Wow. I read through much of the thread for the Sand Stalkers. good stuff. I would be honoured to play with this group. So here is my submission. You needed a healer, right?:
Character profile under construction here Mundinus.
Mundinus Galenus is a tall and skinny young man with an ascetic - almost emaciated look. His right leg is missing, replaced by a wooden peg. He uses a longspear and a small hooked staff as crutches. His face and eyes are handsome and penetrating. He wears flowing robes over a close fitting mail shirt. He carries a scimitar on his hip and a bright shield over his shoulder.
This young physician grew up in Katapesh - the son of a Pesh Dealer. While still a young boy a terrible fire swept through the tenement where he lived, Mundinus lost his leg in that fire when a huge timber crushed it, however he was rescued by a brave half-orc street urchin named Brebork.
Mundinus spent the rest of his childhood as an amputee and pesh addict in the care of the priests of Sarenrae. His experiments with various drugs and oitnments as well as his sufferring as a patient introduced him into the study of medicine. Despite the challenges of his handicap, Mundinus is convinced that his true illness during his convalescence in Katapesh was a spiritual one...and that the best healing he ever received was from the words of encouragement and hard lessons he received from the young half-orc Brebork - who often checked in on him at the darkest of times.
He believes that care for the sick requires more than technique and divine magic. It requires that the spirits of the infirm be lifted. It requires leadership and personality of a gifted physician. With time he came to be known among the healers of the temple as a bright young talent in the making - a gifted healer with supernatural powers. But he never attributed his power to the Goddess. He blasphemously insisted that the power was his alone.
As he approached adulthood he became more strident in his blasphemous egotism, so the Priests decided to avoid controversy by sending him to Absalom to study medicine in one of their hospitals there, from where he worked for several years, as an itinerant healer in the city as well as in the surrounding country. He achieved great fame and renown and was invited to become a private physician for one of the City's wealthiest patrons.
One day he heard rumours that far away in Katapesh his hero Brebork had fallen, and that deeds of great renown were afoot in the gnoll infested desert around Kelmarane. Longing for adventure, desert skies and a chance to do honour to his old friend, Mundinus sailed back to his old home to search for the Sand Stalkers and offer his services in their righteous cause.