Rikkuro was given to a monastery when he was only three. From what the moks living at that time say, his family needed to move far away and couldn’t guarantee the little one’s safety, more so being the baby strangely gifted.
He grew up with the monks, in the far away land of Tian Xia. His occult ancestry was soon clear to them, and he received the ritual tattoos at a very young age. The ease with which he could gather his Chi stunned everyone, but none of them seemed able to help him unearth its origin. When he was old enough, he gathered all the information the monks could give him and parted to seek his family.
Rikkuro wandered the land through some time, and finally managed to talk with the right people at the right time. He discovered that a part of his family was nowhere to be found, but a small branch was known to have moved to faraway Varisia, to the South. Having no other loose end to grab, he made his mind and went to Varisia in pursuit of his own past.
Once in the Inner Sea area, with his name changed to Rick for easier adaptation, he sought for the people named Kaijitsu, and was directed towards Sandpoint. There he arrives today, finding himself caught in the middle of the crowd that expects the beginning of the Swallowtail festival and the reopening of the Cathedral.
Rick is a very shy guy, both naturally and due to his cloistered raising. He finds himself quite embarrassed when he knows he is being a nuisance. He’s got a good resistance to pressure, though, and when things get ugly he knows how to reach his inner strength.
While he was shaved when he left the monastery, he has let his hair grow long since then. He’s quite fit and athletic, and wears ordinary clothes that allow him freedom of moves and cover his tattoos (serpent dragons along his arm length, ending with the head of the dragon in his hand, and planetary forms and symbols on his back). He could be taken for an ordinary traveller, only coming from far away as his facial features betray. Even his accent and manners have improved a lot lastly, and soon he’ll be able to walk among Varisians without attracting that many looks.
