Binger Background and Build

### Background

**What is the physical description of you character (height, weight, hair, eyes etc.)?** Binger has a shaved head and keeps his thick brown beard full and down past his throat. Four beard rings keep his beard looking professional and upon closer look they seem pretty basic (perhaps made of bone or ivory). Binger is tall for a human, roughly 6'3 and around 220 lbs. The towering figure strikes a good balance between strong and fast. He's built like a boxer with broad shoulders and thick powerful arms. His skin is a little lighter than the norm for this region and his Common accent indicates that oriental is his first language.
**What is your personal storyline goal for your character?** Nearly five years ago Binger's family was kidnapped by a group of witches that are known to travel through the world and perform human sacrifices. With his mind corrupted by enchantment, Binger led them to where they were in the field and happily handed them over. These witches, known only as the coven of deathly sorrows, use trickery and beguile to foil their victims minds. Binger would see them all dead. He arrived in Jabaar four years ago and if the Blue Men taught him anything it was that he was no match for the arcane. His short term goal is to train whenever the opportunity presents itself. The Blue Men had him seeing everyone as one of these witches and the destruction he wrought through the city streets still haunts him... as does the dead bodies with his wife or daughters face after he had killed them.
**In your own words describe the personality of your character:** He was always a good man, even before this all happened. However that goodness has grown a good deal rougher. He's haunted by so many things that he feels responsible for. Generally good natured otherwise and has become a pretty good functional drunk. He's someone that you want on your side in a fight. He's enjoyable to be around, seems to function in both high and low society fairly well and has a street reputation for being someone who's willing to join a fight... for the right price.
**How does your character deal with conflict and change?** Unfortunately he deals with it by drinking. Binger has gone through some of the worst experiences that can befall a man. He's a drowning man waiting to be saved. Were there more serious conflict or change it might be too much for the man to handle.
**Who else is important in your character's life?** He works as a bouncer at two different bars, a slightly upscale bar (*The Cloud Dragon*) where he generally stays sober (relative that is) and gets paid the most and a much lower end bar (*The Patch*) that pretty much lets him drink and not pay that much attention. The owner of the The Patch is probably the best friend to Binger - An elderly mountain rabbitfolk named Bigear that took him in the first night he was in town. His master for the last year is a proud mountain rabbitfolk named Stoner Blow that has taken most of the coin Binger earns to train him in the fighting style of his people. They also drink a lot together.
**How old is your character?** 33 years old
**Are your parents still alive?** Yes.
**Do you have any siblings?** Yes.
**Is your character married?** Widowed.
**Does your character have children?** A deceased daughter named Rhys.
**What social class is your character from?** Not having citizen documents puts him in middle class but he is known as someone with a particular set of skills.
**How did your character get started in their chosen class?** The Monastery is located on the dry side of the mountainous region that boarders the desert. A clan of several hundred people live here in solitude. Mountainous folk that live contemplative and simple lives, tending goats, brewing mead, and practicing their style of martial arts that venerate the chosen form and fighting style of the animals they emulate. Binger's father was a monk and his father before him for generations. Due to them rarely having to use their martial skills in battle, many of their maneuvers are defensive in nature and grappling is a common feature. Binger focused on the fighting style of the lion and was one of only a dozen that emulated a more offensive fighting style.
**Does your character have any significant personal items?** He was expelled from his home with enough food and water to travel for a week. His previous life was anti-materialistic and considered memories the only things one needed to carry.
**Is your character religious?** He currently worships a god of revenge the most.
**Is your character guided by a prophecy?** No.
**What is your character’s view on magic?** It's something that he must train to overcome to get what he wants. Every major test in his life has been against magic, and he has failed that test every time.
**Has your character ever served in the military?** No.
**Has your character ever had a profession?** Farmer, bouncer, mead brewer.
**How did your character meet his current adventuring companions?** Probably in a bar. The usual.
**Has your character ever crossed anyone?** Not in Jabaar. It is unfortunate but true that The Blue Men affect on reality caused Binger to attack and kill several people.
**Does your character have any enemies?** It's unlikely the witches know that Binger is hunting them. But perhaps they do...
**How important is the accumulation of wealth?** Binger doesn't care about wealth, although he does seem interested in the collection of Heroe's essence.
**If your character died tomorrow what would they be remembered for?** He is currently a nobody and a nothing.
**Additional info:** The specific act that got him kicked out of his community was a drunken rampage where he beat a fellow monk so badly that he had to be fed through a tube for a month to heal. The fact that Rowan had turned into a drunken derelect and was no longer working or helping the community was just icing on the cake. Their culture was one where shame kept order and it was too much for his father to bear. It was his decree that his son be stripped of name and is considered as dead as his wife and child to the monks of Tabat blau.
Binger isn't sure where he received his *healing belt* from. He was wearing it after The Blue Men departed. It has come in handy for the drunk on many occasions. It doesn't look like much - superficially it looks like a silk rope cut short to make a belt. But many of the fibers appear to be long thin fibers of platinum and gold intermixed inside each strand and the belt holds itself fast when wrapped around a waist. The command word is the oriental word for health.