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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azgulor" data-source="post: 3525751" data-attributes="member: 14291">Cyryn, Half-Elf Rogue (CG)HistoryThe product of his aristocratic mother’s dalliance with an elven emissary, Cyryn was denied the life of privilege his parents enjoyed.  When his mother scandalized her family by first having the affair and then refusing to be rid of the child, she was disowned and put out into the streets.  Her betrayal was complete when her lover refused her sanctuary and denied the child was his.  Despite being alone, shunned, and abandoned, she steeled herself to raise her child and provide for the two of them.  She left the city of her birth as part of a pilgrimage and never returned.Cyryn, grew up among the poor of a town, the last settlement his mother could reach before her pregnancy prevented further travel.  As a half-breed in a town with no elves, he grew up on the streets while his mother was forced to sell her body to keep them fed and with a roof over their heads.  Already a target of bullies because of his heritage, Cyryn found himself continually fighting to defend his mother’s honor.His half-elven blood caused him to mature slower than the human children of his age, which didn’t make things any easier.  As his mother’s looks faded from the hard life she lived, she obtained a job as a cook at a tavern.  Cyryn was put to work running errands, sweeping floors, and bussing tables.  Cyryn’s mother had taught him his letters and numbers and proper etiquette, but it was in the tavern that his true education began.Although the town was small, it was located along a major trade road and Cyryn was enthralled with the different peoples, races, accents, and stories that he saw and heard.  It was this romanticized view of adventure that led him to pick his first pocket.  The thrill of it never left him.  His love and duty to his mother prevented him from striking out as a young adult, but when his mother died from a lengthy illness in his 20th year, he struck out on his own.  Like his mother, he never looked back.Cyryn, although named for his father, has no love lost for the man.  He knows almost nothing of his elven ancestors and is not particularly bothered by that fact.  He seeks the life denied him by his mother and views thievery and adventuring as his best method of gaining it.It’s a big world.  Cyryn’s going to see if it’s ready for him.  He’s betting it’s not.Weapons: Scimitar, DaggersSkills: Blend of Char-based skills like Bluff & Gather Info combined with thief skills.Azgulor</blockquote>

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