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P H Y S I C A L I T Y

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Appearance
Hair: Ear-length ragged brown hair.
Facial Hair: Short beard. Brown.
Eyes: Brown
Build: A little skinny, but about average
Skin Tone: Weathered
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 154lbs
Voice: Cultured or rough. It depends on who he's dealing with.
Handed: Right-handed but pretty able with his left.
Body Markings: No tattoos. Birthmark on his right elbow.
Scar Tissue: Scars on his left cheek, chest, hands and left forearm.
Unique Body Features:

Name Scalon Nixshaed.


Nickname


Title Nightshadow.


Ethnicity Darinian.


Nationality Darinian.


Visual Age 25


Factual Age 23


Gender Male.


Sexual Orientation Heterosexual

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M E N T A L I T Y

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Personality Scalon is a man who is happy in his own company. His childhood was spent in a large gang of street orphans who operated under the ideology of strength in numbers, but he discovered quite quickly that he did not agree. Comrades were a weakness that could be exploited in the dog-eat-dog world of Northeld. In fights they could be injured and draw valuable manpower away from the fight or they could turn on you and place a knife in your spine before you even knew you had been betrayed. Petty infighting could mean they were less likely to guard your back and small groups were a clumsy, easy target for larger gangs.
Being alone means stealth, speed and the ability to make one's own decisions without having to argue – often with fists – against other members who happened to disagree.
Scalon is now a knife-for-hire, a mercenary who will sell his skills and blades to the highest bidder. When forced to work in a team by his employers he withdraws into himself, watching his colleagues closely and only offering his opinion if he feels the need. Knowing that even the smallest mistake could cost him his life, he is unforgiving of them and will distance himself from those who frequently make them – often going so far as to hand back some of the money he has been paid if he feels a team member is too incompetent. Either that or getting the man kicked from the job.
The very few people whom Scalon has befriended have seen another side to the reserved assassin. Gifted with a sharp wit, Scalon does have a sense of humour that he hides well though every now and then it will show through in the form of a sarcastic comment or a joke making light of often deadly situations.


Moral Alignment Chaotic Neutral


Motivation Motivated by a wish to rise from the poverty he was born into and prove himself to a world that abandoned him to the streets, Scalon has an inner wanderlust and adventurous spirit that prevents him from settling down to the quiet, easy life that is the dream of many – and the reality of few – in the slums of Northeld.


Fears Inquisitors, snakes, capture and torture, really, really high heights with no railing (e.g Church spires) (He can deal with lower heights such as rooftops), and Inquisitors. Were they mentioned?


Likes Adventure, a challenge, excitement, ale, good food, money.


Dislikes Bullies, the city-watch, drunkards, 'self-serving pigs'.


Strengths His agility, speed and quick mind.


Weaknesses His strength (or lack of. His small stature means he is generally weaker than the average brute).

Is your character literate? In what languages? Realising the advantages of being able to read and write at an early age, Scalon taught himself to read and write by sneaking into the houses of wealthy families and watching their children's lessons from whatever hide he could manage.

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C O M B A T || P R O W E S S

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Combativeness
Hand-to-Hand Combat: Good

Melee Combat: Above Average

Ranged Combat: Above Average

Magic Combat: Poor

Mounted Combat: Poor

Skills Scalon is one of the best knife-fighters around. His speed is almost unmatched and his quick mind is able to calculate an opponents weaknesses and strengths pretty quickly. He is also pretty good at throwing his smaller throwing knives.

Spells/Powers Although he doesn't have any magic as such, his sixth-sense is highly developed - no doubt from living his entire life in the war-torn streets and back-alleys of Northeld. It has saved his life on many occasions and he sees it as his own power.

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E Q U I P M E N T

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Items
A lock-pick for getting into places he shouldn't. And smoke-bombs in case he needs to create a distraction while he gets out.

Accessories
A small satchel containing rations, ale (water is generally polluted and filthy so ale is much safer), and first-aid supplies.

Weapon
Weapon Name: Duskfall
Weapon Type: Dagger
Material: Steel blade and cross guard, leather-wrapped wooden hilt and a dark-sapphire encased in the steel pommel.
Ammo: N/A
Length: 12"
Weight:
Weapon Description/Info: A steel blade with a simple steel cross guard, leather wrapped grip with a round steel pommel inset with a dark sapphire.

Weapon Name: Persuasion
Weapon Type: Dagger
Material: Steel blade and cross guard, leather-wrapped wooden hilt and a dark-sapphire encased in the steel pommel.
Ammo: N/A
Length: 10"
Weight:
Weapon Description/Info: A steel blade with a simple steel cross guard, leather wrapped grip with a round steel pommel.

Weapon Name: N/A
Weapon Type: Throwing knives
Material: Steel blade and tang, leather-wrapped tang
Ammo: 15
Length: 6"
Weight:
Weapon Description/Info: Perfectly balanced, Scalon's throwing knives are simple in design. They consist of a steel 3" blade and a steel tang wrapped in leather for a handle.

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B A C K G R O U N D

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Group Affiliation Growing up during the gang-wars that tore apart Northeld, Scalon survived as best he could, teaching himself to how to fight and, more importantly, how to run or climb so he could escape if he was caught in one of the all-to frequent fights that sprang up between the gangs. Not trusting anyone to have his back he set off on his own and owes allegiance to only himself but will work for whoever employs him until the contract runs out or the job is finished.


Marital Status Single


Relatives None - Mother died of the pox when he was young and his father was a drunkard who he never knew.


Origin Born to a prostitute in one of Northeld's lower-class brothels. Scalon lived on the streets and was forced to beg for food and coin to survive.


Social Rank Whatever the job requires. Scalon is respected and feared by many of Northeld's dwellers as an unpredictable, vicious loner with remarkable skill with his blades. Though those lucky enough to have fought their way to the top see him as a tool to further their own ends.


Occupation Anything from bodyguard to killer, thief to caravan guard. His fee is high and his skills varied.


Bio/History Scalon was born in a lower-class brothel in the district of Northeld. With his mother slowly becoming an alcoholic and (correctly) deeming herself unable to care for him, she left him at the steps of an orphanage wrapped in a tattered blanket. The Nuns who ran the orphanage took him in where they raised and cared for him as their Order demanded. At the age of four they began his lessons, teaching him the very basics of reading and writing and teaching him the ways of Vestalia, Themos and Sacris in the hope that he would one day become a priest or some other god-fearing man. At seven Scalon decided he hated the strict, ordered life of the orphanage and fled onto the streets, not realising the full consequences of leaving his sheltered life and diving headfirst into a world filled with violence, deceit, disease and death. By some miracle he survived, begging on the streets for coin and scraps of food or – when that failed – by stealing from stores, Church poor boxes and digging through the piles of waste in back-alleys.

At the age of nine, Scalon was taken in by a group of street orphans who were more than pleased to have someone of such small stature in their gang. Utilising his slight frame and innocent appearance, they taught him how to squeeze through small shop windows and steal whatever might be useful during the night and how to beg on the streets during the day and point out those who could afford to give more – the foolish men whose purses bulged with coin – for other more experienced boys to 'liberate'.
At eleven he was taught how to cut purses in such a way that the victim never realised until they went to pay for an item. Needless to say, Scalon found it rather amusing to see the fury on his victim's faces. In the dog-eat-dog world of Northeld there is no room for pity. Only survival or starvation.
His first major fight occurred when he was twelve. A rival gang of young boys wanted dominance over one of the more lucrative squares and ambushed Scalon and four of his comrades in a quiet back-alley. In the desperate struggle that ensued, of the five who had been attacked, only Scalon survived by scaling the alley walls, smashing a window and escaping into the house. He received his first scar during that fight when a rival's knife cut open his left cheek. He made his first kill in the next fight which he and his gang initiated in an attempt to seek revenge for their fallen comrades.

At sixteen his gang was recruited by one of the older, better established gangs. Again he was at the bottom of the pile and was given the lowly tasks that required few new skills and little thought. After surviving another fight – this one even more vicious than he was used to – Scalon decided there was more to life then the repeated cycle of gang life and left.
Although at first few wanted to trust their life to a seventeen year old, Scalon served as a bodyguard for some of the more, threatened, individuals and quickly built a reputation. Assured by his successes he was hired by the wealthy merchants who sought the dubious pleasures offered by Northeld. From there he served them as a spy, Sneaking into the houses of rival merchants and reporting back on their movements. For a little extra he would steal valuable commodities or ruin whole warehouses of stock by fire, rats or opening the doors and letting in a horde of street urchins who would take everything in sight, valuable or not.

The final expertise to join his growing repertoire was murder. Provided the pay is high enough to silence his conscience, he will silence whomever his employee wishes – within reason. It was this final skill set that really brought his name to the attention of the authorities and placed a rough sketch of his face on the few wanted boards throughout Korrigan.