Diogenes

Male Human 4th Level Cleric

Str: 17 Dex: 16 Con: 17 Int: 13 Wis: 10 Cha: 5

Physical Description: Diogenes

Languages: Greek, Gaelic, Russian

Born of a well to do family in Constantinople, Diogenes was fairly well educated. Unfortunately for that family, his education acquainted him with Diogenes of Sinope and the tradition of holy fools, both of which he was taken by. He immediately cultivated a habit of decrying what he saw as hypocracy, especially in his family and their friends. At the time this was taken to be little more than the brazenness of youth...that is until he began working in the garden to develop a cheap but nutritious food with which he could feed the poor. He developed a bean paste that he insisted could feed the poor of Constantinople at little cost to everyone else. When those who lived near or employed the poor caught wind of the olfactory side effects of the food his own family was put under a great deal of pressure to stop his crusade. Not taking kindly to his father's remonstrances, he took a vow before jesus to eat only this paste and left the city.

Upon his exit he spent about a decade living in a tree in the Ukraine, eating only the paste and contemplating what it would mean to live a life without convention and according to Christ. This decade long solitude may have driven him slightly mad, as now he talks to animals and insists to all who will listen (and many who won't) that eating this paste is very good for the constitution On the 10th night of the 10th month of the 10th year of his stay he had a dream in which Jesus told him to travel to Russia in order to root out hyporcracy in his church--as it was about to take root there in a major way. [...more to come]