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Appearance-Nico is a large, rugged-looking man with a constant grin and a knowing look in his winking eye. With solid bone structure and a toned musculature, he's a fairly good-looking man. He has a brand on his chest that he hides.
Personality-Nico hates the concept of compulsion, and he rallies against anyone that tries to assume undue command of anything. He is a fairly generous and kind soul, although he tries to disguise it under a gruff exterior.
Backstory-Nico was raised in Cheliax by a middle-class family of glassblowers. When he was very young, no one would have thought he was exceptional, least of all him. He was on the track to become a glassblower and take over his parents' business.
Then his parents fell to financial troubles and under the predations of a so-called "friend". This friend tricked them into bad choice after bad choice, obfuscating what exactly the investment was buying or the risk would get them, until he revealed that he now owned nearly everything of value the family once had.
Nico was infuriated by this, and attacked the man, who quickly summoned the authorities while defending himself from the still young boy. Nico was swiftly arrested for assault and confined to a nearby prison for several years. He emerged with a burning hatred for oppression and Cheliax and imprisonment. He brought with him the key to his cell, lifted from the man who finally released him. His first destination was his parents' old glassblowery, now an alehouse under the ownership of the man who had cheated them. He couldn't find his parents anywhere, but it had been years. They could have gone anywhere.
Nico wanted desperately to leave, but he still had a task that needed to be done. He waited until the dead of night, went into the tavern, and set it aflame. He flew from the scene as quickly as he could, which was surprisingly fast, and stowed away on a ship. He spent a few months at sea before arriving in Absalom, and having little else to do, he went to the temple to Cayden Cailean. He chose Cayden because the temple was a tavern filled with partying and beautiful women, and because he desperately needed someplace clean to stay. The deity of freedom had always held a certain appeal to him, but when he met the priests and the kindness that they showed him, as well as the level of fun party they could throw. He stayed there for a long time, swearing himself to Cayden and serving the priests in every way he could. Every day he prayed to Cayden, and he swore that he would never abide any tyranny or slavery. Eventually, though, his wanderlust struck him. He went to the head priest to ask for his blessing to go to the Pathfinder Lodge, as Nico knew that if he wanted to travel, the Pathfinder Lodge was the place to go.
The priest did him one better. He took him to his private study. Explaining to Nico that the priest had heard his prayers to Cayden, and asked him if he could be dedicated to rooting out the enemies of the faith and whatever profession Nick chose. Nico responded that yes, of course he could. He was thereafter sworn into the faith as an inquisitor, dedicated to freeing the oppressed and defending the faith whenever possible.
The next day Nico went to the Grand Lodge to apply to the Pathfinder Society, and passed the tests and won the approval of the veteran Pathfinders through a mixture of charm, skill, physical power, and spontaneous magic powers manifesting themselves.
Reading through the Lodge libraries when researching a place to go, he stumbled upon incomplete accounts of an ancient Cyclopean empire across the sea, and hit upon it. He began to research the place, and after a few weeks was ready to go. He hopped onboard a ship, but unlike t he last time was not bereft of direction or purpose. He had a deity and a world-spanning organization at his back, and his eyes were fixed firmly towards The Shackles. He had made contact via sending with a man in the Shackles that claimed to have an important lead to begin his research on, and upon arriving in The Shackles went to a tavern to meet the man. Sitting down at the bar, he ordered a drink, uttering a silent prayer to Cayden. Unfortunately, the drink must have been laced with something, and the last thing Nico remembers in the world going dark and the mug looming into his vision as his head fell onto the bar.