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Name: Fox
Age: 21
Race: Human
Class: Ninja
Alignment: True Neutral
Campaign Trait: Ghost Sight + 2 Perception Undead
Secondary Trait: Chance Savior +2 Init

Male TN Ninja, Level 1, Init +6, HP 8/8, Speed 30 ft AC 16, Touch 14, Flat-footed 12, Fort +2, Ref +6, Will -1, Base Attack Bonus 0
Abilities Str 12, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 1o, Wis 8, Cha 14
Conditions None
Character Sheet
"The board is a mirror of the mind of the players as the moments pass. When an adept studies the record of a game he can tell at what point greed overtook the opponent, when he became tired, when he fell into stupidity, and when he left to fetch tea."
- Fox speaking about Go

Appearance

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Height: 5'9"
Weight: 170 lbs
Hair Color: Black
Skin Color: Pale
Eye Color: Brown

This shadow is a calm faced man with pale skin and short black hair. His features are sharp and angular without marking except for a slight burn near the eye sockets. His body is hard, lithe and lined with muscle like a coil. There are no tattoos to speak of other then an array of scars tracing over the torso. Upon meeting Fox for the first time, one could say his body language was fierce yet almost subdued as a cloak of mist. He is highly agile, flexible and moves with the body language of an animal more then that of man.
Covered in an eclipse of color, Fox's fitting cotton and leathers are bound by rope, pouches and strips of cloth. His twin sword scabbards are fastened across the right shoulder and obfuscated by use of cloth and removal of the hilts. They could also be covered by use of an umbrella handle or other such non-threatening concealment. His calves and wrists are guarded by light angular vanbraces and greaves, while the intricate symmetrical chest piece is largely hidden by darkly pressed cloth.


Personality
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Fox is a young man who holds within himself the sharp presence of immediacy. There is a swift emotional tempo pressed deep below the precise calculation of the surface. He walks a fine line between utter calm in the face of adversity to volatility when necessary. His can be slyly light in spirits and accommodating until there is business to confront; from which he becomes direct and forthcoming if seen at all.
His penchant for acting and disguise alleviates the need for extreme eccentricity within his natural character. The personal spectrum of emotional needs have been met through the channels of guile, deception and mimicry.
This verbose palette gives the human the ability to be extremely selective in his range and particularities when dealing and interacting with all those around him.

Background
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Born to a Sczarni family of gypsies, Fox's birth name was Lucius Rye. The clan traveled from Ustalav province to province, leaving one plagued Soivodaby or Palatinate to another with greater stability or opportunity. Serviced with little love by their fellow countrymen, the Sczarni naturally learned to live through opportunity and by their wits or guile.
As Lucius grew older he became deeply taken with a woman from Lozeri. It was not easy to leave behind his family, but the reputation of their bloodline was less difficult to let go of.
Working the dangerous farmland with his lover for three years, Rye grew a greater understanding of the capricious nature of the nobility and the labourous pleasures of his own profession. Coming home from the fields one evening, he returned to their cottage to find his wife Samanthya murdered by what appeared to be the jaws of some savage beast, but when an autopsy was performed by a local priest it was revealed she died from strangulation prior to the goring. He was heartbroken, vowing to hunt down the true murderer and avenge his lover's senseless death.

Combining both the skills and tools of the common farmer with that of an honorless gypsy, the man known as Lucius burned his old life, giving himself the title Fox. He became an assassin reputed for taking contracts of intrigue, with a quiet agenda of tracking information about the gruesome murder at that cottage. His vengeance was short lived however as upon rescuing a stranded traveler by the name of Lorrimer one night, the final outlaw he silenced covered Fox's sight in acid, burning away the greater part of his vision. Now day by day even the shadows of sight lessen into darkness as Fox Rye marks such irony by walking blindly to the funeral of the man he saved that ominous night.


Roleplaying Sample
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Wrapped in the burlap cloak of a mourner, a shadow flickers into the light. It taps a cherry wood cane and grasps the air towards the bereaved. Under a silhouette of sepia stands a sharply cut human, his eyes close while both hands warm the widow's own.

"I will bear the casket if you would but lead me to it's furthest corner." This new voice sounds hollow; young but echoing from below unseen depths, as if confidence when surfaces reveals new frailty. The musk of incense and the sensation of his quiet retreating grasp enters comfort zones like a splinter. This man sniffs to inhale the value of perfume then wipes his nose, wandering candidly under the hood of the garment. Something does not seem right, for his weakness is nearly imperceptibly uncomfortable. Perhaps he is lying. Perhaps his faults reflects onto the viewer's own. It doesn't matter.
The figure grasps the rear of the wooden box. "Thank-you...." Every ounce of air around him tastes stale like dust mixed with ash, yet as he wets his palette it triggers the twin effect in the nearest onlooker.


Personal Information
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Strengths:
- Stealth, subtlety, expedience; utilizing both charisma and dexterity.
- Wide breadth of skills, both long and short range.
- Skilled in subterfuge, disguise, parley, lock-breaking and trap avoidance.
- Able to act and scout through unorthodox means and abilities.

Weaknesses:
- Does not take truth at face value.
- Provides little physical healing, besides magical devices.
- Does not always give away his real emotional responses or opinion.
- Has no moral qualm killing if necessary.

Fears:
- Fire. To be entrapt while being burned alive.

Likes:
- Sharp and expedient weaponry.
- Riddles. Especially the unanswerable ones.
- The dichotomy of simplicity and complexity in nature and technology.
- Quality food ingredients and preparation.

Dislikes:
- Dependency.
- Self absorption.
- Needless destruction.
- Chickens.