the news that people you know might be in danger... He would also definitely have asked for help with the gate a time or two. And practiced composing snippets of prose to describe various events so he could have the judgment of a captive audience as to how flowery or properly descriptive his word choices are because unless Zaris makes it clear he does not appreciate the company, Rigby is gonna be spending time very adamantly helping the otter fight the boredom of nothing happening at the gate. Yep.