Character Discussion

Manius Wardroxan is a Chelish man in his mid twenties with the pale complexion and dark hair expected for his people. He is above average in height and solidly built but his most defining features are the scars on his face. He had a run in with a demon as a child and still bears a reminder of the encounter in three deep scars from the creature's claws, one of which runs under a patch over his left eye. He is usually seen wearing heavy armor and carrying a glaive.

Despite his somewhat frightening appearance he is a kind hearted man who tries to find the good in everyone.

Manius was born in Cheliax. When he was a small boy a demon from the Worldwound suddenly appeared in his family's home. How and why it travelled so far was a mystery but demons and devils don't get along all that well and some thought that to be the why.
In any case the demon slaughtered most of Manius' family. Only most because somehow he lived long enough for a Hellknight to arrive and vanquish the demon. The fiend did quite a number on young Manius however and he gained many scars that have stuck with him ever since.

With his entire family dead Manius lived in an Asmodean orphanage. As he grew he got very involved in the church eventually joining the ranks officially as an Inquisitor. The scars he carried as a young man made him an outcast and all the other children picked on him calling him ugly. The idea of rising through the hierarchy of the church and gaining power over those underneath him appealed to him greatly. No one would call him ugly if they were his subordinates.

If someone asked him if love at first sight was possible he would have laughed at such sentimental notions. Until the day he met Viviana that is. He was travelling through Taldor on official business when he saw her. When she looked up he turned to walk away. Inside he was still the sad little boy crying because the others laughed at his scars. But she apparently saw something in the way he looked at her. She walked up and introduced herself. They got to know each other very well over the next few days. Manius also began learning the teachings of Shelyn as Viviana was a priestess of the faith. Once he heard the idea that "Beauty comes from within" he began to understand how she looked past his scars and started to feel a change in himself over the course of the next couple of years.

Manius gave up on Asmodeus and committed himself to Shelyn. He became a far more kind and loving person. Especially towards the love of his life Viviana. When she came down with a disease that none of the clerics in their small town could cure and then died of it he was devastated. He tried to carry on without her but had trouble finding beauty in life with her gone and he had never gotten all that good at creating beautiful things.

One day a memory, one that he had tried to forget, came rushing back to him. The day his family was murdered. He decided that if he couldn't add any beauty to Golarion maybe he could take some ugliness out. He left that very day for Kenabres.