~A rather inauspicious drifter and occasional assistant to Regin Faolan's war party.

~Griffin is a scruffy looking, bony opportunist. He carries with him a devil-may-care ideology but, despite his sincere efforts, he hardly seems able to live by it. He lacks both the character and the windfall to do so.
His extremely idiosyncratic personality coupled with his naturally provincial mannerisms make him a rather humorous marvel for the aristocrats and military patricians he occasionally holds uncomfortable company with. Griffin is affable enough to meet his bemused audience with a flustered smile but, fidgety and uneasy, he prefers a rather eremitic existence where his ever-flowing reverie can go undisturbed.
Although by no means well-versed in social interaction, Griffin doesn't lack the adroitness to use his stunted and scrawny figure to his best advantage. His age is adult when it's convenient, and child when it works for his benefit. His presence is ephemeral in much the same sense-frequently taking the opportunity to rid himself of any responsibility, but holding inescapably amenable tendencies that keep him grudgingly accessible.

~Out of all the characters that inhabit my thoughts, Griffin is probably the most distant. I've had trouble relating to him all along. I think part of the initial problem was that he was too good-natured, but recently I've found a more interesting basis for structuring his personality. I'm only now getting around to liking him.
His design has never been much in question. He could be nothing other than a ratty looking youth with a look of anxious perplexity smeared across a gaunt face-not destitute enough to warrant too much sympathy or to make him appear sickly, but just enough to lend him the stringy, nimble look of a scavenger. I find his name to be quite ironic, and I think that's why I chose it. 'Griffin' brings to mind images of a great and fierce creature of myth, comprised of the two noblest archetypes I can think of, a lion and an eagle. Slapping such a stately name on such a ragged tramp is nearly as criminal as calling him something like 'Lancelot.' I rather like the idea.