Appearance:

Dax is a clockwork construct made in the image of standard humanoids, but it is taller and longer and thinner limbs. Parts of their construction use vines and bark instead of metal.

Backstory:

Dax was constructed by Nyx, a gnomish tinkerer. She had created Dax as a throw away experiment. To see how close a construct could get to organic life. Since Dax was made as a construction designed to mimic organic creatures as such they have built in drawbacks to make them less robotic. These include but are not limited to: having to breath; eat; sleep; fears/phobias (Hights and Deep Space); and random illogic decisions.

Originally, Dax had a humanoid body that was indistinguishable from organic live forms, yet as Dax entered the community of other beings on his home shard. As he was slowly accepted as one of the villages, new arrivals came to the village. Armed with advanced arcane technology (I am leaving who these people are intently vague for now). These raiders took an interest in Dax, seeing Dax as a tool/weapon that could be used as a programmable spy. Nyx and Dax fled the shard, just barely escaping these raiders. During this escape Dax was badly damage and barely survived with their body destroyed.

Settling down on the shard Crannathragh, Nyx and Dax lived in a small house on the opposite side of the shard to the voyagers, hoping to remain hidden, recover from injuries, and live a quite life. Nyx rebuilt Dax to be better suited to surviving the dangers of the shard (thus their current form). While Nyx spent her time building a permanent home on the shard. Dax started to explore the jungle. Eventually they started to use the flora and fauna of the shard to their benefit. While Nyx and Dax lived there for many years, Dax gave a few anonymous reports on local flora to the voyagers but other than that they remain hidden.

That is until they came again.

The raider’s ships descended on Nyx’s and Dax’s home. Nyx convinced Dax to flee into the jungle were they could survive. While Nyx would destroy her notes on her inventions so they could not be used for ill. Dax ran, (later they would regret running). Dax returned sometime later to find their home in ruins. Not finding a body Dax assumed that Nyx had been abducted by the raiders. (Actually, Nyx had managed to escape and had been forced to leave Dax behind, She later returned but by then Dax was gone). Dax managed to get a ride on a voidship and is searching the Aetherverse for Nyx.

Fighting style: To survive on Crannathragh Dax had to learn to fight. Their fighting style focuses on using the natural properties of the magical plants on Crannathragh to fight. (think less arm waving and chanting, more throwing down magically altered seed that grow into spikes for spike growth for example).

Dax’s home shard: The shard Ry’keth is covered in a shocking variety of location given its small size. One can walk through a forest, a desert, a mountain, and a swamp in an hour. Given this mishmash of locations the shards ecology is bizarre. Further adding to the confusion, the shards is orbited by 4 very small elemental shard. One of fire, one of water, one of air, and one of earth. As these small shards orbit (called in order Ignis, Aqua, Aer, and Terra) the climate of the shard changes. The closest comparison would be seasons. With Ignis causing summer; Aqua causing winter; Aer causing spring; and Terra causing fall. These shards orbit the planted at a rate of 40 days per cycle. Another strange feature of the shard is the old shadar-kai obelisk that dot the planted.