If you'restill accepting, I'd like to throw my hat in.

[Hider=Don Volpe][b]Name:[/b] Bartalomeo

[b]Title:[/b] Don Volpe

[b]Age:[/b] 28

[b]Residence:[/b] A bookkeepers / orphanage in the docklands.

[b]Personality:[/b] Volpe is an early version of a socialist, believing in the betterment of mankind before all else. A factor of his personality is his patience, which allowed him to slowly bring the various criminal elements of Veranth together under him. To him, violence should almost always be a last resort, though those that cross him soon learn that there are many ways to kill a man without violence. He uses mystery and ignorance to his advantage, seeming to be a powerful magician who can kill any who cross him.

[b]History:[/b] There was once a young boy who started out on the bottom rung of life. He was an Orphan living in the dockyards of Veranth. Naturally a city with as much wealth as this also developed a criminal underbelly to match, and the young lad was swept up in it. As an errand boy for various criminals, the perceptive youth realised they had no real direction. Each small group was only after a minute slice of the city's wealth, most of which ended up in the pockets of the nobility and the church. This was something he would act over the course of his life to correct.

Using his near invisibility as being just another kid on the streets, he whispered in the ears of the influential leaders and bent them to his will. It was a slow process, taking years to complete, but by the time he was fifteen, a majority of the crime in the city, albeit unknowingly, worked for him. At this point he had begun employing his fellow urchins to act as his eyes, ears, and mouth. It was then that he began the second phase of his plan.

During this time, he had also taught himself how to read, and had stolen many books on both medicines... and poisons. Seemingly random criminals throughout the city started dying mysteriously, each bearing a fox tail on his corpse. A rumor began to circulate that these deaths were caused by Don Volpe, a Sorcerer who killed any criminal who didn't follow his rules. These rules were relatively simple, designed around maximising profits, lowering unnecessary notoriety, and empowering the commonfolk.

Naturally, once the rumours hit the town guard, Don Volpe was the most wanted man in Veranth. Unfortunately, no one had any idea what he looked like, only that fox tails were found on the corpses of those he was displeased with. Taking the name Bartalomeo, and with his orphans who were too old to be invisible, he opened a bookkeeping establishment in the dockyards. He also used this building to house and train his spies, to maintain his grip on the criminal underworld.

When the old duke was arrested, Don Volpe knew that now was the time to end the feudal system in Varenth, and return wealth to the people.

[b]Attributes:[/b]
Charisma- 2
Combat- 1
Fame- 1
Piety- 0

[b]Skills:[/b]
Grace- 0

Speech- 1

Literacy- 1

Trade- 1

Luck- 2

Dueling- 0

Strategy- 2

Leadership- 1
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