This is the guy I'll be using in Shatterdown... Probably ~HUMAN~! (A justifiably buff one, nonetheless!) Chimaera, pen name Auxlang (a popular nickname for "universal auxiliary language" in our time... aka, a language that everyone can understand 8D Gives you an idea of his theme.)
He writes books about existing and emerging cultures and will help out tribes and such in return for staying with them awhile to study their ways. His goals are something like providing the tools necessary for people to understand each other and so be able to work together, even when they have grown so apart with no overarching societal structure to keep them on the same page.
I have an idea of what kind of social/environmental setting he comes from, but with this much he already has a reason to be traveling with different people.
He makes his own paper out of grass/other plants suited to the task if there is no paper readily available in this setting. It's really simple to make, actually- even though homemade paper is not as nice as our printer paper xD;
Silly pose courtesy of Jiboo's roommate. It's been cropped to the top half because the bottom half has nothing on right now. Speaking of which, WHAT SHOULD HE WEAR... I'm still in the process of modernizing his clothes for Shatterdown. I don't know if his usual layers of tapestry would work out.