After being briefly kidnapped by a hag as a young child, Tourmaline returned home to find that he had been forever changed by the experience. Orange skin, strange markings, and a very prominent eldercross marked him different from then on. He continued his apprenticeship as a blacksmith, just in The back of shop now.
A fair bit older now, Tourmaline leaves home to make his own way somewhere that’ll accept him as he is, just needs to find some people desperate enough.