Joey's Musings

Tolman Greenleaf, a Halfling who grew up with his mother a bar wench and sometimes with his father, a thief from the Lime Knees Thieves guild. Both parents were killed by the Lime Knee guild when he was 11 years old. He managed to run get away a seek refuge of the territory of one of the Roaring Boys guild. He vowed revenge on the murder of his parents and taught himself to be a cold blooded killer. To date he still does not know who ordered the death of his parents or why. By day he is a herbalist and alchemist. By night he is an assassin used by the Roaring Boys. He uses his connections and time to find those who ordered the death of his parents.

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Pepper Ann seems to be a mere seamstress. But she was taught how to love and commune with nature by her mother who was known as Ailbe the Guide. A Druid of the Central Circle. She met her husband, a simple and older tailor who got lost and injured in the woods to the east of Tornstin. Ailbe died when Pepper Ann was only 14 years old. The only thing she has from her mother is a sickle. Through her whole Pepper Ann has lived very poorly. She believes the near state of poverty that she and her family is always lived in is her father’s fault. She also resents him because she feels he is keeping her trapped in Tornstin when she wants to go and travel through nature. She has thought about killing him numerous times but then she is reminded that if nothing else, her mother loved him very much. He is now 70 and very ill. She is just bidding her time, waiting for him to die before she can leave. Till then she acts as an assassin for the Rough Boys. Killing targets using her Druidic abilities to maim them and hoarding money and possessions to satisfy her need for material things which she never had in her youth.

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Mirek Lydyss was the son of a high priced prostitute. When he was 5 his mother died of a disease associated with her line of work and he was tossed out onto the street by the madam of the brothel. He spent two years living by his wits and generosity of others until he caught the attention of a man named Dash. Dash had a small crew in the Roaring Boys and used young boys to sneak into places through cracks and small windows where no other thieve could get through. He taugh Mirek what he knew, but Mirek was a Klutz and not very good at stealth, picking locks or most of the other skills associated with the trade. But Mirek had one useful skill. He had a silver tounge. He could read a mark like nobody else. Whether it was serving as a distraction or a simply talking one out of their money was very successful. When Mirek was 12 Dash and he planned on robbing a merchant. But when they attempted to do so the merchant, Sidanis, performed magic that neither had ever seen before. He stopped them with just the power of his mind. He allowed Dash to leave but kept Mirek. Sidanis took Mirek in and taught him about the powers of the mind. Mirek continued to run with Dash as well as other in the Roaring Boys, but Sidanis warned Mirek that he was never to draw attention to himself or towards Sidanis. Sidanis and Mirek even had a secret language which only they could understand. To others it sounded merely like a snake hissing. When Mirek turned 15 he returned home and found the place emptied out except for a letter addressed to him.

“I’ve taught you enough for you to figure out the rest on your own. Someday I may ask you to repay the favor. I’ve gone home to deal with family matters. There may be some men looking for me, I don’t suggest staying here.”

Mirek left and went back to the life of a grafter working with the Roaring Boys.

Unlike his 2 associates Tolman and Pepper he does not like to kill. He will in self defense if he must, but he prefers not to kill. He will violate the minds of others, but always tries to avoid killing because killing is too messy.