Garridan

Garridan is a fairly tall and stocky dragonborn, with scales that range from charcoal to dark red but lighten to a burnt orange around their face and undersides, and eyes that are a green-heavy hazel. They wear a lot of greens and sometimes browns, with the occasional blue or purple if they’re feeling fancy. A handful of druidic charms decorate various hornlets and piercings on their face and head. Counter to their monstrous outward appearance, Garridan is quite affable and empathetic, and is more than happy to get along and make friends with other loveable misfits- especially if they’re animals. Though officially Garridan gave up their gender along with their first body, they don’t really mind how they are referred to.
Garridan wasn’t always a dragonborn, their current body is the result of an accident, a reincarnate spell, a kind druidic mentor and parents wealthy enough to foot the bill. That second chance at life came at a price even more costly than gold- it gave Garridan’s parents something to hold over them.
Garridan was originally born an Aberdeenian, the treasured firstborn of a power couple from the noble House Xu. Hualing and Renshu Xu had a very clear path and expectations in mind for their child, namely a place among Abadar’s clergy- but it was a path that Garridan consistently strayed from, and expectations they consistently failed to meet. Things came to a head when Renshu and Hualing learned that Garridan had quietly abandoned the worship of Abadar. Rather than try to make amends, Garridan simply left the family home, and found a new family in the Clutch of the Dawntalon in the Iron Mountains. It was there in the Mountains where Garridan first found the message of Darach-Albith, the Elf Father, and where they were initiated into the Old Ways.
Garridan proved to be a talented student, their mentor Rin was quite impressed that such a promising druid was still able to come from the cold, capitalist hearts of the Aberdeenian nobility. One fateful night she pushed them just a bit too far though, and an incident involving a bear in a thunderstorm got Garridan killed outright. Rin had the ability to cast a reincarnate, but not the wealth, so with a heavy and desperate heart reached out to Hualing and Renshu.
In return for the second chance at life, Garridan’s parents expected them to return home and work off the gold and disgrace doing various bottomfeeder tasks for the House. Garridan tried it, for a while, before eventually smuggling themselves out of Aberdeen entirely. They changed their name, left their worldly possessions behind and headed to Skor to seek out an academic contact of Rin’s who would hopefully provide them bed and board for the low low price of being weirdly examined for a bit.