Pathfinder: Saga of Fate/Whittaker

Whittaker is a grippli gunslinger and cleric of the goddess Pharasma. He is assisted by a permanent undead he has created named Rotbeard.

Backstory
Whittaker hails from a small grippli tribe in the treetops deep in the Mwangi expanse. At the time, his name was Ziiglun. While living there, he joined a circle of clerics who worshipped Pharasma, the goddess of death. The circle created undead of creatures who met their end in the harsh jungles. They used these undead to protect their village from outside threats.

Creating undead is forbidden among Pharasma's other worshippers, however. When Mwangi human clerics of Pharasma discovered what these clerics were doing, they destroyed all of the undead as well as the necromancers that created them, except for Ziiglun who managed to escape.

Ziiglun ran far away from his village to escape the clerics, traveling all the way to the Shackles. Taking further steps to avoid being discovered, Ziiglun hid out in the sewers of Port Peril, the capital of the Shackles. Furthermore, he changed his name to a more human name, Whittaker, and always wore a hood that covered up the top half of his face whenever he had to go to the surface.

One day while Whittaker was sitting in the sewers, a dead body fell in front of him. Deciding he might need extra protection if Pharasma worshippers ever found his location, Whittaker created an undead skeleton of the body he found. However, Whittaker hadn't used his necromancy in a long time, and he made a minor mistake in the ritual. The resulting undead was somehow intelligent. Not only that, but he thought he was a notorious pirate captain in a past life. He called himself Rotbeard, as some sort of self-deprecation. Despite being intelligent, Rotbeard did everything Whittaker commanded him to do, as a typical undead would.

A while later, Whittaker found a seemingly broken pistol in the sewers. After some tinkering, Whittaker managed to make it work and started training with it so he had something to defend himself with other than his necromantic powers.

After a few years of living in the sewers, Whittaker figured the clerics probably forgot about him by now. Whittaker returned to the surface, and this time he was there to stay. In order to blend in with the people of Port Peril, Whittaker used a spell to make Rotbeard appear as a normal human, while Whittaker would cover himself up with robes. Whittaker pretended he was a child wearing robes while Rotbeard pretended to be his father.

On Rum Punch, an annual holiday in Port Peril, Whittaker and Rotbeard attended the festival in disguise. He received word that a pirate captain named Varossa Lanteri was looking to hire crew members. After hiding underground for so many years Whittaker wanted to get out and explore the vast ocean. Whittaker had Rotbeard apply to become a crew member and put in a good word for him. Rotbeard won over the captain through tales of his high seas adventures that he never actually had. They let Whittaker in when Rotbeard told them Whittaker was his sidekick and also really good with a firearm.

Once Whittaker and Rotbeard joined the crew, they met five adventurers who had also recently enlisted with Varossa's crew. Those five adventurers were Pavo Cripin, Hanji K'zotii, Hiroto Kituhara, Raalnorg Bomarg, and Lu Kong.