Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26535281-20161227180106/@comment-26005135-20161228062720

Sounds like everyone's jumping in! I might as well stop postponing my entrance.

Name: The Criminal Underworld

Leader: It depends from place to place.

History and general backstory: So long as there were people, people made rules. So long as there were rules, some people broke them. Those people were the criminals. That's what most people know. Most people don't know that there's an entire society for these sorts of people, a society without the illusion of good and justice on the top of it, and that makes things a lot faster. All the thieves, assassins and other assorted criminals are subject to the leaders and rules, and those that don't adhere, die. Simple.

Other: The Underworld deals in information, services, and stolen goods. It also hates war and turmoil, because that deprives the place of the much-needed money and supplies. Also note that thieves help each other. It's not a 'every man for himself' society. They banded together for survival, and they stick to their bands, at least until it's time to split the loot.

Magic (If applicable): Sometimes they deal in magic items and artifacts, and some very few criminals can even call upon some little rudimentary magic. Rogue mages don't tend to join the common criminals.



Name: Weltun the Icy

Gender: Male

Rank: One of the higher-ranking criminals of the Criminal Underworld for the fiefdom of Ausutria, the one that organizes the stuff and helps with the reports and the paperwork. Yes, criminals need paperwork. He's also dabbled in ice magic.

Appearance: A thin man, with a very cold expression on his face most of the time, giving him his nickname. Sometimes it scares people.

Backstory: Weltun is a commoner. That's what they used to see him as. He had little money, and little food, from childhood to adulthood. The nobles disliked his cold gaze. They hated him. He hated them. That's about all he tells people. He got on the wrong side of the country after he cut the head off an offending noble with a shortsword that he stole from the noble's armory. He was chased down for murder, but escaped with a few criminals into the underworld who decided to lend a hand. See, that noble, while not too bad for a noble, funded the lawkeeping forces of the area, and with one less of that noble to worry about, the town guards would be less numerous and worse armed. They took him in to the underworld. He has a head for reports and whatnot, and he works with that.

Magic: Just a little ice. Cooling rooms, freezing water, that sort of thing. He dabbled in it after he got the paperwork plus a very nice spellbook from stealing from a library, and he got to keep the book for a while.