One of many settlers who journeyed south from war-torn Cormyr, Raxam was a minor nobleman and a knight in service to Helm in his homeland. In Freehold, he serves as a leader and the captain of the Freehold Guard.

A large, somber human man hardened by years of battle, Raxam is typically no-nonsense and brutally forthright, a quality that sometimes serves as an asset and sometimes a liability to the Council, to which he was one of the first elected. His retinue of attendant knights, all soldiers during the Goblin Wars, initially served as a tightly organized but unofficial "neighborhood watch" before the formation of a recognized security force, with Raxam at its head. Concerned chiefly with the settlement's safety in a land of monsters, the cavalier rarely leaves Freehold.

Originally a PC, Raxam was converted to an influential NPC when his player retired during the decline of the original Unnamed Settlement game.