[b]Name:[/b] Ade Marconi

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Age:[/b] 24

[b]Physical Appearance:[/b] Having come from the South of Leyland, travelling up North, he neglected to think about the fact that it would be cold the further north he went. As a result, he never packed a coat, so he spends most of his time when not travelling inside an inn by the fire. [img]http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img742/2945/Btm848.png[/img]

[b]Biography:[/b] In order to fully understand Ade's situation, his parents must be taken into account. His mother was a serf's daughter, living in the most southern reaches of Leyland. His father worked for a powerful landowner who went by the name of Narciso Mazza. Mr. Mazza had recently bought himself a nice plot of land to further expand his agricultural prowess, and was aiming to grow an orange and lemon orchard there. However, he lacked the sufficient number of serfs to attend to his new orchard, and so sent an order for 30 slaves to be brought in from one of the Southern lands. One of these men was called Chika Osei, and soon enough Ade's mother bumped into Chika. They soon became fast friends. To make a long story short, they eloped from Mazza's land, and settled in a small fishing town 30 odd kilometers away. There, they set up an inn that specialized in seafood. 

Anyway, back to Ade. He was brought up in the inn, and therefore learnt how to cook all kinds of food, but also gained essential people skills. By the time Ade was 16, he was so comfortable around total strangers, and able to strike up conversation so easily that they started to call him 'Golden Tongue' in the village. He sometimes gives this name out to strangers when he wants his identity to remain secret. When he turned 19, his parents started to suffer mysterious but definitely malicious attacks on their ships that supplied their deep-sea fish. Their business began to fail, and by the time Ade was 21 their position had become so critical that his family had lost their home, possessions, savings, and were keeping the shop only by the charity of their landlord. 

Ade had learnt, from a few mutterings here and there, that one of the many lordless serfs living along the coastline had miraculously received a donation of a hefty sum of money from an anonymous source, and quickly set up a mercenary and merchant business. This lawless man had been targeting the most successful businesses all along the coast, and there were even some rumours that similar men had been picked up from the gutter and were targeting important businesses all across Leyland. It was all very suspicious. 
So Ade's parents, wishing to get to the bottom of the case, sent their eldest son away from home to find out who was paying these homeless men to start attacking businesses all across Leyland. His journey took him up north, in an inn near Horunsbury, and where the current story begins. 

[b]Skills:[/b] Ade's main skill is talking. He finds it very easily to socialise, even with strangers, and from years of dealing with inquisitive housewives asking where their drunken husbands where (when they were blatantly across the street with some other housewife) he has learnt to guard his own information and lie shamelessly. 
In terms of physical skills, he never had much use for weapons but is pretty handy with a knife. For larger weapons, his favourite is a spear, having had much practice lancing fish when he was younger. 
Also, he can sail and row boats!

[b]Personality:[/b] Ade is pretty simple minded, and a big joker. He was never educated, and so is illiterate, but his command of language is very good. He doesn't have a broad imagination, and thinks of things as going from A to B, instead of calculating the myriad of consequences any given situation could produce. Although he left home at 21, his parents were always quite protective of him, and he had never left the South before. As a result, being around the paler Northern people, with their strange accents and thick, furred clothes, Ade often feels out of place, and a little scared. That's the reason why he always sticks to inns, because they remind him in some way of home.