Step 1:
1) Corvis is a former slave to the house Delronge, one of the minor noble houses of Kintargo. He doesn't know much about his family, as he was an orphaned slave in the house. He grew up cleaning latrines and doing odd jobs for the Delronge family until his gift with animals was uncovered.
2) Corvis was an adroit handler of animals, especially birds. He learned to care for Delronge's cast of falcons and other birds, and kept them well fed and even learned the rudimentary animal training techniques. Corvis slept in the same room as the falcons, and is very comfortable with them.
3) Corvis met and became friends with a few different conspiracies of ravens, who received surruptitious food when he could sneak it to them.
4) Corvis was freed as a slave after helping the scion of the Delronge family catch a particularly rare and valuable silvered rabbit in the woods outside of kintargo.
5) Corvis has no other family, and lives on the roof of the Iudeimus Tenement building. He pays a nominal amount to squat, and cares for an conspiracy of friendly ravens as well as any other birds that come by. He is adept at training the birds to retrieve things for people that are otherwise hard to get, as well as training people's other birds to perform complex actions, and is able to make a very modest living as a bird wrangler.
6) Corvis is a tall halfling with black hair, brown eyes, and a light brown skin. He has a friendly mein about him, and cheerfully helps people that ask him for assistance, usually without asking for anything in return. He is usually smiling, and is dressed plainly with utilitarian clothing covered in pouches, buckles and animal-related tools. He wears heavy gloves most of the time.
Step 2:
1) He has noticed that his conspiracy has been dropping in population, and he now has only two friends that return to him with regularity, Melanie and Geoff. He heard that there was a reward for the death of ravens in the city now, which makes him terribly upset. He would like to keep ravens safe and prevent them from being killed, and find out why the silver ravens have disappeared (he likes ravens AND silver so he doesn't think that could be a coincidence). Corvis does not want to be captured again.
2) I'd like Corvis to advance as a ranger, possibly as an evangelist of Milani as well.
Step 3:
1) Corvis actually escaped from the Delronge family with the help of their secretly sympathetic youngest daughter, Annabelle. He always wears a different disguise each day, but has been unable to figure out a way to escape the city. He tries to stay as far from the estate as he can
Step 4:
1) Annabelle is years old and became best friends with Corvis while Corvis was enslaved. Annabelle and Corvis grew up together and Annabelle managed to shield Corvis from the wrath of the Delronge elders on more than one occasion. It isn't clear that she has been indicted for his escape, as he hasn't seen her since he left the estate.
2) Teldin is the cheap landlord from whom Corvis rents his poor-quality room. Teldin looks the other way at Corvis' love of ravens, due to Corvis' help in clearing out a number of pigeons that infested the flophouse's chimney.
3) Lord Delronge is searching for Corvis, though much less furiously than he had previously. When Corvis escaped, the Lord had many of the city's freeish halflings rounded up. It was only as a result of luck that Corvis wasn't caught immediately. Delronge hates Corvis for escaping, and wants to punish him as an example to his other slaves.
Step 5:
1) Corvis has picked up a number of mannerisms that many birds have, such as tilting his head when curious or thinking, a love of shiny things (especially silver), and speaking relatively quickly.
2) Corvis was mentally scarred as a result of his time as a slave, and if he fails at a task he doubles-down on the task until it is completed correctly.
Corvis would have gone to the protest for the "meeting a contact" reason, as he has been piecing together ways to get in touch with what might still be the silver ravens and managed to get a contact's information.
