Below, I give an excerpt of the character's in-game fiction:
"Few today could believe that the race of diminutive
figures known as the Beaklings could have evolved from a bird of prey. It's
true that many things can happen in hundreds of thousands of years, but even
so: it's hard to imagine that any amount of climate change or migrations of
food sources or any other kind of factor could turn a large, powerful flying
killer into the scrawny, chatty little earth-bound shapes they embody now. And
indeed: few things about them have remained constant through the flow of ages.
But there is one feature they've retained from their distant, flying ancestor:
a very, very good eyesight. Couple that with a natural intelligence as great as
any of the brightest species in Hadaara and a tendency to be nervous and
twitchy, and you've got yourself a people of demented little geniuses who can
assemble a rifle from scratch in moments and shoot a hole in your hat from five
hundred yards without a scope. And with your head still in it."