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About Tomen X

Tomen is 6'2", 215 lbs, and has shaggy brown hair and mustache. His forearms show faint scars, and those who see his back will see a map of scars over its full surface. When outfitted for battle, Tomen is an imposing sight, carrying a long ranseur and a mighty flail at his belt.

Tomen X’s earliest memories are of pain, the searing, lashing pain of the whip every time he tried to do something fun or exciting. He eventually learned that if he did any of the normal things that a child would want to do, he would be whipped mercilessly until he stopped, and then whipped some more to “help him learn his lesson.” Some of the other slaves tried to caution him, or help him, but somehow he managed to never learn the lessons of subservience that his Chelaxian owners tried to teach him.

He was one of several slave children on the plantation, with no parents who claimed him, and no one, therefore, who taught him to bow to the Chelaxians and avoid trouble. He eventually learned that he had been bought as a toddler, and whoever his parents were, and wherever they hailed from, Tomen does not know to this day. With no parents, and no family, he has adopted a simple X as a surname.

Fortunately for Tomen, in his ninth year, the plantation he was on was liberated by Andoran freedom fighters, and he was brought over the nearby border into free Andor. He reveled in his newfound freedom, quickly becoming a favorite of the entire village of Freehold, which was populated mostly of freed slaves looking to make a new life for themselves. With the encouragement of the adults, he excelled in many physical activities, and learned the trade of the blacksmith.

On reaching adulthood, he declared that he had to leave Freehold, to help others reach freedom and happiness in their lives. He joined with the same band of freedom fighters that had rescued him, and learned to fight, but insisted in learning on how to defeat a foe without killing them, convinced that even his enemies deserved a chance to change their ways when confronted with the fact that they couldn’t simply control and intimidate those around them. Tomen has no qualms against killing monsters or beasts that threaten the lives of sentient beings, but when facing intelligent foes, especially humanoids, he always seeks to talk first, disarm them if that doesn’t work, and only as a last resort use lethal force.

Tomen spent several years liberating other slaves from thralldom in Cheliax, but decided that he wasn’t doing enough. There would always be more slaves than he could free. He began learning about the world beyond the Andoran/Chelaxian border, and upon hearing of the Pathfinders, decided that he would join them, and use their quest for knowledge to hope to find some lost knowledge or philosophy that would transform the world for the better, allowing each person to seek their livelihood as their hearts desired. The morning after hearing about the Pathfinders, he said goodbye to his friends, and headed for Absalom.