Jeremiah Dubois

Background

Description

Medium height and build with light brown/olive skin and epicanthic folds. He has shoulder length dreadlocks that he keeps pulled back into a queue with a strip of rawhide, and light brown eyes. He has a lean, wiry physique with a number of scars on his shoulders and chest. Typically dresses in worn fatigue pants with buckskin boots that lace up to the knee, a buckskin tunic and an old Marine field cap (the baseball-cap-looking one). In the winter he wears a long buckskin and fur coat with fur-lined gloves and boots.

Story

Jeremiah is the son of a farmer's daughter from Washington that was raped by an AWOL Japanese sailor. At the age of 12 he ran-away from his unhappy home. He made his way to the wilderness, where he felt more at home. Two weeks' later, nearly starved to death, he was discovered and taken-in by an old mountain man who lived in the Cascades. He taught the boy how to survive, hunt, fish, and how to defend himself. When Jeremiah was 17, the old man died -- by this time, Jeremiah was more than able to take care of himself. He enjoys the solitude of the life of a "mountain man"; from time-to-time he makes trips to "civilization" to sell furs, leather goods he's made himself, stuff he's salvaged from ruins, etc.

Several years ago, Jeremiah was nearly killed by a Grizzly Bear - when the bear charged him, Jeremiah instinctively extended his katana, and the bear impaled itself. The bear was slain, but not before it mauled Jeremiah pretty bad. He managed to make his way back to his cabin and nurse himself back to health - barely! He still bears the scars of the attack on his shoulders and chest. He has nicknamed his katana "Bear-Killer".

As time has gone by, he has became more and more well-known to the traders in Portland (among other places) and sometimes takes "odd jobs" - acting as scout, tracker, wilderness guide, and on a couple of occasions, bounty-hunter. He has been known to spend a day or two in Portland, drinking and gambling (mostly gambling).

He lives deep in the mountains, about two day's ride from Portland.

Talents

Attributes

Attribute	Permanent	Current	AST	CST
WT	17	17	8	5
WL	13	13	6	4
STR	15	15	7	5
DFT	20	20	10	6
SPD	20	20	10	6
HLH	28	28	14	29

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