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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 4906716" data-attributes="member: 4275">Here's a taste of the upcoming Canterbury Isles, which takes a look at two western isles nominally part of the Kingdom of Damask.AkirinossThe Akirinoss are an ancient organization of elven assassins that have existed for thousands of years. Unlike most assassins, they do not work for money, instead identifying threats to elvenkind and marking them for death. However, they do not involve themselves in situations of their own free will. Due to an ancient, arcane and Byzantine code of honor, they will only become involved in a situation if they are asked. Then, if they determine the situation warrants their particular talents, the organization acts with ruthless efficiency. This particular group is in Bondaea to kill Duke Zelan, who has clearly become a pawn of the racist Order of the White. What they do not know is that they were asked to do this by a member of that very order: Eleanor Whistler. MaliaMalia married an elven noble in her youth and lived an idyllic life for hundreds of years. She felt extremely lucky to have married such a handsome, dashing young noble and her only source of worry was that his work as an ambassador took him away from their beloved forest home too often, for too long. Then came the terrible day when he was brought to her, dying. He was grievously wounded and with his last words told her that he wasn’t an ambassador: he was Akirinoss. Then he slipped his ring off and she saw he was neither handsome nor dashing. He was extremely ugly, with beady eyes, a hooked nose and a face scarred by combat. Though she still loved her husband, the realization that she never really knew him, that he was able to lie with perfect precision every moment they were together, ended any innocence Malia had ever had. Appearing before the Akirinoss elder, she demanded her widow’s right: to claim his place in their society. Having learned first hand the power of deception, Malia uses that as her greatest weapon. She will use her beauty (enhanced even more by her husband’s ring) and her wiles to get as close to her target as she can, either slipping a poison into his drink or getting close enough for a well-aimed dagger throw. She carries a few poisoned throwing daggers, but reserves her Dagger +2 for opponents that close in hand-to-hand combat, when she chooses to stand and fight. She will usually retreat if face with strong resistance however, especially against a heavily armored opponent that she is confident she can outrun. Joining the Akirinoss: To join the Akirinoss a character must fulfill four requirements: Be a member of the Assassin class, be a full-blooded elf and have a Lawful Evil alignment. Other elves and half-elves are allowed to assist the Akirinoss (provided they have levels in the Assassin or Thief class) and might even gain the status of trusted ally but they will never be admitted to the organization. The fourth, which is often the most difficult requirement to meet, is that a member of the organization in good standing must recommend a character. As you might imagine, gaining the trust of a centuries-old Assassin is not the easiest task to accomplish. Any character admitted to the Akirinoss that later fails to meet one of these requirements for any reason (most often this would be an alignment change toward Neutral or Chaotic Evil) becomes a target of the organization. Race: Elven MV: 120 ft. Class: Assassin Level: 10 AC: 5 HP: 40 #At: 1 Dm: 1d4+2 or 1d4 (thrown) AL: LE SA: +1 Missiles, -2 AC from 16 Dex XP: 1,220Possessions: Ring of Charisma (17 charges), Dagger +2, Leather +1, 4 throwing daggers (all poisoned, -2 saving throws), 1 vial ingested poison (-4 saving throw, causes death by heart attack which looks accidental), 30 gp</blockquote>

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