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[b][color=82ca9d]Name:[/color][/b] Korumaj-Salai (nicknamed "Dog-Ears" because of his head fins)

[b][color=82ca9d]Origin:[/color][/b] "The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion"

[b][color=82ca9d]Age:[/color][/b] Probably approx. late 20s

[b][color=82ca9d]Sex:[/color][/b] Male

[b][color=82ca9d]Occupation:[/color][/b] A Shadowscale assassin; later, an informal page and bodyguard to possible hero Siskin Carduelis. 

[b][color=82ca9d]Race:[/color][/b] Argonian 

[b][color=82ca9d]Physical description:[/color][/b] Imposing and pointy. Intentionally casual in his movements, though his grace is undeniable. 

[b][color=82ca9d]Personality:[/color][/b] Very professional on a job; takes his work very seriously.

Surprisingly jovial and easygoing underneath his Shadowscale training. His personality is kind of like a guy who has accepted that he's dreaming and has decided to make the most of the weird circumstances he finds himself in. This aspect of his personality does not, however, interfere with his savviness and awareness of reality. He has no illusions about the nature of man and will allow no trespass upon his person or tolerance. Except, of course, for those made by his companion Siskin. Godpuppets get a pass.

[b][color=82ca9d]Background/Info:[/color][/b] Like all Shadowscales, Korumaj-Salai was born (hatched?) under the sign of The Shadow and thereafter given over to the Dark Brotherhood for assassin training. As Argonian society is based around family-like village units and solidarity, his isolation from his people made him an outsider. The name he was given when he came of age indicates their distrust for him, translating roughly to "one who keeps his own council/he who keeps secrets" - a trait which, though necessary for an assassin, makes integrating with his village all but impossible.

Korumaj-Salai took to his training like a duck to water and as an assassin is more than proficient. He has an understanding of the way people work which serves him well but which leaves him with low expectations of others. Part of his good humor comes from viewing himself subconsciously as something like an adult among children - as though the actions of those less competent than himself are merely amusing antics to he humored and waved off. 

Korumaj-Salai, though very good at his job, had come to find that he was getting no satisfaction from it. But you can't just quit being an assassin for no reason; it's not done, and more than that, it's a dangerous endeavor. You know too much. So, in order to acquire some plausable deniability, he gets himself caught and thrown in jail.

Unfortunately, his carefully-confessed-to crime is such that the jail he gets thrown into is a little bigger than he had hoped it would be, and his sentence a little more final - people don't come out of the Imperial prison after a short and pleasant stay.

Due to a twist of fate, the cell he is assigned to already has an occupant - an unconscious Imperial girl with brightly-colored hair. Then fate twists a bit further, and King Uriel Septim breezes in, pardons his crime, rambles about the girl on the floor, and leaves through the wall. Korumaj-Salai is not one to look a gift horse in the mouth and promptly uses this new escape route. Then the girl catches up to him partway through the maze and he's got a tagalong.

Things seem a little weird with the girl, though. A little too purposeful - a little too unlikely. He thinks on what the King said about her, and he comes to think he can almost see her future - the big things she's destined to do, because the gods are clearly messing with something here. And he thinks, what an amazing opportunity - you can't get pulled back into the job you wanted to quit if you've got another engagement. Maybe it's safer to stick with someone who's supernaturally death-proof, in spite of the dangers she can't seem to avoid. So he becomes HER tagalong. And the rest, I'm hoping, will be a very fun history to explore, indeed.