Dankemus

Dankemus is a Tiefling Trickery Cleric of the hermit background.

Background
Dankemus is a tiefling, or the descendant of a fiend and a human. He was born, like most tiefling, in the Scarred Wastes on the southernmost ends of continental Otumat. The Scarred Wastes is a strange land with more than its share of peril; the only truly civilized places are ran by the Merchant-King of Oasis. Far from the cultural reach of Otumat, society is rigid and cruel.

Dankemus's birth was strange, having been born to a human mother and father. His birth was taken by the local authorities to be a bad omen, and his mother and father were both branded the mark of the Underworld and nearly forced to leave Oasis. Were it not for the intercession of a bard by the name of Gaunter, Dankemus's family would have been doomed.

Dankemus came to age in a relatively squalid lifestyle. His parents, thoroughly good people, were prevented from a normal role in society because of their child. Dankemus's mother, formerly a priestess of Ayuruk in Capital before leaving for Oasis with his father, adored him despite his deformities and strove always to impress virtue to him.

But Dankemus's father, a sailor by trade, resented him. When Dankemus's mother was found to have suffered a sickness to reduced her to a vegetative state, Dankemus was accused of poison. His father, in his misguided angry and grief, gave Dankemus up to the authorities, who would have killed him. Once again, Gaunter intervened on Dankemus's behalf... but this time, he could not save his place in Oasis. Both Gaunter and Dankemus were sent on a method of execution called the Walk of Bones, essentially having been locked out of Oasis and left to the vast desert. It was in this vast desert that Dankemus experienced a trance-induced vision that would change his life forever.

By trial and tribulation, Dankemus and Gaunter made it out of the deserts to the port city of Torc'an, where they used the last of their funds to travel by ship to Capital. In Otumat, they have traveled for three months looking for odd work to get by. It is through this method that they met Illbrew and Gandar in Hopeshire where they agreed to join the caravan escort for a fair share of the spoils.