Synot Rith (or Syn as he's known on the street) is a young man with a curious look in his eyes. While he once had piercing blue eyes, one is slightly discolored and red from bully nearly putting out his eye when he was younger. His hair is deep black, cut unevenly, and hanging about his face to his chin, though he keeps the front pulled into a ponytail at the top of his head. He is wiry, and light of skin. As a symbol his loyalty to the gang of urchins he runs with The Copperheads, he wears a copper ring in the middle of his lower lip.
Background:
As a young child, Synot lived a life of privilege. His father was a diplomat, and his mother of good standing in the House Cannith. Even though he never manifested a dragonmark, he was encouraged to join his mother's trade and work as an inventor, but his attitudes seemed to sway more towards biology. He was interested in the way things worked, but the lifeless things that others worked on quickly bored him. He read all he could on animals and anatomy, absorbing all he could.
While his mother was an intellectual, his father was a people person. He enjoyed the challenges of conversation, and working out interpersonal conflicts. He travelled all around, and was begining to be well known for his skills.
One day, however, Synot returned for playing with some of his friends after lectures, and he discovered his parents brutally killed. Panicked and not sure if the killer was still there, he fled. The only items with him were his precious texts. He has been on the street since then, having learned to adapt to a more modest life, and has found that he feels safer there. His former life all but gone, he has only held on to his interest in biology, often pick-pocketing only to spend the money on a new book. For the last few years he has been running with a gang of urchins like himself, The Copperheads, although their numbers seem to be mysteriously dwindling over the last month.
