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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cypherblade" data-source="post: 9553419" data-attributes="member: 7048389">Still 3 months to go before the start of the campaign, but I'm excited because I received the first background of my soon to be players. I'm going to tie in the 2 orphans to the Orphanage 'Gallo's School for boys (and girls) ' Not sure yet what I'm going to do with Retired Inspector Luther Ashcroft, nor with the fact that Kane is already working for the RHC for 27 yeasr now....Kane (pronounce as Caine) Kelrin was originally from good stock. His father Haldar was a fairly successful merchant who was able to support his wife and child well, until one day he disappeared at sea and did not return to Flint. Kane was six years old at the time. His mother did her best to stretch resources, but time after time the little family had to lower its standards. So they went from the large mansion where they lived to a modest row house and from there to a small apartment in the rougher Harbor neighborhood. Mom initially took care of Kane's upbringing herself, something that came easily to her as an educated lady, by the way. But in time, circumstances forced her to look for work elsewhere, and so she joined a businessman who had once been a friend of the house. Kane, twelve years old by now, was often left to his own devices from then on and consequently spent most of his time hanging out on the streets with other boys of questionable character.When Kane was fourteen, he began to suffer more and more from nightmares. Eventually it turned out that the scary dream images he was seeing were not happening to him during sleep, but during his waking moments at night. In fact, Kane had the ability to see the dead. Fearful of the ghosts that appeared to him at night, Kane developed nyctophobia, fear of the dark.  He dared not go to sleep anymore and had to have lights and amulets around his bed all the time, or he became terrified of the ghosts that came sighing in his ears.Kane's ability to contact the deceased, however, became his salvation. Thirty years ago, when the Royal Homeland Constabulary, the RHC, was formed, Kane came into contact with one of its detectives, a certain Luther Ashcroft, who was investigating the mysterious disappearance of a spy in the harbor district. As a street kid, Kane was able to play the inspector's eyes and ears in places where the man himself had difficulty getting in. However, his real talent revealed itself only when he discovered the spy's corpse and was able to communicate with his ghost. The information he learned in the process was enough for Inspector Ashcroft to solve the case.Ashcroft made Kane his regular informant and death whisperer, and when the boy turned eighteen, the inspector inducted him into the ranks of the RHC. Kane has now been with the RHC for twenty-seven years. His fear of the dark never went away, and the obsession with light it gave him led him to begin worshipping light. That devotion has even given him priestly powers, without being able to pin a specific deity on it. Kane also retains his ability to speak with the dead, but his horror for ghosts has still not gone away, so this ability invariably overwhelms him with oppression. At the same time, this uncanny power makes him an outsider in the RHC, where some consider him a freak.Contacts: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Luther Ashcroft is inspector at rest and my mentor.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mom is a maid with a wealthy family, her name is Esther, but everyone calls her Tess.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Karsten and Lottie are two street thugs who serve as minor informants.</li> </ul>    - Karsten is a crafty pickpocket with a smooth tongue.    - Lottie looks innocent, excels at not standing out, she has sharp senses.</blockquote>

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