Hailing from "a small village you've never heard of in the Kron Hills," Zam Stringstriker immediately comes across as a handful of contradictory character flaws that somehow mix together into an affable and self-effacing, yet confident young adult.
At first glance, his height would identify him as human, but a second betrays a curve to his ears, and something in the eyes that could only come from elvish blood. While he speaks Elven, it is obvious he is not quite fluent, the accent stale and clinical as if learned more from books than from use.
A natural aptitude for song and story caused him to be all but shunned by his human family, including his mother. After a particularly bad falling out, Zam left quietly in the middle of the night, with little more than a bow, a blade, a lute, and an old, elementary spellbook supposedly once owned by an elven father he never knew.
Riding a wave of "improbable charm, fierce luck and a lot of bad ideas," Zam has made his way to Sunndi in hopes of "finding someplace they don't hate you for sounding this good, or for being both--and neither--human or elf."
Hailing from "a small village you've never heard of in the Kron Hills," Zam Stringstriker immediately comes across as a handful of contradictory character flaws that somehow mix together into an affable and self-effacing, yet confident young adult. 
