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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 2250178" data-attributes="member: 11437">Tanus' BackgroundI have a background that hopefully will help to tie us together, or at least get us closer to that point in the history.  Let me know what you guys think.- TANUS OF GREYHAWK - For as long as anyone can remember, the Tieflings have served the rulers of Castle Greyhawk.  Many think that the tradition began with the Mad Archmage Zagyg Yragerne, who was known to dabble in demonology, but there is evidence to suggect that the Tieflings of Castle Greyhawk, who were Suloise with the hint of the blood of a Marilith demon, may have been in Castle Greyhawk for longer.In any case, Tieflings had been servants in Castle Greyhawk for a long time.  In that time, the Tieflings had come from being confined to the lowest dungeons, cleaning dungeon cells and torture chambers, to the near respectability they currently enjoy.  In fact, the current Tiefling patriarch, Marald, was manservant to the High Seneschal himself.This rise in status had its benefits.  The Tiefling children were tutored, and given access to the entire castle, and even played with the human children.  Tanus, Marald's second of three sons and the most intelligent and obstinant, was the brightest student of the bunch.  He quickly realized and hated the Tieflings' place as permanent servants to the rulers of Castle Greyhawk.  This hatred caused Tanus to flee Castle Greyhawk at age 16, not to return for a long, long time.With little experience outside the castle walls, Tanus found a home with the traveling circus known as the Brothers of Garad.  Tanus, gifted with natural agility and quickness, was a natural as a performing acrobat, and would travel with the circus for some time.  The Brothers of Garad circus made its way from Greyhawk around the Nyr Dyv, to the lands of Veluna, Verbobonc, Bissel, Furyondy, and finally the Duchy of Urnst.During these travels, Tanus also discovered a predilection for thievery.  He would steal from every noble or wealthy merchant he would come across and, though he had been quite successful early in his career, Tanus' luck ran out while in Nyrstran, a city on the coast of the Nyr Dyv.  He was imprisoned for thievery, and left to rot in the Nyrstran jail.Things looked bleak for Tanus, as no one came to claim him or bail him out.  He had almost given up hope when the Lord Mayor of Nyrstran came to Tanus with an offer to win his freedom.  It seems that the Lord Mayor had acquired an abandoned keep just outside the city, and learned that it was full of undead and other sundry creatures, and had put out an offer to have the place cleared out.  Tanus agreed to the offer, and was released into the custody of a Paladin who had been visiting Nyrstran, who had agreed, along with others, to aid the Lord Mayor.</blockquote>

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