Starfinder

Background

Jook Koncurum’s parents were a powerful but mad wizard named Wilcanta Koncurum and Rotty the town drunk.  The wizard dragged Jook everywhere that she traveled, and her deep resentment toward him grew with each passing day, each passing week, and each passing year until Jook was around the age of four, when Wilcanta the Mad had a plan! 

She was a genius alchemist and powerful spell caster by this time so she took Jook to a damp, dark forest.  While there she crafted a spell and a potion that would grant Jook temporary immunity to the ill effects of russet mold.  Jook looked upon the tribe of vegepygmies with strange fascination.  Wilcanta told him to never leave this area, and cast an invisibility spell and left…. forever.

Jook grew to be very “tall” as the years passed as he was bizarrely accepted by the vegepygmy tribe.  Well, “tall” for a vegepygmy.  In actuality, he was quite short!  He learned their language and was ignored by the tribe in the russet mold patch; however, he was regularly beaten by the savage vegepygmies if he interfered with them.  His body became a walking scar with his having wounds from years of vegepygmy torture due to his being a slow learner.  By the age of 14 a malformed treant named Rickenbranch happened upon the russet mold patch that Jook had called home for nearly a decade.  Noticing the heavily scarred human fluently speaking to the tribe of vegepygmies, the boy seemed deeply scarred on the outside AND on the inside; so, the kindly treant lifted Jook with his mighty branches and took him away from the only life he really remembered.  

Once safely away Rickenbranch kept the strange teenager with his other human captives and opted to act as his protector for a while because the treant knew that Jook could never survive in any “normal” society of any kind.  Having forgotten much of the common language that he once knew long ago, Jook solely spoke in vegepygmy until Rickbranch began regularly speaking to him in both common and treant!

As more years passed, Jook began to flourish physically and mentally as his dexterity and intellect exploded!  He learned gnomish and halfling from local, small hamlets, and he explored and respected nature intensely.  His love for his treant “father” led to Jook’s swearing to NEVER use wooden weapons of any kind, and he developed a strange uneasiness of fire of any kind as well.  Eventually, he set off on his own, but the adjustment to human society and towns was very difficult for Jook, who for obvious reasons became known to the locals as “Dirt Man” or merely “Dirt.”  Even after all of these years, he still found himself instinctively speaking vegepygmy first from time to time before correcting himself to speak common (with a treant accent).  Jook even self-taught himself to learn rudimentary Terran through the use of some dusty old, forgotten books in the library because he truly feels that he is "of the earth."  He survived as a pickpocket and rogue, though his heart was actually a good one.  Working on his weapon and survival skills, he began his adventuring career and agreed to help the wizard who then teleported him to...

It is harsh world

Argoth was born to the tribe of two suns. At birth the elder shaman foretold that Argoth would be a great warrior, who would one day wander distant lands on soft earth. Argoth began training in the unique polearm style of the great warriors of two suns and quickly proved his merit in combat. When the time came for the passage of manhood he performed beyond the Shaman's wildest expectations. The shaman knew that argoth would change the way that the tribe of two sons fought in battle.

A whirlwind of destruction would befall all of Argoths enemies. Even the shaman could not foresee the destruction that was to be wrot upon the tribe of two suns by the Gith. Argoth survived by being on a hunting quest. Upon discovering what had happened to his people, he began to wonder the desert.

In Darksun nothing thrives, it merely survives. It is a harsh world. 

The halflings ate everyone in the caravan except Argoth, the witch doctor was saving him for something special.

As the incantation rose to a screaming crescendo Argoth was teleported to...