[Samsara]

Reno Crow'Entair

Age: 24
Race:: Half-Elf
Alignment: Started from Chaotic Neutral to Chaotic Good (When he falls in love with the elf maiden Katarina)

Appearance:
Portrait


Group Picture of his comrades. (He's on the left)


Him and Katarina


After he loses Katarina, he beomes a Ranger


His death



Equipment
Weapons: Dual Elven Katanas (gift from his grandfather)
Armor: Simple leather armor with lots of pockets and folds


Bio:
Reno was born in a port town full of pirates and cut throats and into a family of the local assasins guild. During a raid on the elven borders, he met a woman named Serena. They both fell in love and ran off together to escape Reno's bloody past. As the months went by, they were to be wedded but the assasins caught up to Serena while Reno was gone. All he found was a burned campsite and a broken blade. From then on, Reno decided to be a bandit hunter to ensure that nothing like this will ever hurt anyone else.

Along his travels he meets a group of bounty hunters who call themselves the Night's Eye, a very ominous group that is widely misunderstood. During his time with them, he meets a woman named Katarina who helps rebuild the man Reno once was.

Story Excerpts

Reno

I walk in almost a drunken state swaggering side to side with a burning pain in my head that just wont go away. I enter the woods...wait! I hear footsteps!

I know im being followed so i draw my blades and disappear behind a tree to see if i can catch a glimpse of my pursuers.

*a twig snaps*

A gruff heavy goblin barks "Stoopid Ferghat! The tallfolkens are closen to..."

*three 'thumps' are heard*

What could have killed the goblins and what were the "tall folk" they were after, because I dont believe I have done anything wrong to them.

*four cloaked figures with red hoods appear out of no where behind the corpses*

"Raeth, you shouldnt have killed them, now we have to hide the bodies before He sees them" whispers a deathly familiar female voice

"They were making alot of ruckus, im surprised He hasnt seen them yet" says the one designated as Raethe.

"Nevermind that now, we have lost his trail, lets keep looking" says another coldly.

*the four men leave but the woman takes a look around before she leaves*

Dammit, the Scarlet Blade is after me. How could they have found me? I made sure to cover my tracks everywhere I, hell no one save a few know my name isnt Leon.

What is this pain I have? I feel as if it is burning me alive! Samia isnt far off, maybe i should go there. The guards will probably help me get away from the bandits, if not i can probably get a good disguise there. And hopefully I can rid myself of this pain.

*Reno staggers past a goblin camp and into the Starlight Woods when he sees a shadow flicker*

"Show yourself!"

*Reno unsheathes his katana and his bloodshot eyes dart around*

"Reno....it has been a while"

*Reno turns around to meet the woman and a tear rolls down his scar"

"S-Serena..."

The world was a dark vortex pulling me into its epicenter where an endless scream nearly shattered my ears. I felt as if i was suffocating, every breath i took seemed to be the last one I would have on this world. The wind on my back was colder than any Volsk winter which made me shiver uncontrollably and I couldnt help but wonder why she did this. I vowed to give my life to her in servitude before, I loved her. I remembered clearly our decimated camp where the three volsk barbarians came and pillaged, i remember her corpse.....wait, did I? It pains me to think of this, this betrayal, was she just the lure to bring me in and into the Blade's hands? The truth hit me harder than any sword ever would.

"Malleh, Malleh, get up!"

Those words! They sound so familiar. Yet so distant

*squints and sees Katarina's slender face and tears running down her cheeks*

Kat! Her face was a beacon of hope for me. Yet the similarity between her and Serena is uncanny. Even if I do survive this, can I trust her? Is she not the same as her? I was blinded by love once, I'm not sure if i can handle another heartbreak. Yet her tears and sadness seem sincere...

"Quick we need to get him to Sea Grove, Fast!"

These people, my friends. I now know in my heart that they wont betray me, they won't hurt me. They will never abandon me as well.

*Reno looks up slowly to see Katarina manage a small smile while choking back tears*

The salty air of the port permeated the atmosphere of the abandoned house that served as a makeshift hideout to a small group of bandits. Four no, five of them were in the middle of the room, three at the table and one doing a sup-par job at hiding himself in the corner of the room with a magical veil that made it harder to see him. An elven figure carressed a man no younger than 35 at the head of the table and spoke quietly into his ear that only made the man snicker.

Serena, the whore, she lives and quite well i see. I didnt want to do this but her crimes shall be paid in blood.

Nadrith the man who was at the head of the table took a big gulp of his wine and the moment he put the bottle down, two of his companions lay dead with arrows penetrating their skulls.

"Show yourself, you are a dead man!"

An azure blur leaped from wall to wall until it reached the woman and promplty slit her throat before she even screamed for help.

"Nadrith" the man said after he pulled down his hood, "It ends here!"

"Crowe" Nadrith snarled and in an instant the assasin reached for his daggers and he sprinted after man in blue. Thrust after thrust countered by precise parries and dodges wearied the older man until his companion at the table sprang into action with darts flying across the room. Of the seven daggers thrown, Reno dodged four, leaving two digging into his side and one into his left arm.

Reno staggered for a moment and only smiled as he snapped his fingers and the other man's shadow rose from the ground and proceeded to choke him. The man, Raeth, was familiar with conjurations such as these because at one point he knew how to control them. So he fled through the window and cast a simple light spell on himself. Reno laughed at the simple tactic because he knew that his shadow would be stronger, what he didnt realize was the glass that was broken all over the man's cloak which reflected the light stronger. The shadow's screech of agony could be heard all over the Cove until it burned to ash. Raeth limped all the way into the alleys and wasnt seen again.

I have to finish this quickly until the rest of them come

At first Reno considered coming in with his katana and his dagger to offset the swashbuckler style of the bandit. In the end he decided to with the style he knew best, and with the weapon he loved best.
Reno exploded into motion, rushing up the back side of the room, brandishing sword and dagger as he came over the table, as if he expected Nadrith to meet him there. The bandit didnt move, out of fear of determination it is not known.
They stared at each other for a long time, the tension and anger building up on each other. They broke as one , both charging for the middle of the room, both seeking to get the first hit. Reno gained a step advantage, perhaps because he was much younger than the aging man and not under alcahol's effect.
With a quick feint Reno grabbed one of Nadrith's poisonous daggers and did a backflip off the table and threw his katana with all his might at Nadrith. With a malicious grin on Nadrith's face he quickly moved aside and caught the katana and lunged for Reno.
Nadrith impaled his opponent in th shoulder and with a triumphant smile he yanked the katana out.
But he couldnt, in fact he couldnt move at all. He glanced at his hip to see the dagger that Reno took from him oozing poison.
Reno kicked him onto the floor after he took his katana out of his arm and sheathed it.

"You should have left me be" Reno spat.

In another blur he pulled the other dagger and drove it through the man's chest snapping ribs and smashing it through the man's black heart.

Reno walked outside the house and put on his hood again and wondered to himself if his heart was as black as Nadrith's.

How am I going to tell Kat

Much later on, Katarina and Reno split apart. The Elf that used to be Katarina's fiance gets into a fight with Reno (with Reno the victor) over an arguement of whether or not Reno was worthy of Kat's affection. In an ironic twist, Katarina leaves Reno in favor for the Elf. With no purpose left in life, Reno turns to a suicidal state of mind and abandons all contact with the outside world.

Much later on, he is found dead on a beach. Murdered by the same bandits he used to call family.