Yeah, I think the problem with tossing all of that exposition into the forum proper is that it clutters things up and cuts Jokim off from all of you guys and your characters. He'd get trapped in his own history, instead of existing in the present.
I actually didn't intend to have any flashbacks, but things have been slow here and I had some time over the holiday, so I started asking myself about the character's past, and a bit of a story line popped out.
To get the real deal on Jokim, though, he'll have to start interacting with the other characters in Edoras. He can't do that while he's holed up in a carriage with Ollie the giant, so I'm hoping we can kick start things a bit and begin throwing characters together and seeing what happens. That's where it gets fun, after all.