Kiran Yddish

## Appearance

Kiran has several birthmarks on different parts of his body. He’s scrawny, but more physically fit than he looks. His hair is long, reaching to the bottom of his neck, in the style of a bowl cut. He has an ambiguous appearance and vocal androgyny, leading some to mistake him for a girl, to his annoyance, but sometimes, advantage.

## Backstory

When Kiran was born, his mother, a Rock Gnome, passed away shortly due to an accident. As a svirfneblin living in the Underground, Kiran was practically enslaved by his own people. Although he didn’t know it yet, this was due to the sverfneblins disliking him due to his rock heritage. His father faded into the background, pretending as if he didn’t know the… boy? Girl, right? Kiran had to quickly adapt to his hellish environment. A few years of brutal labor later, his cousins secretly bailed him out; a forest elf, Sak, and a rock elf, Andor. This was around 1 year after the Battle of the Fallen Stars in Ionis. With the years of toll eased, he slowly opened up to the world around him. He has little experience speaking with others openly, which scarred his semantics. He’s fast paced, and his words can’t keep up with his mind. Kiran’s cousins introduced them to their favorite Tiefling bard, Tia, who greatly pleased young Kiran with her performance. When Tia attempted to teach him at his request, his speaking habits made him sing quickly and out of place. She gave him a drum, to pace his speech. When the svirfneblin found out about Kiran’s wandering out of the Underground a few years later (around 3), they banished him from the underground, and blackmailed the cousins into forfeiting their assets, and were forced to work the remainder off as slaves. They smashed Kiran’s drum, sending him a message of what would happen should he return. Kiran, distraught, sought Tia for help. Gleaming, she agreed to help, under the condition he helps her. Naively accepting, She takes Kiran in, and reveals her plot to infiltrate a kingdom while she tutors Kiran as well, to which Kiran, not yet having a concept of right or wrong, agrees. As they raided the palace, Kiran continued to practice his speech and song until he successfully learned fluent gnomish. Tia provided him with another drum. He also developed a strong love for valuable-looking objects that glimmered brightly in his beaming gray eyes. One day, Kiran’s fast paced speech and quick wit surprised Tia with a style of music she had never heard before: Music that would become known as modern day hip hop. Using this confusing manner of music to his advantage, they were quickly able to advance with him masterfully luring away grunts and soldiers. After succeeding in the heist, Tia splits the pay, and takes her leave, thanking the strange gnome, and hoping they meet again. Kiran bails his cousins, and tells them everything that happened. However, this shocked Kiran’s cousins, and they abandoned him. Having nowhere to go, he continued to seek out valuable shiny things, becoming a kid bandit, trading them for necessities. On his carefree travels, he heard of a place of unknown treasures, trinkets, and food, residing on the islands of Koners. However, it’s said that the place is going through dangerous times there, and only the rich and foolish may set sail on the dangerous sea, the cost to sail being over double. Unfazed, Kiran traded most of his treasure to set sail on a rich man’s powerful and sturdy Sailing Ship, thinking that with the treasure and interesting trinkets found, he could make up for it and more. He set out, humming to the beat of his own tune. From joining different people, creating new personas, outsmarting the strong, and “singing,” rumors of the strange music player who played their enigmatic tunes before a heist caught on quickly.

### The Giant Toenail

*Short story of how Kiran got his Outlander Trophy. Don’t worry, Kiran washes it.*

Kiran, a gnome, dwarf, and a human heard of a giant hoarding medicine in the mountains. Once they reached it. It was sleeping. Everyone successfully gathered the medicine. The human, power crazy, decided to fight the giant. The others, caring about their lives, gathered the medicine and dashed out. The human sliced the giant’s toe. Curious of how much a giant body part would net him, Kiran grabbed the ball of blood and escaped, hearing the valiant cries of death from his short lived human companion. The strange buyer told Kiran that while the toe is valuable, the toenail isn’t. Kiran decided to keep it as a keepsake of the craziest thing he went up against, and made it into a visor he wears for good luck.