Kiuz

Yellow Eyes.

Muscular Build - Dark Green Scales with a pale muted green underbelly and dark green crests. Strong Jaw.

Wardrobe; Kiuz often wears a white drawstring shirt that is a bit blood and dirt stained, as well as brown trousers with a hole cut at the back for his tail. He also wears two brown leather belts - one across his waist, the other diagonally across his chest.

The belt around his waist has a pouch, and a mason jar tied to it. While his pouch carries usual items such as gold, trinkets, and other little things, the Mason jar contains a small, evermoving presence of Fey spirits that often quietly chitter to one another or to Kiuz himself. A small gold ring with a tiny green gemstone floats within the mason jar.

The belt across his chest also goes across his back - it has a quiver for his bow and arrows.

Kiuz wears two brown leather arm braces.

Personality | “I cannot let them die.”

Kiuz is a kind hearted soul at his core, despite his initially intimidating appearance. He’s rather quiet amongst those he doesn’t know well, and is protective of those he cares about. He often tries to keep the party safe in smaller ways - helping them get to bed after too much drinking, offering them food during rests, listening to complaints, etc.

However, this more than often backfires. Kiuz has often kept secrets from the party through the thought process that he’s trying to ‘protect them’ - however, this usually gets outed in one way or another, leading the party getting frustrated with him. Though now, he is trying to be better when it comes to secrets.

Kiuz was born to a Lizardfolk tribe that was known for being welcoming of anything with scales - Lizardfolk, Dragonborns, Kobolds, the occasional Yuan-ti, tortle, grung, and from his memory, a single Locathah that somehow earnt the trust of his mother, the Tribes leader. She had become leader of their tribe after defeating his father in battle for leadership, and to the surprise of the tribe, winning. Through her guidance, the Tribe became as open as is. He grew up learning how to track & hunt through his tribe. Yet despite how open the tribe was of non-lizardfolks, they still stuck heavily onto Lizardfolk beliefs and customs - and was seemingly more vicious and bruteish than it was under his fathers guidance.

His tribe had a small ‘trial’ system - on a tribe member's day of adulthood. They would have to go through a physical trial in the form of a deadly obstacle course. The whole point was for the course to narrow down the tribe to make it only have the strongest tribe members and wipe out anyone too weak to complete it. If a clutch/group were to do the trial on the same day, it would be required that only half of the group pass, the weaker half are to be killed. Kiuz had been training for it his whole life - Almost all of his older siblings had passed the trial, apart from a rare few who had been only ever mentioned in passing as ‘weakling’s by his mother and siblings.

But when it came to the day for Kiuz to undergo the trial alongside his brother, he choked - he slipped and fell, and got his leg mangled in one of the traps. His brother had turned to help him, but they were both aware of the consequences - if the traps didn’t kill the trial-goers, their mother surely would. So, Kiuz’s brother left him there to suffer while he completed the trial on his own.

Kiuz managed to escape from the trap, and knowing that this simple mistake of getting caught into such an obvious trap would cost him heavily, he fled his tribe without a second thought or a goodbye to his siblings.

Kiuz travelled on the road for a few years - doing odd jobs for towns he passed through and hunting wild animals for food, until he came across a small village of mostly humanoid races. They offered him food and shelter and he ended up staying in the village, often doing work around the town to earn his food and shelter.

While living in this village for around 5 years, he fell in love with a Gold Dragonborn woman named Calantha, who he grew to cherish dearly.

This town occasionally would get raided by a nearby goblin tribe for its resources, and one day Kiuz decided to stand up to the Goblins by going to their village and killing the Worgs they often used to terrorise the village. It wasn't easy - a scar or two and a vow to kill these creatures if he ever ran into one again, Kiuz successfully had killed the pack. Celebrated in the small village, he stuck around for nothing else but the praise and admiration of the towns-folk,' protecting' them… and for his darling Calantha, of course, who was now expecting a child.

However, the goblin tribe did not take this lightly.

They had stealthily stalked Kiuz for days, watching his schedules daily routines until they had it to memory. They waited until Kiuz had gone hunting one day to sneak into the village and burn it down to ash. Kiuz had returned to the smell of smoke, the heat of flames, the screaming of the villagers. Not many survived.

He never found Calantha’s body. He hunted down the Goblin tribe, and in a fit of rage, killed the tribe's leader - the rest of the tribe had fled not wishing to face the same fate.

Kiuz, flooded with grief and guilt, left the burnt down village and wandered aimlessly for several years, doing jobs for cash and grappling with the grief of what he had lost until he came across a guild looking for more members to help out. Kiuz offered his services for some cash and a roof over his head, even if temporary. In any mention of a gold Dragonborn, Kiuz would attempt to eavesdrop as casually slip into the conversation, looking for any sign of Calantha whatsoever, believing that she may still be alive since he never saw her body.

The leader of this guild - Raphelia - slowly seemed to pick up on Kiuz’s interest in a gold dragonborn, and took it upon herself to dig for any possible dirt she may be able to use on Kiuz. So, Raphelia took it upon herself to learn more about Kiuz - secretly sending a few of her guild members to track down and find the town that he had come from.

When Raphelia found out about Calantha and Kiuzs’ past, she used it to her advantage - mentioning that he had heard about her to him in passing and that she was safely in her care. Kiuz would fight tooth and nail, work day and night for the mere mention of Calanthas name. For the mere mention of her name. As the years went on, he started to doubt that Calantha was in Raphelias care - but clung to the idea that she was alive.

One day, while on a mission for Raphelia, he stumbled across a grove of nature spirits who called themselves 'The Council'. These nature spirits quickly attached themselves to him, claiming it as his punishment for interrupting their sacred meeting. They claimed that they would take a form that, in their words; 'Kiuzs' simple scaley brain would understand' - Raccoons.

He, along with ‘The Council’ Continued to do jobs for Raphelia, while Kiuz tried to keep his connection to ‘The Council’ a secret while also trying to keep digging for information from Raphelia about Calantha.

One day he got particularly upset that she wasn’t giving him clearer answers and went to attack her out of anger, only to wind up in a cell to ‘think about what he did.’.