"Your life ended the moment I was given your name." -Reap 'The Shade' Castion, seconds before killing Prince Elenthral of the Elves.
Quite with a taste for dark humor Reap rarely trusts anyone. He is cold blooded and emotionless, often focused on doing nothing but the job at hand and getting paid. He doesn't ask questions, and he doesn't make the same mistake twice. To double cross him is to bring on a vengeful wrath that puts hell to shame. Despite all of that he is indeed a man of honor, and will not break a deal once struck. He bears a burning hatred for all Lizardfolk and seeks to eradicate their breed from this world.
[IN EQUIPMENT]
Beginning Armor: Light black tunic enchanted for magical defense and designed for speed and maneuverability.
Beginning Weapon(s): Steel Katana which Reap uses when things get to close or personal, poison laced needles, and a double bladed Chain whip designed to Reap's custom requests in a dwarven forge. Rumor has it the weapon, sharp as the day it was made, cost a small fortune.
Fighting Style Reap combines the use of sword and bladed whip in a self designed unpredictable style he calls Doquinta built around speed and catching his opponent off guard. It is most useful against bigger, slower foes, making it easy to disarm and counter attack.
Favored Weapon: Double bladed chain whip (See pic) it is to him the most valuable thing he owns, having a multitude of uses from serving as a grappling hook, to a way to bind his foes and much more.
Other: he carries vials of many different types of venom and poison. He is also trained in the use of pressure points as a means of torture, and an expert at using stealth.
[IN HISTORY]
Born into 'The Dark Sun Dojo' An elite Martial academy that was famed to train the best martial artists regardless of Race, Reap was trained in the art of ninjutsu and martial arts from the moment he could walk. When he reached thirteen he was the dojo's greatest pupil, greater than even the older trainees. He never ceased training, never let his emotions delay him from his lessons and constantly strived to improve. Upon the day he was too graduate, at the age sixteen, the Dojo was attacked by an tribe of lizard folk. The tribe had one goal, to end the Dojo once and for all, and thus end the three century long rivalry they had been engaged in. The warriors fought hard, but the foe had numbers on their side. In the end the Dojo was overrun and burned to the ground, Reap would have joined his brothers in death if a Drow hadn't saved him.
The Drow it turned out, owed a favor to the master of the Dojo, and when it saw the Dojo burning came to help as much as it could. Since it arrived too late it would repay its favor by aiding the last member of the Dark Sun clan in anyway it could. For Reap this meant being taken to the UnderDark, where he would live for many years learning from the best. A task make considerably harder by the fact that he was an outsider, and frowned upon by many of the Drow. Through hard work, and unending dedication he slowly became more acceptable in the Underdark, by the young age of nineteen Reap had been fully trained in the art of silent killing by the Drow, a feat that was incredibly hard because the Drow normally trained for twenty to thirty years. and excepted as one of them. The first outsider to do so. He would accept and pass the trial test by performing his first Assassination, killing the lizard "Tahjmet" A lizard folk who ruled a nearby group of raiders. Still harboring a burning hatred for his sworn enemies, the only surviving Dark Sun clansmen performed the job mercilessly, and a steel Katana and lightning blue eyes were the lizards last sight.
Upon returning to the Underdark he was taken in as a brother. Yet he left shortly after, seeking to finally see what life was like when it was not consumed by training. His first year as an Assassin was extremely difficult, he was so young and fresh that few would hire him. They preferred Older Assassins with more experience. Finally Reap took matters into his own hands, he began hunting down the more veteran assassins and killing them. This gained him a quick reputation, and then his carrier truly began. Over the next few years of his life Reap would kill his way to being one of the worlds best and youngest assassins, leaving a trail of blood behind him. He obtained aliases such as 'The Shade', 'The Dark Blade', 'The Reaper', and amongst the Lizard folk he was called "The black death" and was considered a legendary adversary to be killed on sight. Identifiable by the crescent burn mark on his chest.
When the war broke out he had been one of many elite assassins hired by The Elven Lady Elbereth herself with specific orders to infiltrate the opposing army and kill Lord Garrett's most powerful commanders and generals. In secret the Lady gave Reap alone one other task, one worth a quarter of the palace's treasury, to Assassinate Lord Garrett himself. Reap accepted both tasks, and now performs one while waiting for the perfect opportunity to execute the other. His true loyalties however are a mystery to even himself, and on the road of war many things can change.