Karg is a broad-shouldered gray-skinned orc standing nearly seven feet tall, with a heavy brow, sharply pointed ears, and prominent lower tusks. His left tusk is capped with a small brass ring engraved with prayers. He wears a battered chain shirt beneath dark blue clerical robes, carries a round shield painted with a silver open eye, and keeps his holy symbol tied directly to the shield's boss. His hands are stained with ink from years of copying manuscripts.

Quiet, observant, and unexpectedly gentle, Karg listens longer than most people expect an orc to listen. He has a dry scholarly humor and a fierce protective instinct, especially toward children, refugees, and anyone mocked for being uneducated. In conversation, he prefers precise questions to confident answers.

Karg was born among an orc caravan that crossed salt flats, mountain passes, and ruined imperial roads. His earliest lessons were not taught by priests, but by elders who memorized histories as songs and carved warnings into bone. When a fever took most of his clan, Karg was sent to a remote monastery because the monks believed his unusual patience and sharp memory could be put to better use than hauling water or guarding pack animals. He spent years repairing shelves, grinding ink, and copying damaged manuscripts, slowly discovering that the prayers he copied sometimes answered him. The monastery's library held a fragmentary account of an ancient sanctuary destroyed by a divine war. Karg became convinced that the surviving pages were not merely historical records, but a map to a lost refuge where the dead and the living had once been reconciled. He left the monastery with its blessing, a shield bearing the symbol of a watchful eye, and a duty to recover the missing portions of the account. Karg adventures as both scholar and cleric, seeking forgotten truths while protecting those who are dismissed as brutal, ignorant, or beyond saving.