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Ayden Newport

Currency: 42 bits
Ammunition: 0
Status:

”You can tell an awful lot about a person by the way they write a letter.”


Gender: Male
Age: 25
Origin: A small fishing town on the southernmost tip of the continent 
Attire: Nondescript, very plain.The sort of bland clothes with muted colors that allow one to seamlessly blend into a crowd or the back of a room at a moment’s notice.  
Demeanor: Mischievous, Cocky, and Adventurous   

Flaws:
For The Fun Of It - He lacks professionalism at times and will often forsake higher paying jobs for those he deems to be more entertaining. Other times he might not take any paying jobs at all simply because he wouldn’t have time for the sort of impish fun he enjoys.
You Almost Had Me That Time! - Ayden is very skilled at his craft, nearly as good as he thinks he is. Nearly. He has a bad habit of taunting those he believes he's gotten the upper hand over and purposely almost letting them beat him only to (usually) come out on top at the last moment. He can't help himself sometimes and it's landed him in hot water on a number of occasions. 

Skill Set

Make It To Fake It [5] - Forgery. The art of counterfeiting a number of different things from letters to licenses, from seals to signatures and everything in between. Rolls when attempting to copy handwriting or wax seals, writing a fake letter and signing it with someone else’s signature, etc.
Smooth Talker [4] - Charisma. All the forgery in the Empire won’t help if the forger appears untrustworthy and “proper” paperwork is only half the con. Other times paperwork won’t work at all and every good crook has a fallback; he prefers words over blades. Rolls exactly when you think it would.
Careful Fingers, Sharp Ears [3] - Lock Picking. Forging a document often requires a copy of the target’s handwriting and acquiring these samples often necessitates a little Bn'E. Again, rolls exactly when you think it would.
Cloak and Dagger [3] - Stealth. Being able to pick a lock is all well and good, but ultimately useless if the one picking the locking isn’t discreet. Also saves him a great deal of money when he doesn't have to hire a burglar to do the job for him. Rolls to avoid or evade detection.
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Background:

Ayden was born to a boring family who lived in a boring house, with boring neighbors, in a boring town not worth naming and by Jove it was so damn boring. Everyone had such a hangup about “honest work” and “community values” and other nonsense of that sort. Ayden made his escape at the ripe old age of 13 by getting himself hired as a cabin boy aboard a pirate ship. Scurvy and lice aside, it was a wonderful three years but they eventually came to an end when he met a veteran forger by the name of Hugo Masterson at a port-side pub while the ship was docked. He was soon fascinated by Hugo’s tales of crafting whole identities with quill and parchment and how entire economic empires could be toppled in an afternoon with the right letter sent to the right person.

Hugo took Ayden on as an apprentice within the hour and set about teaching him valuable forgery skills such as how to read and write before moving on to more advanced techniques. Within six years, the cabin boy was now a grown man and a skilled forger to boot. Feeling confident in his skills, Ayden thanked Hugo for all his teachings before setting off on his own for Guillan. He would go on to make a living in the capital’s underbelly selling his talents to a wide range of clients from black market suppliers needing Very Really Real™ royal shipping licenses to fellow crooks who’d bitten off more than they could chew and needed a way to disappear or lay low. His most profitable ventures have him brush shoulders with Lord Vargas himself and his suppliers. A constant stream of contraband requires a constant stream of Very Really Real™ paperwork to keep such a large operation under the nose of the law. Ayden has become one of several regular forgers Vargas employs to cover the tracks of his operation. 

Personal Effects:



> Set of lock picking tools
> A small pack holding forger’s tools including multiple types and colors of ink, a magnifying glass, a number of uncarved wax stamps and blank signet rings with tools to carve them, sealing wax, a variety of parchment, quills, etc.
> Cheap dagger
> Commoner's clothes
> Coin pouch
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