Description and Background
Description:
He is tall, fair, pale, with blue eyes and blond hair which he wears long and braided. He like most in his clan wears a neatly trimmed beard. He is by nature stern, fierce and grave yet generous.
He is proud and willful, but true-hearted, generous in thought and deed; bold but not cruel; wise but unlearned, writing no books but singing many songs, after the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years.
Background:
Kharg Horse Lords
Fairfax was once a member of the Kharg, a tribe of horse-herding hunter-gatherers (no cultivated agriculture to speak of) who live on the plains near Hardway Mountain, which is part of the Griff range of mountains.
The Kharg were once part of a loose confederation of tribes known as the Rovers that worked together to keep out the humanoids from their lands, but outside forces made war upon them and scattered them to their separate ancestral lands to persist as best they could. The Kharg tribe is actually made up of three separate clans (the Wolf, the Boar, and the Bull clans) that meet once a year at an island in the middle of the Serpent River. He knows this island by the name of Rushmede Rock, and any may find it by following the Serpent River from its source in the Griff mountain range.
The Kharg's horse herds are dwindling, as are the Kharg themselves. Where once there were horses for every able-bodied warrior to ply lance, javelin, and bow, now the fighting men of the Kharg are made up primarily of the war-dogs: fleet footmen able to keep pace with any cavalry and to fight among enemy horsemen, hamstringing their mounts and disrupting their formations.
The clans of the Kharg live by the hunt, taking only what they need from the large herds of wild cattle upon the plains and gathering what other sustenance the land freely offers. They have no permanent abodes, but live always on the move, resting never for more than a season at a time and always, every summer-tide gathering at Rushmede Rock, where the shaman holds sway and passes judgment on those who fail to follow the honorable way of the Kharg.
Fairfax was 'ritually' sacrificed to the service of the Serpent God of Arn Flowmane (i.e., punished because it became known that he was a threat to Flowmane). The method of his sacrifice was to turn him loose in the Valley of the Serpent.
Fairfax's chief concern is for his people.
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