Born to a pair of farmers, Hiiram came into the world at an inauspicious time. Recent crop failures had been blamed on demons, and though his infernal features were barely noticeable, the Melech family became the scapegoat for the community. Forced to flee, the family eventually settled down in Absalom, where the tiefling boy's father took up work as an unskilled laborer, and his mother as a baker. But unlike their simple life as farmers, the hustle and bustle of the city wore on Hiiram's parents. As he aged, his parents began to grow more and more despondent, and the blame for this was clearly pointed at their son.
When he turned 19, after years of trying and failing to find employment of any kind, the tiefling had had enough. Gathering his meager belongings, he stole away from his home and his family. Just by the circumstances of his birth, of things his family did decades or even centuries ago, the melancholy Melech boy had suffered through years of prejudice and disrespect. But now a man, Hiiram steeled himself to make a name for himself, on his own.
Of all the places that Hiiram visited after this, the Church of Nethys was the most welcoming. More than the distaste for his kind that he expected, the Nethians were more than happy to welcome him for the chance to study him. What had been planned as a few nights in the Church before moving on to another warm building to sleep in had become weeks, and then months. The warm (if a analytical) welcome from the clergy of the All-Seeing Eye convinced the young man to stay. And in time, Hiiram became enamored with the art of magic, and he too became one of Nethys' disciples.
Now, after many years of study, Hiiram is a well-respected evangelist of the All-Seeing Eye. Trained in magic, alchemy and martial arts, he keeps to the shadows, from which he serves Nethys and prevents the misuse of magic. This has led him on a quest to explore and experience the many forms of magic from the various parts of the Inner Sea. Today, he arrives in the lands of the Linnorm Kings, curious but wary of the magics of the cold north.
Personality and Appearance:
Hiiram is a generally a soft-spoken, reclusive fellow. He tends to prefer to blend into a crowd or spend his time by himself, studying magic. However, he is friendly and open with those he considers trustworthy, showing them a confident and, at times, smugly self-assured countenance.
Hiiram is a tiefling man of average height and weight. He appears, for the most part, to be a normal human with a few marks of infernal heritage. His silver hair and amber eyes are very fetching, but tend to be ignored in favor of his small red horns and short, scaled tail. He also has birthmarks of infernal runes on his stomach and legs, and small growths of red scales on his elbows.
