Fascinating, Xan, fascinating.<br/><br/>I will say this initially, because I cant quite get my entire character on paper just yet.  I will have started in a formal and very rich well to do school.  One that stands alone from the more recognized schools.  One that is focused on lawful ways of being evil in the utulity of the arcane.  But even this school is too much for my character.  You see, he has found a tome in the schools library.  It is very old and nearly unreadable due to its state of wear.  Or is it in perfect condition yet it seems otherwise?  The more and more my character reads it and pours into it, the more he can make out from its pages.  He is wary.  He knows items can be sentient, and this tome is no different.  It haunts his every thought, asleep or awake.  He is always checking behind himself, or looking dartingly this way or that as if he is being watched.  Only when he has the tome in his actual possession does he seem a bit more confidant, more sure of himself.<br/><br/>He steals the tome and flees the school.  He does so because the tome told him to.  Yet, he cant tell anyone that because he knows that they all will think him crazy.  He is just learned enough in arcane to be able to appreciate the tome with which he fled.  The tome is not a spell book as per say, yet it is the nearly insane ramblings of another former mage of the very same school that he left.  He hints at shadow as if it is a living entity.  He talks of his relationship to it.  His service, his care, his devotion...  My character really only read it at first because it intrigued him.  But he felt an immediate connection with it.  He had always been more at home in the covers of darkness and had never known why.<br/><br/>Okay, thats my initial thoughts on that.  Xan, how would your character fit into something like that?  I would say my character went to this school very young and left at about 18 or so.  He is now in his mid 30s.<br/><br/>Malina, aweseomesauce.  I will meet up with an organization or three via you.  I will have sort of a flier of my abilities and how I wish to use them with accordance to you and your colleagues needs.  Be it my character walks along and uses his abilities to help out or be it they simply need some magical aid and spells placed upon them.  I figure my character will make something very specific and unique to carry spell energy, like a scroll, but not a scroll.  Something anyone can use with the right key word.  These he will sell to those that have the coin or are in need.