Okay a small explanation for everyone not involved in the previous rpg about Gina. Even then Zats was intended to be a semi loner, mostly due to some level of social awkwardness, who still cared about the tribe and his siblings. Anyway on the first or second day hunting he teamed up with Gina, a female Goblin, who turned out to love climbing trees. Gina seemed to really like Zats and the two of them hit it of in general. Before long they were the first and only couple in the rp, downside was Zats didn't get a lot of time to practice skills outside of battle. Fast forward to the church Gina somehow contacted Shirila through her shrine and revealed her desire to climb the world tree.

Shirila, weakened, because some other god or Goddes was taking her place among the humans ended up making her her high priest, and later made Zats Gina's guardian and entrusted him with the Everoak shield a magic artifact, though I can't remember what t does, despite Zats admitting he wasn't sure she was a God and only doing it for Gina's sake. 

And that is how due to story progression an agnostic magic inclined loner ended up being a physical powerhouse with a shield given to him by a Goddess so he could protect his high priest girlfriend and I learned story trumps character concept. Mind you that summary probably wasn't 100 percent accurate since it was a while back and I wrote it from memory.