1. What does your character look like? (Height, weight, age, appearance, etc.)
Cicero stands at a just about 6' and weighs 170 lbs, having put on some muscle during his travels. His looks speak of some Taldan lineage with the naturally darker skin and black, wavy hair, but he has lived in Razmiran all his life. He used to keep to traditional Taldan traditions with long kept hair and neatly trimmed and decorated beards, but in his travels through the Shadowlands he has taken to a more unruly appearance.
2. What is your character’s personality? & 3. Where is your character from? Golarion has changed a lot in the last few years. Where you are from can mean a lot about who your character is.
Cicero is rather jaded since the fall of Razmir and the city of Razmiran. Once he was a highly devoted Priest of Razmir and with it came all the life of luxury he had grown accustomed to. The stronger his devotion and conviction, the better rewarded he was. As the pending apocalypse grew worse Cicero never once wavered in his undying devotion, along with many others he believed that the Living God Razmir would bring an end to the suffering and usher them into a new golden age. Shadowfall was the first sign that things were not going to be working quite as everyone had hoped. As the remaining population of Razmiran cowered in the northern half of the country the Whispering Tyrant dealt a final, fatal blow to the country. Razmiran and the Living God himself were no more. With his only god dead and his home in ruins Cicero found himself a shell of a man. He was well within the territory of the Whispering Tyrant at that time and made his way south as far as he could using what tricks he had picked up as his time as a Priest of Razmir, until he finally collapsed somewhere within the Shadowlands.
4. Why does your character have the class, feats, weapon, etc. that they do? Where and how did they learn to fight? What made them take up this path?
Cicero takes an adaptive approach to living. Although he has always lived in Razmiran, he was not always destined for the priesthood. His family did not much care for it, despite being followers of the Living God. Cicero saw at a young age that being of the Priesthood would allow him advantages over his fellow man that his current toil did not. Now that the Living God has been proven a falsehood and his life of luxury had been stripped from him, Cicero has taken to a more survivalist approach to his life. Through lying, intimadtion, and stealing secrets Cicero was able to scatch the surface of Necromancy while he fled from the Whispering Tyrant; he's unable to do much with it, and is far from the proficiency of even an apprentice Wizard, but has been able to use it to keep himself alive.
His method of combat has mostly developed as he road hard to the Shadowlands. He needed a way to combat the dangers of the wild but never have to leave his mount for longer than necessary, and to keep riding if the threats became too dangerous. For a long while he tried a bow and arrow, but found it too difficult to learn on horseback. It was only by chance that he recovered an old lance from some long dead knight on his travels that he found a means to defend himself from others. It wasn't pretty, but Cicero was able to live through the day and that's all that mattered to him.
5. Is your character religious? If so, who do they worship and why?
No, religion is a long dead concept to Cicero. With the fall of the Living God his hope was shattered completely and although he knows other gods will try to interfere in his life he'd rather they stay out of it and leave their constant melding to themselves.
6. How has your character's life changed in the last few years? What has the changing world done to your character and what do you intend to do about it?
He's gone from a man living in high society on a track for only better things, to toiling fruitlessly on the harsh road doing whatever it takes to survive. Cicero cares not for his homeland and the lies that grew there any longer, referring to himself as a man from no country. Instead he hopes to adapt again, hopefully for the last time, and help to carve out a new home where he can once again resume his life of excess no matter the cost.
