Character History
Demo was the living exemplar of the term 'everyman'. He lived in Zeltiva, earning a fair living catching fish, crustaceans, and harvesting edible seaweed from the bay and oceans surrounding the city. He was not terribly prosperous, sometimes going hungry when the catch was small or a net ripped, but he wasn't in danger of starvation or death either. Then came the winter of 293AV. Demo had never married, never had children, and was mostly a loner. He had no one to provide for him as he got long in the tooth, so he was forced to keep fishing to keep a (increasingly shabby) roof above his head. Catches were usually poor, and Demo slowly began to shed the few pounds of fat he had as he slowly began to starve. One day, returning home with an unusually plentiful catch of fish, Demo slipped.
The Bonesnapper was ripping up from the ocean with a fury and while trying to trim the sail and ride the freezing wind back into the bay, he fell. Demo fell less than 5 feet from the side of his boat into the icy seas, but the shock of the nearly arctic waters was enough to stun him totally.
Unlike many sailors and fisherman, Demo knew how to swim. Like many who fall overboard with no one to haul them back up, he soon regretted it. His toes grew numb first, as his kicks grew more and more feeble. Next came his hands, and his frantic splashing slowed bit by bit until only his head stayed above the water.
When a swell nearly lifted him back onto his boat, leaving him draped over the gunwale, Demo thought he had been spared by Laviku. He just barely managed to drag himself back aboard the small fishing vessel, muttering out thanks to any god that would have them through chittering teeth. But his grateful prayers fell on deaf ears when the very same breeze that had pushed him overboard in the first place stole the last iota of warmth from his chest and drove him from his body.
And so Demo Eidol, father and brother and husband to none, shuffled off his mortal coil.