Description: Kaz is short and skinny for a half orc. His canines jut up and out from his mouth. His skin is green, his eyes red, and his hair short and black. He dresses in clothes that are sturdy, clean, and easy to run in. He wears cloaks with deep hoods, and tends to keep them up in public, even if that’s uncomfortable.
History: An orc tribe raided a human settlement for women. They dragged the women off, forced themselves on the women, and then the raiders were killed by the rescue party the settlement sent. Several of these women were impregnated. A few children were born. All but one of those was killed.
Kaz was birthed by Aryss. Her husband, Jokki, told her he would kill the child in the morning. She begged for just one night; he acquiesced. He could not bear to even look at the child, so he left her for the night. She was gone by morning.
Aryss made her life a long journey away from the place she was born and raised. She spent her days seeking stability for her children, a safe place for them to grow up. Life was difficult, made worse by the idea that just abandoning Kaz would make her life better.
Kaz was smart. It soon dawned on him that he was the problem. When he was about eight, he left. He had a kids idea of what running away meant, took just a few days of food and water with him, no weapons, no real plan. He has a vague idea that there were orcs somewhere outside of the small village they were living in. A week later, hungry and thirsty, found an old abandoned tower. Desperate, he entered it looking for food or water. Inside, though, it was well stocked, warm, and inhabited. The owner of the tower was a kind hearted man, who knew that sending the child back into the forest was a death sentence.
He fed the kid, gradually pried the story out of him. Took him back to his mother. Made her an offer: He would take the kid as an apprentice. He needed the help, the kid needed to be away from the slings and arrows of other childern, and she needed to be be less encumbered if she was going to keep ahead of her ex husband and keep her kids safe. It worked out for everyone.
Kaz learned how to work. He swept, mopped, cooked, cleaned. He was taught to read and write, from that he was expected to learn on his own, and he was good at that. He learned history, engineering, and the theory and practice of magic. And languages, lots of languages.
Kaz grew up in that tower. When he was fifteen, his master opened a portal, stepped through, and was gone. Kaz waited a month, just in case. Then he left, and sought out his family. He found them in Sandpoint.
His orc blood influenced not just his looks but also his way of seeing the world. Social graces are confusing to him. Subtlety and tact are things he has heard of, but he doesn’t see the point. Deception is something to be used in the achievment of a goal, not as a way of making people feel better. As far as humor, he likes slapstick.
