Interesting Facts about Maerkkus

• He has no last name, or at least none that he bothers to mention. He's just Maerkkus, or Mad Maerkkus, or other descriptive terms of less than a positive nature.
• Despite being Aesir, he has no Northern accent, and sounds like your typical surly Alexandrian.
• He first broke someone's nose when he was twelve years old.
• He cracked someone's ribs by the time he was fourteen years old.
• His parents were con artists and general low-life criminals, perpetually moving from community to community. Though no one's really seen them around Alexandria.
• He has been in one prison or another a dozen times or more, for various sentence lengths.
• His most common infraction of the law is getting into fights for various reasons.
• He has yet to kill or permanently cripple someone, fortunately.
• He enjoys drinking and a good laugh, even at his own expense. Attempts to goad him into fights through insulting him don't really work, at least not in the usual way of getting him angry.
• He enjoys fights just as much as laughter, even if he loses; though ones where he remains conscious are arguably better.
• He enjoys gambling, though not as much as drinking or fighting, as evidenced by his dwindling monetary savings.
• When not drinking, fighting, wenching, gambling, or sleeping off the drinking/fighting/wenching/gambling, he is looking for work as an adventurer. His particular services are straight forward and don't need any further explanation.

"A spilled beer? And you want to fight me? If I knew that's all it took, I would have ordered a whole pitcher of this swill and tipped it over your head! You see, your annoying voice has been bothering me all night. What's that? More prattling out of your annoying mouth? Get outside, already."