| There's a character that I have long wanted to play; if you don't find him suitable, I'll happily make another pitch -- I've been really wanting some 3.5 gaming of late.
Simon Sinople is a Dread Necromancer (Heroes of Horror). He doesn't think of himself as a "dread" anything, mind -- he's just a man who's fascinated by death and what comes after. He considers himself a scholar of the afterlife, an explorer of the boundaries between the living world and the realms of the dead.
He's a nice enough fellow, for all that. Rotund in shape, red of hair and voluminous beard, and possesses a laugh which can carry for miles under the proper cirumstances. He's open, friendly, and likes both children and kittens. The former find him funny, the latter flee and hide under tables when he enters a room.
Alignment would be Lawful Neutral, he pays tribute to Boccob, and Brian Blessed would play him in the inevitable movie adaptation. I'm not as familiar with Greyhawk as I might be, but I imagine that Simon's been wandering for some time, searching out obscure bits of knowledge and recording funereal traditions for a monograph that he's been writing.
All feels a bit purposeless, though. He's looking for a Cause of some sort, although not entirely consciously. | 
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