Little Thom lives!

So I'm assuming Little Thom at Barradin Estate, The deserter quest, and the brawler henchmen are all the same character? If so how does that work? I found him dead in the deserter quest! I mean I guess they could have ressed him... but if you follow that logic they could res other key characters which die in the mountains :P

I've ressed them all. I keep them in my Evil Tower of Pain and Mountaineering. Little Thom got out, he was an excellent mountaineerist. Better than me and my minions. He was able to scamper down the mountain to the safety of the town below.

Oops I gave away too much.

If you follow the text the npc gives you after you complete the deserter quest, she says that is likely not the real Little Thom's corpse. The badge found on the corpse was lost by Thom gambling a few days before he disappeared.

Yeah I noticed that too, and the text by the NPC at the end of the quest also tells you that she hopes he's out there causing trouble blah blah blah.....the henchman is a Brawler. Brawlers cause problems. Her words make you think he's going to show up later on in the game. Perhaps the devs ran out of time and couldn't give him a more central role? He certainly does look different from the Little Thom from the Pre-Searing Barradin's estate character, but it IS 2 years later. Maybe in an expansion he'll pick up that role, but for now he's just a pawn.