Son of Grandmaster Glox, leader of the Iksar Swifttail monks, Bensaret trained in the fighting arts with his family for his entire life, learning both the philosophies of combat, meditation, and the teachings of the mighty Cazic Thule, the god of Fear.  The Swifttails, unlike the other divisions of the Iksar Empire, took a more unusual approach to Cazic Thule's lessons, deciding that he did not wish for fear to be used in a neccesarily evil capacity against others but rather as a force to master and control against themselves, fighting and training so that they would one day fear nothing, and those that opposed them would be forced back in fear before an Iksar would even have to raise a finger -- Glox based much of this philosophy on the fact that Cazic would continue to grant clerical and magical powers to his servants even when they fought against him, deeming that he wanted them to strive to conquer him, and thus conquer Fear embodied, if they could.  This philosophy was quite unpopular with the other Iksar factions, who merely saw Fear as a tool to use to torment those who challenged them and little else.  Deciding that his philosophy needed to be shared with the world and to demonstrate that the Iksar were not all a lost people, he sent his son Bensaret out into the world as an ambassador, knowing Bensaret's unusually good and yet courageous nature would serve as a buffer with the many "good" races that viewed Iksar along the same lines as the vicious dark elves, ogres, and trolls (especially following the kidnapping of the elf-princess Firiona Vie).

Bensaret, while somewhat naive, is in fact quite personable and friendly for an Iksar.  He believes in his father's philosophy entirely, and wishes to let the world know what he believes to be the true lessons of Cazic Thule, as well as to pave a road of better understanding of the Iksar and their culture in a world that would rather wipe them off the map.  Bensaret is fiercely protective of the friends he has developed in his travels, as he knows how hard it was to make them in the first place, as well as of his family, including his young sister Andgi, who often follows him about on his journeys.  While he still fears many things in the world, for he has not yet mastered himself and his abilities, he does what he can to confront his fears and make himself a stronger person; unfortunately, he has yet to be able to defeat his fear of the dark elf Envie, who he's not quite sure if she's a friend or not since while she is somewhat affectionate to him, she calls him "Pet" all the time and often cuts off parts of his tail when rations are short (or when she's just hungry).