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Name: Ursa
    Class: Fighter Trainee
    Character Specific Skill: Fortune
    Affinity:
    Personal Fault: "Is this something you eat?": When using a healing item, -5 to the amount of HP restored
    Personal Skill: Dislikes Arrows: +15 Hit when attacking a bow-wielding unit
     
    Preferred stats: STR, HP
     
    Weapon profs: Axe (E)
     
    Level: 1 (0/100)
    Total Level: 1
     
    Progression spent: 330%
     
    HP: 20 (80%)
    STR: 6 (70%)
    MAG: 0 (00%)
    SKL: 4 (60%)
    CON: 7
    AID: 6
    LCK: 1 (10%)
    DEF: 3 (30%)
    RES: 0 (30%)
    SPD: 3 (50%)
    MOV: 4
     
    Inventory:
    Name            Type  ()  RNG  MT WT CR Hit QL
    Hatchet         Throw (E) 1-2  5  4  5  85  35/35
    Vulnerary (3/3)     
    Bio:
    30 years ago, a merchant caravan passing through northern Durhiel was set upon by bandits and brutally slaughtered. One young woman, clutching a baby to her chest and dying from two arrows in her back, managed to escape the massacre only to collapse in some woods. The infant's cries attracted a bear sow and her cub, who took the now-orphaned boy and raised it as her own.
As the years passed, the child - and later man - grew big and strong from his rough-and-tumble lifestyle and wrestling his "brother". Tragedy struck when one day, a pair of poachers killed the wild man's adoptive mother, thus orphaning him for a second time. Enraged, he took up a nearby woodcutting hatchet and brutally dismembered the two, before spending the entire night howling in grief.
Once again, his cries attracted a friendly face. An elderly scholar from Osngaria discovered the man, and despite his shock at the state of the poachers recognized that it had been an act of vengeance rather than banditry. This scholar, named Balthazar, took the wild man under his wing. He gave the man a name: Ursa, based on his history with bears - and taught Ursa how to use language and survive in the civilized world. Sadly, Balthazar was old and frail, and passed away of natural causes just a few years later. Ursa buried him deep in the woods and returned to his solitary lifestyle.
Ursa's poor use of language might lead others to think he's stupid. He's not; far from it, in fact. However, learning language so late in life means that he will never be as fluent as someone who grew up around it. He has difficulty using pronouns, dislikes words with more than two or three syllables, and sometimes drops words entirely. He has only a child's grasp on the written language; his favorite book is a beginner's dictionary and his handwriting is near illegible. Finally, he's not very good at hiding his feelings in social situations, having spent only a few short years among other people.