"Big Joe" Grusha

Big Joe was a farmer in the Demon Wastes. His mother and father raised you to live a modest life, and that keeping yourself true to this lifestyle may one day result in breaking the ‘family curse’.
While selling crops at the nearby town, your father met your mother, Durlyle . She was another Tiefling like him, serving as a waitress in the town’s tavern where she was particularly prone to witness the cruelty of the patrons due to her appearance. They connected on this level, he could emphasize with the nature Tieflings were treated. They eventually both moved back to the farmstead, and created you, Joeshus. Big Joe makes his living selling his crops and pelts from his hunting adventures in Krita. He makes enough to buy things like his horse, its feed, and some farming equipment, and the tools for maintenance. He keeps a stash hidden away, just for the sake of greed. He loves looking at it grow, and imagining all the material items it’s worth. He will go out of his way to shake down passing travelers just to see it grow more and more. He keeps it hidden though. His parents always taught him to live modestly, but there’s something deep down inside him that wants more, and more, and more. He doesn’t know it’s the Rakshasha blood. Word got out of the stash, and bandits pledged to obliterate his livelihood if he didn’t give it up. His greed overpowered everything and he refused. In the middle of the night, he woke up to the smell of smoke. The bandits made good on their word and burned his crops, sewed his field with salt, and slaughtered his horse. In response, Joe slaughtered them all while fueled by a rage he hasn’t ever seen before. It was almost too easy. The party comes across the farm the day after the raid. Joe is throwing his hatchet at a target made of the bodies of raiders while contemplating what to do next.

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Unknown to him, his family has taken massive strides to separate themselves from their fiendish nature.
His great grandmother Aushwa was a member of a small orcish tribe in Taldor. She bedded a Rakshahsa fiend under the disguise of another Orc man, who was enjoying the pursuits of violence and plunder to satiate his lust for worldly pleasures. When she became pregnant, the Rakshasha revealed his true form as a thanks for bringing another Rakshasha into the world. While she would keep the child, she murdered her mate while he slept as vengeance for the deceit. When she gave birth to your half-fiend grandfather she named him Hushwa, and due to his nature you were both exiled from the tribe. She would raise this child to resist the fiendish temptations his bloodline would bring to him, and live a simple life. When he was strong enough to fight, they made their way west to the outskirts of Pezzack in Cheliax. They survived the journey thanks to Hushwa’s highway robberies, and intimidating villages into buying the stolen goods. They only took what was needed, and nothing more. While journeying over the Menador Mountains, his mother slipped and fell from the path and died. Hushwa would continue his journey through the mountains and onwards to the city with anger in his heart for the weakness of his mother. Once he came across a farmstead in the mountain he decided to relieve his anger and slaughter the inhabitants and take it for himself. He would make this his home, and use the skills over this journey to forage, hunt and rob, which he would sell at the nearest town. He continued this until he met your grandmother, a half orc who lived a modest life as an apothecary's assistant named Lendy. She taught your grandfather to use the farm to grow crops. She eventually became pregnant with your father. As a result of the half-fiend bonding with a humanoid, he came out a Tiefling. Your grandfather despised him, as it reminded him of his own tainted creation. Your grandmother protected him though, and continued to teach him their modest ways of life, until Hushwa eventually left as he could stand the sight of your father, Unwaigh.

His farm was raided by a bandit gang named the Black Leopards. The day after he fought them off he join the Sonet of Souls.

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Motivations/Goals: Find a new career (early) find out who he is (grand)

Virtues/Perks: Loyal, Care free

Vices/Flaws: Borderline illiterate

Likes: Cooking, trick shots with hatchet throws, rock lifting

Dislikes: Greed, Wealthy

Fears: His own fiendblood tendencies (lavish spending)

Secrets: Subconscious self-hatred

Important Person in your life 1: Durlyle, mother (deceased)

Important Person in your life 2: Unwaigh, father (deceased)

Important Person in your life 3: Jimothy, Merchant who sells my goods in Krita market, longtime family friend (farmers market, food)

Any plot points you would like to see happen with your character? Find out and confront my fiend blood nature

Any plot points you don't want to happen with your character? N/A, we’re goin with the flow

Author: KazutoDM

Place of origin: Northern foot holds of the Mendador Mountains “Generational” Farmstead