<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/1d/Tengu.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Shan Zuk (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=1094889) Male Tengu Rogue1/Monk3 (Martial Artist)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Physical Description</div><div class="spoiler_body">Like all Tengu, Shan Zuk appears like a bipedal man-sized crow, with lanky but well-toned limbs ending in talons. The black feathers covering his body appear unkempt, rarely finding time to groom them.  His one distinctive feature is a long diagonal scar which slashes where his right eye used to be, a critical injury he received from rival thieves who stormed his comrades’ hideout and decimated them.  <br/></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Personality</div><div class="spoiler_body">Shan Zuk tends to be soft-spoken, especially to those he is not familiar with, but is not afraid to speak up what is on his mind.  He also somewhat of a naiveté, dullard to a point - slow to react or grasp a concept - but is a quick learner.  This is compensated with his quick eye for things which has often saved the lives of his crew members.  Having lived most his life with his kind, Shan Zuk finds working or living with other races something new and exotic.  He has yet to learn and to enjoy what life has to offer him beyond his flock, and he has all the time in the world. <br/></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Background:</div><div class="spoiler_body"> <br/>As a youngling, Shan Zuk (which is translated to Claw-out-eyes) always wondered and asked this question to himself:  why their kind had lost the ability to fly? No one could give him a straight answer, telling him instead not to fuss on such trivial matters and focus more on the harsh realities they face on a daily basis.  For Shan Zuk’s flock are tengu: social misfits, and urban nomads who never stay in one place for long in fear of total persecution from the populace and the authorities.  They subsist on acts of thievery, and with the occasional derring-do crime that they come up with from time to time.<br/>One such heist involved a certain ship captain by the name of Arano Yuuki, who was said to have amassed a large collection of exotic treasures, near and far.  Some of the baubles he possesses are never heard of or seen the like of before.  If successful, their flock could live a life of luxury and security for a long time to come in obscurity - cementing themselves in a powerbase of their design, which they plan build from the loot they would gain. <br/> <br/>On the night of the raid, the tengu, along with the young Shan Zuk in tow, successfully infiltrated Arano Yuuki’s ship, where the treasures were said to be kept, neutralizing the guards and crew with little bloodshed involved, wishing to avoid murder among their crimes.  During his exploration of the vessel, Shan Zuk came upon a room where he thought he could find something of great value.  Instead he found Arano Yuuki, waiting for him in the shadows.  He asked the young tengu: what is it he desires the most?” Before Shan Zuk could even answer the question at that odd time, his fellow snatched him off the scene, but not before dropping a trinket of his – a wood carving of a bird with outstretched wings.<br/><br/>The operation was considered a relative success, garnering items they believed would fetch a high price when fenced.  But their celebration was short lived.  A rival thieves’ band, which had the same idea of robbing Arano Yuuki, followed them to their hidden lair.  Accompanied by a band of adventurers, the invaders made short work of the tengu.  Shan Zuk managed to escape barely with his life but not without being pursued by a couple of the thieves.   They managed to corner the young tengu in a dark alley, where they were sure to gut him for good had not Arano Yuuki come to the rescue. <br/>  <br/>Arano Yuuki took in Shan Zuk and nursed him back to health.  During the time of his recovery, the famed ship captain asked Shan Zuk the same question that was asked of him during their first fated meeting: what is it that he greatly desires?  The young tengu did not know what to answer.  Arano Yuuki told him to thick it carefully and handed him his wooden bird ornament he dropped.  Reflecting upon the trinket in his hands, he knew what he wanted, and eventually told Arano Yuuki what it was: To fly like a bird.  To soar high in the sky and be free, not just from the troubles and discriminations which have grounded him, but actually fly, and see new places, new adventures, from a new perspective.  Arano Yuuki was gladdened by this and introduced Shan Zuk to a new world.<br/><br/>Since then Shan Zuk has worked hard as a new potential member of Arano Yuuki’s multi-planar shipping consortium, learning the ropes in manning airships, and at the same time living part of the dream that he always wanted, to be in the skies.  Time passed on, and Shan Zuk gained a lot experience and adventure as a helmsman, but when news of Arano Yuuki death reached him, he was greatly saddened and at the same time his future in the late captain’s business empire was uncertain.  To his surprise and delight he was chosen to be one the few in Arano Yuuki last will and testament that will entitle them owning their very own airship, none other than Arano’s very first that started it all: The Yuuki!<br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong><br/>Airship role:</strong>Helmsman<br/><br/><strong>Ons and Offs</strong><br/><br/>Ons: not much for this character. Is pretty much open to what will be thrown at him. Though he seemed to have suddenly developed a fetish for bondage (both consensual and nonconsensual) foreplay - particularly when he is the one doing it to a recipient.<br/>Offs: Doing your business is just that, don’t bring into play. And although extreme violence is a reality, Shan Zuk would do his best not indulge or be in its receiving end.<br/><br/>