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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dpdx" data-source="post: 598650" data-attributes="member: 188">Padraic Fenn - background'Padraic Fenn' is the assumed name of a man wanted by the Ashkian government for the murder of at least one official of the Empire. Formerly from the island of [insert island name here], now under Ashkian control, Padraic fled his island at the age of 20, to escape capture. His prowess with weaponry and his unquenchable thirst for Ashkian blood led him to the Rebellion at Dralin, where he was placed into Dralin 18.---------Padraic was born 23 years ago into a meager existence, the Ashkian oppression of his island dimming job prospects for his father and mother, a gemcutter and former municipal clerk, respectively. Padraic was 14 when his parents joined the short-lived revolution on their own island. When a mission failed, and was traced back to his parents, Padraic watched from a nearby home as they were summarily executed by the Ashkians, and his family home burned to the ground.Padraic, horrified and livid, underwent a personality change that day. Where his once sunny disposition gave way to the mania of a tortured man, he dropped out of tutoring and began to practice with weapons on his own in a nearby forest. As Padraic improved, his maniacal laughter could be heard by those of the keenest ear, if they were near enough.Padraic was 19 when he exacted his blood oath for vengeance, and this resulted in the grisliest deaths and dismemberments his island had ever seen. When Ashkian officials arrived at the scene, pieces of the Ashkian guard commander and each of his family members, including a wife and several small children, were strewn about the parlor room of his house, some arrayed in lewd positions.Before the Ashkians could piece together a suspect, Padraic had fled the island.-----After a rocky start that resulted in fear giving way to trust, Padraic adapted very well to training in Dralin 18, in some cases mirroring and refining what he had taught himself in the forest on his island.Not much of Padraic's past is known to his fellow revolutionaries, or even to the commanders of the Dralin revolution. They know he's a wanted man back on his island. They know that to spend two minutes around the man can be unnerving, as the frequent puzzled stares and offhand comments attest. They doubt his sanity, and if Padraic could talk about it directly, he would doubt his own sanity. But no one has ever doubted his ability. And now, no one doubts his loyalty. And in Padraic's own little world, that is enough.-----Padraic has black hair, blue eyes, average build, the usual two-day growth, and looks for all the world like the average peasant of Dralin. It is when he speaks, laughs or smiles, that people get the sense that something's not right with this man.</blockquote>

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