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Vladamir's father was the Chelaxian spymaster. His job was to make sure that relations between neighboring kingdoms were stable, and to make sure the Cheliax's people were stable.
He did this by Planting cleverly crafted rumors to make the population believe whatever Cheliax's Rulers wanted the people to believe.
Vladimir's mother was an actress who worked in all the major productions. She was most famous for her role in the play, "Blood of the Night Mother".
His mother was also secretly in a cult that worshiped a powerful demon lord, the worship of demons is strictly against the law in the devil worshiping Cheliax.

While Vladamir's mother was pregnant with him, his mothers cult leader had her and a few other women from the cult drink the blood of a powerful demon. Vlad's mother was the only survivor, but not without a cost... She became an unholy monstrosity. Vlad's father started to investigate his wife's absence. In a few weeks time he discovered his wife's cult. He decided for his wife's sake that he would not alert the authorities but deal with it himself. Vlad's father being the master spy he is, used his skills to infiltrate the cult, and to his horror, discover that the cult is worshiping the half-demon that is his wife. So Vlad's father devised a way to gain the trust of the cult, kill the monster that was his wife, and still have his son. So for the next 5 months Vlad's father waited, and gained the trust of the cult who was awaiting the birth of their prophet. It was time to act, Vlad's father revealed his presence to his former wife, telling her that he was a believer. She believed his story and made him her favored servant. On the day Vlad's mother was to give birth, his father injected her with liquid cold iron, killing her, and cut
Vlad from her womb. The authorities were alerted of the cults presence, and immediately set out to destroy it.

Vlad's spy training began on his seventh birthday. His father wanted to train Vlad how his father taught him, the hard way.
When Vlad was fifteen years old his father gave him the tasks of finding out the current territory of the gangs in Cheliax's capital city, to infiltrate one of the gangs, and kill that gangs leader.
He was not to return until all the tasks are complete. Vlad's father didn't give him any other info besides that.
Vladimir, distraught, tried to first discover who were the major gangs. This wasn't very difficult as gang activity was at an all time high, and it was the only thing people seemed to talk about.
The gangs are, The Night's Razors, The Moaning Winds, and The Devil Blood Clan. With that out of the way, next was to find out who the gang's leaders were. This would be a bit trickier, but Vlad had several people around the city who could tell him, for a price.

So Vlad met with his friend Pierre Du Bretagne at a tavern in the South-side of the city. Pierre told Vlad in a voice, "I don't know much, all know is that the Razors stick to the South, the Winds stay up North-East, and the Bloods got the west. Also, the leader of the Razors name is simply The Cutter."
With this new information Vlad decided that he would infiltrate the Razors and kill The Cutter. It wasn't difficult contacting the gang, as the gang seemed to be seeking out the young and poor.
Disguised as a child beggar, it wasn't long before he was contacted by one of the gangs recruiters. Vlad was told by that he would be given 20 gold pieces if he brought him the hand of a Winds gang member. Troubled by this, Vlad decided to just simply set a trap in an alley for the gangster reasoning that this man was a criminal and probably deserved it. So Vlad tracked a Winds pesh dealer to his alley. Taking the chance Vlad sneaked up behind him and stabbed him to death.

The recruiter seemed pleased when Vlad told him that this was the hand of a Winds pesh dealer. Now having successively infiltrated the gang, Vlad moved on to phase three, kill the leader.
Vlad advanced fast in the gang due to his formal training in the art of the sword, and his training as a spy. Vlad was contacted by one of his fathers informants, he told Vlad, "Your father told me to tell you, that he is pleased and thought you might need these."
He was given two short swords and piece of paper that gave the names and whereabouts of the members of John Cutter's inner circle.

With this new info Vlad quickly contacted Malvernus Andros,
who was one the members in the inner-circle. Vlad inquired that he wished to work for him and that he would do anything. Malvernus struck a deal, if Vlad was to kill this private-investigator that has been troubling him, he would give Vladamir a position as his assassin. Killing this man would take a few days, it is one thing to kill a petty gang member and another thing to kill a respected private-investigator. He tracked the investigator to his workplace and back to his house. Everyday on his commute He would stop at he same place and get some tea.
It was hear that the killing would take place. That morning during his tea, the investigator died from poisoned tea. Now just a position away from being in John Cutter's inner-circle,
all Vladamir had to do was to replace Malvernus with himself. But first he had to become Malvernus' most trusted man.

For the next month Vlad did everything Malvernus asked of him, working his way to becoming his right-hand. One day, Malvernus told Vlad, "It is time to test if you are truly to be trusted. You are to kill the captain of the guard." He gave Vlad a vile of black liquid. "Apply this to a weapon and he will die." Troubled, Vladamir contacted his father. His father responded with a letter saying, "In this line of work you will have to do many dark things to achieve the greater good." The letter didn't help Vlad's conscious very much, but it did help Vlad make a decision if he was to kill the guard or not.

After a week of planning Vlad knew everything there was to know about the captain, Titus Malkar. Vlad knew that every other day he would water his plants on his balcony. Vlad knew that the captain was a patron of the arts. At the end of every week Titus would go see a play. Vlad knew that from 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m, Titus would be alone in his office, going over paperwork.
Vlad knew that in the evening Titus would practice his swordsmanship, he was very skilled. Vlad also knew that there is no chance of beating Titus in a straight up fight, even with the black poison. Vladamir decided that he would take Titus down during the play.
In the evening during the play, "Blood of the Night Mother" Vladamir was disguised as one of the actors in the play. The reason Vlad decided to act was because he knew this play particularly well, because him and his father would go and see the play twice a year. During the mid-play break Vlad approached Titus in the stands, Vladamir told Titus that we appreciate his continued attendance. Vlad then told Titus that he would like to give him a gift. So Vlad reached into his cloak and pulled out a knife, jamming it into Titus' throat.

Now Malvernus' right hand, Vlad poisoned him with the black poison. His cause of death was determined to be a poison handling accident. Vlad was invited to the inner circle in the following weeks after Malvernus' death. So the moment is about arrive as Vladamir does the secret knock in a generic door in a generic ally. Vlad is greeted by a masked man. The man hands Vlad a robe and mask. Once Vlad is in the inner chamber he is greeted by eleven other masked men and women. They tell Vlad to take a seat, and that master Cutter is soon to arrive.
A man walks in, he is wearing a golden mask that is scratched and is adorned blood stains, and a black cloak.

"Welcome brothers and sisters" says Cutter. "Today we are to discus the increasing threat of the Devil Blood Clan. They continue to take territory from us, that needs to stop."
"I would also like to address our new member, Vladamir" Cutter then goes on to planning with the other members a strategy to take down the Devil Blood Clan. He then goes on to explain Vlad's position in the inner-circle as the, "Dealer of Death". After about an hour it is time to leave. It is now time to learn the Cutters schedule. After the meeting Vladamir starts tracking The Cutter. Vlad tracks the cutter to an abandoned house. For the next few meetings, Vlad tracks The Cutter to the same house, every time. So Vlad knew he had only had one option, to enter the house.
Inside the house was extremely dark, but Vlad was able to see enough. The housed seemed totally empty, but upon entrance to the basement Vlad noticed a stone door.
Within this door Vlad saw The Cutter, unmasked. sleeping on a stone slab surrounded by mutilated corpses. Upon closer inception all the bodies had two holes in their necks. Vlad stood over the resting vampire. poisoned dagger in hand, he stabbed the Cutter in the heart, killing him. Or so he thought... The Cutter screamed and began to savagely maul Vladimir, tearing apart his arms and face. Vlad regained his bearings and threw his tainted blade into the vampire, stunning it. With the other blade he took down The Cutter for good.

Days later at Vlad's father's office, Vlad's father told him, "You training is complete son. You have done what I have done, and what my father, and my father's father has done. Now you will take my place on your twenty-fifth birthday. Now as is the tradition of the initiate spymaster, you will leave Cheliax and live the life of adventure. Now the reason you must leave, is that to be an effective spy you must experience the many different cultures of this land." So Vlad stayed for a few more days, gathering equipment and supplies. On the last day he told his father goodbye, and left. Hearing about an expedition into the stolen lands, Vlad thought thought that sounded like the perfect place to start his life of adventure.

Vladimir Fominich
Male CN Human Rogue/Charlatan, Level 1, Init +4, HP 10/10, Speed 30
AC 16, Touch 14, Flat-footed 12, Fort +1, Ref +6, Will -1, Base Attack Bonus 0
shortsword +4 (1d6 + 1, 19/20 x2)
shortsword x 2 +2/+2 (1d6+1/1d6, 19/20 x2)
shortbow (20 arrows) +4 (1d6, x3)
leather armour (+2 Armor, +4 Dex)
Abilities Str 12, Dex 18, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 9, Cha 14
Condition None