Tipene comes from a small village by the riverside, near Asmerade's Tears. He is a strong built young man, usually silent and introvert. He shaved his head when he began to lose his hair at a very young age, as most of his family's males, and has his arms tattooed: one with his clan's sacred animal, the hawk, and the other with his personal animal spirit, the fox.
His moniker was earned when he was a kid. His father wouldn't allow him to use weapons, so he had to learn how to outwit his opponents while fighting only with his shield and his fists.
After leaving his family, he wandered around with little aim, trying to find about his father, but in the end he found himself with no money. Luckily, some merchants offered him a good pay for escorting them to Tykren, and that he did. There, alone and hungry, he accepted a job as a bouncer in a popular tavern.
Tipene is well respected there, and his size and usually serious behaviour is enough to prevent any drunken halfling from causing trouble. But he still has his own goals, and he knows the more he postpones it, the harder it will be to gather news about his father.
Unbeknownst to him, there's a human blacksmith in town who fought alongside his father in the war, and might tell him how his father died. If only Tipene knew that and asked...
