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by LordSaladin on Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:53 pm
Ai Xulan, once a member of the Royal Quan Guard, is known throughout the land as one of the most powerful warriors there is. His skill barely matches by any but a few other of the land's elite soldiers. His rank in the Royal Guard was that of Captain, and he had, on many an occasion, stood beside the king to defend his life.
For an unknown reason, even to Xulan, he was removed from the Guard, and sentenced to death. It was likely some political thing, something he had sworn never to be involved in. And, as a man of his word, he has never done so. He was to be executed, as was always the case, in a forest, solitary. Decapitation was the bill of the day for him. Luckily, as much as he is able to use near all weapons, so is his body as effective as a blade.
He fought his way from the executioners, killing all but one. He left that young teenage boy to deliver the message Ai Xulan, greatest warrior of Quan, had been successfully killed. The boy was given one chance, and informed he would die if he failed in that task. He did not fail.
Ai Xulan is considered dead by the Royal Court, and by the vast majority of the public, although his memory still lives on, and people revere his great skill.
What is unknown to most, however, and even those who have dealings with him, is that, across the kingdoms, Ai Xulan is operating as an assassin, earning considerable money. His residence, unknown to all, is in the mountains, hidden deep within the bamboo forests. Surrounded by tall, strong bamboo, the man, nay, the legend lives within a great temple that had been left abandoned by some unknown party.
Now, as he feels the tensions rise in the land, he makes preparations to raise not a single assassin as he now is, but an army of them. Choosing to train them himself, Xulan begins to scour the land for young warriors who show potential. His intentions to bring them back to the temple, and teach them the ways of the warrior.
The temple, named by himself, if the House of Daggers, named such because of the thousands of daggers that would pierce unwanted visitors to the area, traps created by himself. House, also meaning family, will be the name of the assassin band he will create.
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