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About Sifiso Firenze

Alternate Racial Traits
Granite Skin
Ferrous Growth

Traits:
Heirloom Weapon
Fate's Favored

Blessings
War (Minor blessing replaced with Divine Fighting Style - Urgathoa's Hunger)
Glory

Feats:
Level 1: Weapon Focus (Scythe)

Standing just a hair under six feet tall, and bulky enough to look short, the first thing anyone is likely to notice about Sifiso is the blackened burn scars that slash across the rough brown skin of his face - marks of the self-imposed ritual he undertook to prove his devotion to Volcano. His narrow, deep-set black eyes dart and glitter with restrained hunger and cynicism over a flat nose and wide mouth that hooks slightly at the left corner. His voice is a gravelly bass, which sounds particularly odd given that he speaks in a diffident way that at times devolves into a stammer - particularly when put under any sort of social pressure.

This is the first time Sifiso has seen any of his family in about 7 years. As a child, he suffered from a "blood weakness" (in modern terms, a combination of anemia and hemophilia) that put a burden on the rest of the family - a fact his mother was prone to bring up frequently and at length. Upon reaching 17, he had simply had enough, and decided to leave to seek his fortune. His father, while not exactly approving of this, didn't try to stop him, and gifted him with a weapon of sorts - a cold iron scythe he'd always been fascinated with, and uses to this day.

Sifiso worships Volcano due to an incident three days after leaving home. Having never trained in any sort of combat, he found himself attacked and almost killed by... A single wolf. He was saved by a cleric of Volcano, mocked for his weakness, but was eventually persistent (and pathetic) enough to persuade the old woman to teach him what she knew - or as much of it as he could learn. She also cured him of his blood weakness - "Volcano has no use for weaklings." He lived with and learned from her in her forest camp, until she eventually despaired of any further progress on his part (he never did reach the level of spellcasting prowess she expected) and went on her way, curing his blood weakness as a final gift.leaving him to eventually, uncertainly make his way home.... Just in time to learn of his father's death.