Name
: Veridas Ashheart
Gender
: Male
Race
: Breton
Alignment: Lawful evil
Age: 28
Marital Status
: Single
Sexual Preference: Heterosexual
Class: Assassin
Combat Preference: Veridas is an assassin in many senses of the word. He prefers to take his targets by surprise, cutting them down before they have a chance to strike back. He is equally skilled with using a single weapon, or a weapon in both hands. He is a competent archer as well, but he prefers to do his killing up close. Utilizes an red bladed saber, and a jagged, steel dagger in his off hand.
Veridas has spent years among vampires, learning their strengths, and more importantly, their weaknesses. He is capable of matching blades with all but the most powerful of vampires, and takes full advantage of this. Because of this, most mortal fighters stand a poor chance against Veridas in one on one combat.
Though he is an assassin, Veridas will not shy from straightforward combat. He is an expert at close, hand to hand combat, though he'll resort to that only if he has no other options. Meticulous in his planning and carrying out of a job, most of the assassins targets are dead before they realize it. However, while Veridas can improvise well, he prefers to have the upper hand before commencing an attack. If caught off guard, it is likely he will flee, rather than fight. Veridas despises magic, and all who use it.
Weapons: A red bladed sabre, and a jagged, steel dagger.
Armour: very light chainmail, worn underneath his tunic. The rest of his apparel is included in the appearance section.
Appearance: Veridas stands at 5'10", has fair skin, for the most part unmarked by scars. The one notable mar is a burn scar that covers most of his right cheek. He has dark green eyes, and black hair. He has a neatly trimmed goatee, and mustache. Veridas, at first glance, is built more like a sprinter than a fighter. His wiry, thin form has often fooled would be opponents into a false sense of security.
Veridas wears a dark grey tunic, with a pair of black leather pants. Though these articles of clothing provide absolutely no protection in a fight, they add to the inconspicuous image Veridas strives to present. Underneath, he wears a very fine, light form of chainmail. Though the mail wouldn't hold up against any heavy fighting, it is sufficient to deflect two or three blows. Which is all Veridas really needs.
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Personality: Veridas is extremely confident in his abilities. Though some might see that as a flaw, in truth, Veridas has no reason not to be confident. He's only once come across a target that he could not eliminate. Though not intentionally cruel, Veridas has no problems inflicting pain on others. Whether to get information, or simply to assure a witnesses silence. Though when it comes time to kill, he makes the death as swift and painless as he can. He is, after all, a professional.
Due to his traumatic childhood, Veridas doesn't trust anyone. He prefers to keep those he meets at arms length, preferably with one hand on his blade. He despises those that rely on drugs, such as skooma, believing that to handicap oneself with intoxicant is paramount to giving up on ones life. Though he does believe that gods exist, he doesn't think they have any real interest in mortals. Though not afraid of much, he has a deep rooted fear of mages, which he's turned into a hatred. He will never pass by a chance to cut down a mage, and will do so with all the more pleasure if he's paid for it.
Though he has no real problem with authority, he doesn't have much respect for them, either. He has no reservations about breaking the law. He'll bribe law enforcement if he can, eliminate them if he can't. Though he prefers not to kill those that aren't his target or mages, he won't lose sleep over it.
Likes: Success, Coins, having a battle plan laid out before hand
Dislikes: Surprises, Vampires, and mages.
History: Raised in the slums of Jehanna, Veradis was raised solely by his mother. His father was a mage that abandoned his wife before Veridas was born.Though his mother did her best, she could only barely provide for the both of them. When he was eight, an entourage of mages passed through, lead by Veridas' father, she confronted him. Embarrassed by the sight of a poor, starving woman impeding the mages progress, he killed her.
Unknown to the mage, Veridas, his son, had witnessed the entire confrontation. Though young, Veridas' hatred against the man that had killed his mother was strong. After burying her, Veridas left Jehanna behind, and worked as a thief for a time. When a job went bad, Veridas defended himself and killed the home owner. As the years passed, Veridas amassed a small fortune, and left the thieves life behind.
Eventually, he discovered a freelance assassin, who taught him what he knew. By the time he was twenty, Veridas was a master in his own right. He'd developed a fearsome reputation, especially among mages. He killed his father after three years of tracking him across both High Rock and Skyrim. During his travels, Veridas decided that all mages were as corrupt and self centred as his father had been, and decided to eliminate as many as he could.
While staying in Falkreath, Veridas was approached by a man who offered him a job. The job was to eliminate a powerful vampiric sorcerer dwelling in the Bloodlet throne. Unknown to Veridas, the client was a vampire serving the very same vampire Veridas had been hired to kill. Veridas entered the castle, and was promptly ambushed by a pack of vampires. He managed to defeat several, and Salthar Vivarian, the lord of the coven and the Altmer vampire he'd been hired to kill, was impressed by his skill, and spared his life.
Veridas spent years living among the vampires, being sent to kill those that sought to undermined the coven. Though he was valuable, he was not trusted, and frequently treated as inferior. Eventually, Veridas came to hate the vampires of Bloodlet Throne. When on a job near Riften, he heard the Salthar himself was coming to the city of thieves. Seeing his chance to be free, he contacted the Dawnguard.
Though Salthar and his elite guard defeated the ambush, Vivarian found out that Veridas had been behind the ambush. Vampiric assassins chased Veridas across Skyrim. Seeking refuge, Veridas joined up with a different clan of vampires. Though he dislikes the vampires as much as he does any other, he prefers them to taking his chance on his own.
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