Starsh Tinkatokk

Starsh's Standard Attire & Appearance

## Appearance

Starsh appears to be a human of unusually lanky stature, standing at 6'0" but only weighing 130lbs. Off-color blue eyes, similar to those a baby has prior to developing a proper eye color, complement a heavily desaturated yet natural purple for his messy hair. The only demonic traits notable to Starsh is a prehensile tail, similar to a rat or possum's tail, that he can have sprout and assist him at times. Furthermore, Starsh may take this a step further, and fully transform into what appears to be a slightly oversized possum at will...which he uses at times to gather materials or act unnoticed in public areas.

Starsh often wears his suit even in casual situations, a set of cloth and studded leather mixed with dirty, mithral-based mechanical enhancements on his limbs and head. This suit was devised by him to assist with his dexterity in smithing and combat situations, while also granting some resistance to the fires of the forge thanks to some cooling systems integrated into it. Beyond this, all equipment on his person seems to be for the most part technological rather than magic, sporting a heavily modified musket deemed the "Trash Cannon" oftentimes and slipping a subtle Mental Enhancement magic headband.

## History

Starsh was born to a Tiefling father and Human mother (Ortholo and Gloria Tinkatokk) in Almas, with genetics heavily favoring his mother to create his mostly mundane appearance. Starsh was in his early years acted relatively disillusioned but otherwise was a pleasant enough child according to those who knew him. He studied under his father for the most part, due to Ortholo being a relatively well-known smith in the city, and almost immediately Starsh began showing a notable affinity for crafting and working with metal...which was often the scraps from the projects his father was commissioned to make. This lead to Starsh becoming adept at working with re-used, battered, or otherwise less than optimal materials.

Starsh continued to apprentice under his father for quite some time before taking some time away to help his mother in the last few years of her life, as while Starsh possessed his mother's looks...he possessed his father's lifespan. After the passing of Gloria Starsh went back to work, now alongside his father rather than beneath him. However, this only lasted a short time before a corrupt auditor from the city condemned and barred his father's forge after Ortholo refused to capitulate to the auditor's attempts at extortion, driving Ortholo to take a job at the local mines...which eventually took his life in a cave collapse.

With all remaining family now dead at the ripe age of 60, Starsh decided to leave the place that took his father's life and begin a new name for the Tinkatokks in a new land: Absalom. Sneaking aboard a boat with his transformative abilities, taking as much scrap and projects he could smuggle with him, Starsh stowed away and made it to Absalom...a whole new future ahead of him.

## Personality

Starsh's personality is one of disillusionment and eccentricities, looking upon true magic not as a wonderment but simply another tool to use...and often-times one that is less fitting than the might of steel and mechanical might. To Starsh, nearly all that matters is the progression of one's work, either through studying the ways of manipulating technology and magic alike in order to create and forge more effectively...or simply creating works that can serve his fellow folk. To waste material is to waste potential, and to preserve the worth of every spec of material and labor one must always work to re-use or recycle rather than simply let the work of his fellow man rot.

Furthermore, Starsh has a *strong* distaste towards figures of authority and law. Even before the corrupt that controlled the law drove his father to his grave, Starsh had little respect nor belief in the power of the law or the sanctity of those who enforced it...yet after, what respect that may have remained was quickly eroded away into hate and vitriol. In Starsh's eyes, every man who holds himself to the law as if it would fix problems forgets the edge cases or those purposefully hurt by the imbalances in those laws; No law nor order in the world could remain unbroken or uncorrupted in the hands of man or the divine alike, so to instead t help one's fellow man rather than rely on the powers above is the responsibility of every just man and woman alike.

## Goals

* Create a form of construct capable of taking the place of dangerous, often deadly jobs (Mining, Smelting of Ore, General Unskilled Labor, etc.) so that what happened to his father would never happen to anyone else.
* Create an independent society from that of Absalom or most of Golarion, governed not through law and class but mutual community and self-preservation.
* Perfect his craft of Blacksmithing, and create a masterpiece to make the Tinkatokk lineage proud.