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Whisper of Angles Character skeleton Username: AnCatDubh Character Name: Alerin ("Mischka" wink Age: 22 Ht./Wt.: 5'8"/ 124 lbs Race: Wildkin (Neko) Appearance: <--- (ignore the chibi appearance ;p) Home: Asterage
Powers: Magic and training as a "treasure hunter with a specialty in modern retrieval." In other words, an accomplished thief and con artist. He considers any encounter that involves lobbing offensive spells a failed venture, and favors those that aid in deception and travel.
Personality: Personable and charming, Alerin prefers to live life for the moment. "A fool and their wealth are easily parted" is a favorite saying of his, and to the intelligent young man, most all those of wealth are fools. His curiosity leads him off on adventure and the pursuit of happiness...usually bought with the coin of others. A locked vault is merely an invitation to see what's inside to his thinking, and the better the protections, the more he's determined to see what's inside. He disdains bloodshed, and sees himself as a gentleman thief when plying that trade, and as a spellcaster for higher and entertainer when not.
History: Alerin grew up in the seedier side of life in Asterage, and saw the imbalance in wealth and the issues it caused first-hand. His parents had trained him in the ways of being a thief, and would use him as a decoy to distract the chosen marks of his parents. He had a knack for magic though that ended up saving his neck when one mark noticed what they were up to and caught hold of him. The mark, a human mage trained in Magic's Veil but living in Asterage felt that such talent was wasted in being a common scamp and offered his parents a deal: let him take Alerin and train him in the mystic arts, and he'd turn a blind eye to their activities so long as they didn't target him ever again. They accepted, considering the alternative was jail time or getting blasted apart by the wizard.
Training under the mage, Crystos, Alerin quickly picked up the art of magic. The dexterity, mental acuity, and force of will he'd needed to survive as a scamp in the streets with his parents served him well in channeling and controlling arcane energies into spells. It also got him used to living in comfort and finer living, though he had a penchant for mischief. Crystos, recognizing an opportunity in the boy's talent's, sees an opportunity knocking and uses Alerin to "fetch" certain items from rivals. Some of these retrievals were part of an on-going annoyance contest between colleagues, but others were to retrieve more dangerous items from hands that Crystos felt they shouldn't be in.
It was ineveitable that one of these latter sorts would get miffed and seek revenge, and Alerin returned one night to find the tower ransacked and his master gone save for a note created by magic that was addressed to him. It led him to a separate cache that the canny old mage had hidden away that Crystos had intended on giving Alerin as a "graduation" present, as well as a couple other items that Crystos had once used but had stored away in favor of more powerful versions. Among these were a staff and dagger enchanted to strike truer, a cloak with a hood that provided substantial protection against the elements, a belt that held many extra-dimensional pockets, and a finely crafted set of lockpicks.
Taking these items, as well as the coins that he could find and gather, Alerin left the tower. Taking the trade name of "Mischka," he gains a reputation among the residents of Asterage and Valeria for some daring break-ins. Those he robbed tended to be miffed, especially the Valerian marks, but nobody ever said the lifestyle he had taken up wasn't dangerous. However, his last "urban dungeon crawl" garnered him more attention than he would have liked. Really, all he'd done was sneak into the estate of a miserly noble family,, break into the vault, and make off with a few valuable objects, among them a curious locked box. When he got word that not only was the noble family trying to get the box back, but that assassins from Valeria and strangers from Celestia were asking about the theft, Alerin decided that it was high time to take a vacation for his health and left Asterage behind.
Since then, he's wandered around the lands where civilization could be found, occasionally joining in on dungeon crawls into ruins that were all over. Eventually, he joins up with a traveling circus/fair after a close call with some Valerian agents, for safety and comfort. He's served as a sort of handyman and as an entertainer, using sleight-of-hand tricks as well as minor spells to entertain people as the circus travels around.
Miscellaneous: With as connected as he is with the underground, Alerin has heard the truth about the bounties Lord Morin has placed for the return of the Celestia heirs. He's even heard a few rumors about where a couple might be, though he's yet to seek them out. As for the locked box, it has so far resisted all of his attempts at opening it, a fact that serves to drive him crazy with curiosity with its contents. Of all the items he'd stolen from the miser family, this was the one everybody seemed to be seeking, and when he isn't making another attempt at opening it, he keeps it safely stored in one of the pockets in his belt where it can't be detected.
Whisper of Angels RP
AnCatDubh · Wed Feb 11, 2009 @ 10:26am · 0 Comments |
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