Name: Sael son of none
Stats: Physical: 120
Intellect: 130
Charisma: 70
Wisdom: 100
Skills: I leave these up to your discretion
Rank: Assassin first class for the Corps. of the Silent Eye
Appearance: If one were to attempt to describe Sael, they would spend some great time pondering: What does he look like? Are his eyes blue? Or maybe brown... His hair was definitely dark. Or was it? Eventually they would all come up with the same description. Sael was the most ordinary looking man they could imagine. He seemed to blend in with every crowd, disappear whenever searched for, and Vanish whenever forgotten.
Sael is appears to be an average height, average build man. His eye and hair color seems to change based upon the light, however were one to see him in a pure neutral light, they would be able to see that his eyes are a dark grey, and his hair was of a type rarely seen on the heads of humans. While in general men have hair solidly of one color or another, Sael's head is coated with dozens of shades of different colors, each different from the last. While you would think this was a distinguishing feature, it generally proves to be just the opposite, it allows him to appear different in most any type of light. Sael's chest, back, arms and legs are coated with dozens, perhaps even hundreds of scars he has acquired through training; this would set him apart were it not for the fact that he is an active member of the military. In addition, he also has the insignia for the Corps. of the Silent Eye (A single eye sown shut) over his left shoulder blade.
By manner of dress, Sael typically wears long pants of washed brown, and a long shirt of charcoal grey beneath a grayish black cloak. His attire changes for missions based upon what is required to blend in with those surrounding him.
Background: Sael was orphaned at a young age, by soldiers in the Malinar army. On the day they arrived, Sael was only eight years old, and was busy playing with his four year old sister when they broke through the door. The soldiers that came through the door were not the drunken messes that Sael was used to seeing stumble into his home, hoping to find his mother and her services (Yes, it's exactly what is sounds like); these men had the calm, cool efficiency of a well oiled machine. They kicked down the door, and began to search the house for his mother. When they found her, they tied Sael, Adolene (His sister), and their mother together in the center of the hut, and began to light the various corners of the house on fire. When the house began to collapse do to the flames licking the walls, the men calmly left the house. As the house burned around them, his mother frantically tore at the rope binding the three of them, she managed to loosen Sael's bonds to the point that he could slide out of them. "Quickly, save your sister" his mother wheezed, as the coughed through the smoke enveloping them. Sael tried to free his sister, he tried to release her, he really did. He failed. As he was working on Adolene's restraints, one of the houses bearings came tumbling down and crushed her arms, trapping her in place as well catching her clothes on fire. Sael watched on in horror as his own sister burned to death in front of him; unable to do anything, Sael just watched, and then when there was no more of her to watch, he crawled through the burning debris, and left that place forever in his past. Sael may have survived that fire, but a part of him did not; part of Sael died that day, the same part that once made him human.
Sael's old home had been just on the outskirts of town, and so it was not a long walk into the city of Fahrren. With half of him dead and the other half mad, Sael collapsed into a gutter, and one could say it took him years to crawl out of it. His families deaths were not the last deaths Sael would see in his youth. The city of Fahrren is not forgiving to any living on its streets, to children even less so. Over the years Sael saw many children starve or die in the streets, and if he had not learned to kill or if he had had a weaker stomach, he would have been one of them as well. He killed dozens of other street rats over the years, sometimes for clothes, sometimes for bread, or beef, or sometimes even for another, less palatable type of meat when the others ran scarce. Over the years Sael grew less and less human, and more... Something else. He no longer felt guilt for the others he killed, now he blamed their own weakness, after all, in this world of cruelty only the strongest were fit to survive. Sael likely would have died on the streets were it not for the fact that he now lived for a purpose; Unbowed? Sael thought to himself They will bow some day, and when they do I will be standing above them, swinging an ax down to sever their heads.
When Sael was twelve years old, he decided to enlist himself in the military. He would never be able to slay the royals if he couldn't even fight. When he enlisted, he was sent to the general training facility. He spent one year their Before he caught the eye of Mabuz Septis, the head of the Corps. of the Silent Eye. Mabuz was doing a general sweep for potential Acolytes of the Eye, when he stumbled upon Sael. It is not often that you see eyes as cold and dead as the ones Mabuz saw that day, and never before had he seen them on one so young, and frankly... Sane. Mabuz immediately took Sael under his wing.
Over the next three years Sael was trained in the secret arts taught by the Eye. He took to this training with more vigor than anyone Mabuz had ever seen, and had utterly mastered all techniques save one within a week of being shown. He continued to train until he was deemed ready to preform his first solo mission at the tender age of sixteen (Trainees usually are not issued solo missions until after five or more years of training). His first mission went off without a hitch, the only issue anybody could take with Sael's performance was that Sael killed more than just his target, he killed everybody on the same floor as his targets living quarters; all eighteen of them. Sael was not given enough information to successfully complete his mission as originally intended (He was not told which room his target was in), and so Sael instead of leaving to regroup, slipped from one room to another, killing their occupants one by one. Over the next five years Sael completed numerous dangerous missions with absolute precision, until he was a legend within the Eye, and was finally promoted to assassin first class. Sael was given more than one title however, in addition to Assassin first class, Sael also became known by another, slightly darker name, Rhubaiyat The Demon.
While most others make friends as they advance through the ranks, this was not the same in Sael's case. Something about his presence set people slightly... Off... It was hard to spend a prolonged period of time with him without shivering, and even those who could do so resented Sael for his quick climb up the ladder. In eight short years Sael had climbed to the third highest rank within the Eye, second only to the Silent Counsel, and Mabuz himself.
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