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After skimming through the Player's Guide, I'm still leaning towards playing Alex rather than coming up with a new character. The most likely trait would be Rescued (by Koya). Alex came to Sandpoint to escape some trouble he'd gotten into, but some of it followed him there and would have spelled the end to his exploits had Koya's kindness not intervened to save his life. Though he's spent the last several weeks/months in town lying low, he's ready to strike out once more for new horizons. What better way to get out of town and repay his debt to Koya than by accompanying her caravan, at least for a little of the journey?

Alright, I haven't had a chance to do any more than glance over the Player's Guide (finals week). I'll try to find the time to read it a bit more thoroughly over the next couple of days and either figure out how Alex fits in, or come up with a new character concept if need be.

As for Gawg's gear, I seem to have missed the miscellaneous goblin gear part of your initial post. I'll update it with the trinkets and odds and ends suitable to an aspiring voodoo Goblin xD

Alex is the orphaned son of a knight of Sarenrae who was raised in a small monastery, and is a distinct disappointment to said monastery's inhabitants. Even as a young boy he made friends easily, and on his frequent and illicit escapades in the village beyond the monastery's walls he was able to smile his way out of trouble with just as much ease as he sauntered in. As he approached his adolescence, the boy showed an ever greater propensity for indulging his desires rather than his angelic bloodline (much to the ever-growing distress of the Abbot).
Matters came to a head just shy of his sixteenth birthday, when Alex was supposed to take his ascetic vows. Instead, after an incident involving mead stolen from the monastery, a farmer's daughter, and a wagon conned out of the hands of a merchant, the Abbot barred Alex from the monastery, wishing that he live a good life and forbidding that he ever return (both statements with equal sincerity).
Although his pride was wounded, Alex saw his forced exodus from his childhood home as the opening scene of the grand adventure that was to be his life. He fell in with a group of Sczarni for a time (and fell out again, in an incident he will still claim to not be his fault), spent some time in Riddleport, and even tried for a while to lead a normal life, for the novelty of it if nothing else (and also having garnered both unpaid debts and the attention of the law) although he quickly found that working for a living was just a little too boring to suit a fellow like him.

About Alex: Alex isn't inherently bad, simply self-indulgent (and occasionally uninterested in actual consequences). By the same token he's rarely actively malicious, and is generally fairly amiable (although eternally self-centered).He has little sense of responsibility or right-and-wrong, and is generally interested primarily in whatever has captured his interest at the moment (he's often easily bored). This boredom is a major motivating factor for him, as he'll often do something (especially when it comes to crime or other daring ventures) simply because he can or wants the challenge of seeing if he can.
A note, Alex's self-interest doesn't preclude him from working within a team. Although sometimes egotistic, he's usually smart enough to see the benefits to his self-interest that comes from working with a group when the circumstance arises.