[u]Name:[/u] 'Jay' (based on the lone initial on his book)
[u]Race/Gender:[/u] Human male
[u]Appearance:[/u] Red-orange hair that has grown a bit long from its time unattended, dark green eyes, tanned skin, scrawny, wearing a dress shirt/green vest/black pants (am working on a sketch)
[u]Background:[/u] Jay's story, as much as he can recall it, begins out in the frontier with no recalled memories and only a book written in cipher. Luckily for him, he was not far from civilization and so was only moderately dehydrated and starving when he finally stumbled into the nearest town. While he was recovering, he had a lot of time to think - why was he out in a place apparently so full of beasts? How had he gotten there? What was he doing out there? Also - hadn't he had a friend? The details were vague but he was certain he hadn't been alone. What happened to him? Thus, once Jay recovered and confirmed no one seemed to know who he was or anything about another person perhaps wandering in from the Frontier, he did some work, gathered coin, purchased supplies, and prepared for the trip back out to the Frontier.
[u]Personality:[/u] While J remembers how to do things, he could not tell you where or how he learned these things. As an example, while somewhat squeamish about blood, he's surprisingly good at field dressing and at cooking meat. How he came to acquire these talents, he has no idea. He also enjoys discussing philosophy and will happily engage someone for hours on end. He often has a hard time reading the room, though little such issue reading books. He views his ciphered tome as more of a puzzle than an obstacle and considers it a form of entertainment to work on deciphering it.
[u]Inventory:[/u] Rations, waterskin, backpack, matches, 2 candles, hemp rope, bottle of ink, an ink pen, parchment, spare set of clothes, razor, leather armor, and a book with the initial 'J' on it and filled with ciphered text.

(Full backstory has already been PMed to GM)