Karax Stump-fist

**Karax Stump-fist** is a fighter, doesn't believe country music is a crime, and is a member of Cervus Cor.

## Description

### Appearance

Karax begam wearing inexpensive mud spattered brown forester boots, faded green hemp pants held up with a rope belt and slash pockets and a few miscellaneous pouches on it. He has a tan long sleeved v-neck hemp shirt with toggle buttons. He wears a sheep leather vest with a calves-wool body warmer interior with interior and exterior pockets. He wears a simple necklace with a bear tooth on it around his neck. He wears a brown snood cap; it looks slightly silly on him. All of his friends never commented on the fact he dressed exactly like Shrek.

His armor is second hand chain mail shirt that extends to his thighs made of pitted and old steel ringlets. There is a small crossbow hole in the left breast possibly from the last owners demise. His modest pack is brown leather and mottled tan canvas with a cinch top and a woolen bedroll beneath. He has mottled grey skin, moss-green colored eyes and dark brown hair beneath his slightly silly snood cap. He is large and broad shouldered 6'5 feet tall and 245 pounds.

He is missing his left hand.

After the adventure of the Ashari he began wearing clothes in their style after his were ruined. He wears a red and brown tunic, with simple leather boots and knee length brownish red pants. On top of that he wears a slightly smoking chainmail curiass that belonged to Hayrig the leader of Stiltberg. It displays hayrigs rang and insignia for the ancient army for which he fought. In open battle he sometimes wears a helmet, a winged black and steel creation that obscures his face and turns his eyes red. When walking he mostly though goes bareheaded or in the sun wears a long brimmed sun hat.

## Biography

### Background

The Stump-fists are a long line of hardy adventuring folk. Their line started with Ragnar the pious, a cleric of St. Cuthbert, who begat Ragnar Jr the famed amorous barbarian. Ragnar Jr begat Krotun the craven (An Ironic name) who had three daughters Gurthaz, Murfax and Klaren. Gurthaz the Chaste had seven daughters Monatok, Glistra, Vallgur, Kalfar, Chendra, Wulfdag, Brunkillda, Gorthak, and Chengar. Of those that lived to adulthood only Kalfar would have children. A brood of three; Tothak, Murtag and Welda. After three generations Welda produced a son.

Karax stump-fist is the half-orc son of Welda and Timothy LaFey, Welda insisted upon their marriage ceremony that name Stump-fist would carry on through the line and be passed to her swaddling infant son Karax. Welda by trade was an adventurer until she had met Timothy. In a whirlwind romance that quickly resulted in a pregnancy she had given up the traveling lifestyle to settle into the village of Idzud Uzin, in a a cottage on the outskirts of town. She had taken to cheesemaking in her retirement while Timothy would sell their wares in the village center. It paid less than bandit-slaying and princess saving but it was bloodless, it was honest and gave Welda time to raise her child.

Karax was raised by Welda to know the family business and she didn't mean cheesemaking. Her instruction to her young son in the art of martial steel was her primary concern. The first male scion of the Stump-fist clan in three generations had large boots to fill and Welda was dedicated to meeting her responsibility of raising a son who could fill those boots. In the evenings when the work was done, the clang of practice steel could be heard from the backyard as Welda instructed her only son in the art of battle amid the curd separators. She passed lessons from adventures past and legends of Stump-fist elders and their great deeds as they stirred the vats of whey together during the daytime. Karax spent many hours practicing the cut angles of the longsword and axe with a Whey stirring oar as his mother waxed the cheese wheels.

Karax being raised on the edge of the village, had access to the no-man's land at the edge of town and would spend time in laconic daydreams staring into vernal pools and sitting under the shade of the conifer trees. His temperament inherited from his mother made him quiet and introverted but he was not without company. Cerise Gideon from his youth became a companion. A fellow desperate soul trying to find some way to grow up and get out of their small rural town. They had small adventures as children do, stealing apples and pulling pranks. Cerise getting them into trouble and then Karax having to get their way out. Days turned to weeks, months into years and childhood had come to it’s end. Cerise had left two years ago to test their fortunes in the world and solitude engulfed Karax’s life.

Karax had grown to his full stature, Tall and broad, quite unlike his slim and petite father. His love for the out of doors had bloomed into a small business of selling firewood and furs from the outlying forest to the villagers. Karax knew that there was no way to make a living, and he felt the calling to follow the family business of adventure if he only had an opportunity and then He could escape from his backwater life. Karax felt the gnawing of desperation upon his heart, if only there was some chance to come his way.

## Character Information

### Notable Items

- A bag of five treant seeds

- A dagger from the bereaved Sinodar that Karax took to kill Maliwan with.

## Quotations

* **Karax**: Kill it with fire!
* **Karax**: Grab a weapon and steal anything that ain't nailed down, we're getting outta here!
* **Karax**: ...I have had a fucked up enough weekend to fight a god so don't tempt me into a good time!
* **Karax**: I've seen a blind guy bite a police horse.
* **Karax**: A puppy committed suicide after he saw our bathroom.
* **Karax**: I once bit into a burrito and there was a child's shoe in it.
* **Karax**: I've seen a hooker eat a tire.
* **Karax**: A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a Wendy's.
* **Karax**: The sewer people stole my skateboard.
* **Karax**: The projects I lived in was named after Zachary Taylor, generally considered to be one of the worst presidents of all time.
* **Karax**: I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo, they were very drunk.