<div class="floatright">(http://img15.deviantart.net/d6cc/i/2015/088/a/9/character_elf_monk_by_lsdrake-d8nnttr.jpg)</div>Character sheet (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1253473)<br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Peren<br/><strong>Class:</strong>Monk/Way of Shadows<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Half-Elf<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>It's not easy being born between elf and human societies. Peren had to deal with a lot of bullying growing up, about his pointy ears and his absent father and his mother's lack of virtue. To the boy's credit he didn't run away from his tormentors -- no matter how much bigger they were he confronted them head on, with his bare fists if that was all he had. It lead to him getting beat up pretty often, but it also taught him how to fight. It also taught him how to sneak away, follow someone, and ambush them later on; more than a few young urchins thought they had gotten the better of the half-breed only to have a cobblestone strike them from behind.<br/><br/>As he grew, Peren's notoriety grew in the circles that care about stealth and cruelty. He began working as a hired thug for different criminal outfits, and occasionally as a burglar or look-out. Growing up poor gave him a good instinct for lying and tricking city guard, and the coin he brought home as a thug was better than anything he could make legally. It helped keep his mother in something approaching comfort, until the year plague swept through the poor quarter and she came down with that terrible bloody cough. Peren wiped out his savings and burned every bridge trying to find a cure to no avail; his mother died and was buried in a mass grave with a dozen other plague victims.<br/><br/>Alone in the world Peren lashed out at anyone and everyone. He became bloodier and more cruel, often going out of his way to get into fights or killing where he could have simply disabled. News got out that he was a loose cannon and jobs dried up; that just made him more desperate and made him look farther and farther afield for a patron.