Ninfant Nimbletoes

Ninfant Nimbletoes is the scion of a long line of halfling adventurers, stretching back over one hundred years to his grandmother, an illustrious Desnan cleric named Nomi Nimbletoes. Nomi and her companions traveled far and wide, from the shores of Varisia to the deepest depths of Orv, and even the spheres beyond Golarion itself. As is often the case, their adventures culminated in a quest to stop an ancient, eldritch evil of unthinkable power from awakening from its millennia-long slumber and bring untold ruin to free peoples of Golarion.

Of the four able heroes that went forth to face this enemy in the final battle, only Nomi returned. There are some evils in the world that cannot die, and as the rest of the party lay shattered, Nomi realized that no ordinary magic or force of arms could defeat their adversary. In a moment of despair, she called upon the goddess Desna to bind the elder evil to her, containing it within her soul. In doing so, she saved her own life and that of all Golarion, yet she bound her family line to this power for all time.

Ninfant is wracked by occasional bouts of madness, losing control of his mind as the thing that shares his soul claws to get out. As a young man, he spent several years in the sanitarium near Sandpoint, having been found naked and covered with blood by hunters in the woods near the town. He has no memory of the acts that led him there, but ever since then he has been able to work strange, sometimes horrifying magics. Slowly honing his skills, he escaped the sanitarium a few years ago, having taken to wandering in an attempt to find some way to escape his curse. Through his new companions, he sees the possibility of some sort of redemption--particularly in the person of Ren Yoshida, whose disapproval confuses the strange halfling often acts as a spur for him to do better.

Despite his cursed heritage, Ninfant is generally a friendly, likable individual. He speaks in odd, quiet drawl, and is almost completely unflappable, displaying a curiosity towards the horrific and macabre that is disquieting to many. Standing at a towering three feet and four inches, he is quite skinny, with tanned, olive skin, dark brown eyes, and thick brown hair that he tends to cut for himself, sometimes a bit unevenly.