Bearpaw

Bearpaw was an immensely strong and affable ranger who lived in northwest Faerûn some years before the late 14 century DR.

History
Bearpaw was a sort of man who made friends and earned respect wherever he went. During his time patrolling the Cloakwood Forest, to everyone's surprise, Bearpaw befriended a strangely benevolent ogre. This friendship earned the ranger a massive enchanted composite longbow called the Strong Arm. The weapon could only be wielded by a person of great physical strength, but luckily, Bearpaw was very strong. When the ranger died, his sons were unable to draw the longbow's bowstring. The best one son was able to do was to draw it halfway. Unable to use it, Bearpaw's wife sold the Strong Arm to a merchant traveling south. In the, the weapon ended up in the capital of Amn, Athkatla..