never be less than you deserve.

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― independent roleplay of RIXIAN ZYLROS, an original character written for the forgotten realms lore of dungeons and dragons, as written by vlad. a story in : refusing to remove the mask when the performance is done, becoming a living ghost, and choosing to go anywhere .

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the thieves' code.

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.    FULL NAME.    .    rixian zylros
.    AKA.    .    rixi (nickname), vaelryn sarven (alias).
.    D.O.B. + AGE.    .    06 / 21 | thirty-four
.    GENDER.    .    nb masc
.    PRONOUNS.    .    he / they
.    ORIENTATION.    .    bisexual
.    OCCUPATION.    .    mercenary, harper
.    RACE.    .    half-elf
.    CLASS.    .    phantom rogue / whispers bard

ABILITY SCORES.HP: 83 | AC: 19 | DC: 17STR: 8 | DEX: 18 | CON: 14
INT: 14 | WIS: 10 | CHA: 16PROF: acrobatics, deception, insight, investigation, perception, performance, persuasion, sleight of hand, stealth.

.    FEATS.    .    prodigy, skulker, crossbow expert, magic initiate (warlock)
.    BIRTHPLACE.    .    waterdeep
.    CURRENT HOME.    .    roaming
.    LANGUAGE(S).=    .    common, elvish, infernal, abyssal, undercommon
.    PARENTS.    .    lizeth zylros (mother, deceased), aleanear korae (father, deceased)
.    PET(S).    .    bael (winged snake), sweetheart (war horse)

some of us are just lighthouses for ghosts.

READ THE ENTIRE STORY OF THE FATEFINDERS HERE. THIS IS A SHORTENED VERSION.RIXIAN ZYLROS is born the night of high summer in the city of waterdeep, instantly beloved by the thieves' guild that his mother leads. here, lizeth is queen, surrounded by her court of scoundrels, and rixian is considered the prince of the hoard. outside, the world beckons for all brave and wondrous souls to find a place and make their mark upon destiny beyond the lapping waves of waterdeep's famed harbors. the first years make for joyous memories, until the reality of their place in the copper district (waterdeep's poorest corners inside the city) are made clear when a plague sweeps through and steals lizeth from the guild when rixian is only six.raised from that point on by antipode, a yuan-ti assassin and former zhentil, rixian is quick to learn that to thrive in the city of splendours, one must earn their keep. his skills lie within trickery and deception, and when he comes of age, the name vaelryn sarven is known to many of waterdeep's nobility as a silvertongued merchant with a knack for disappearing - and rixian zylros is known to a handful of the city's librarians, having befriended the tiefling son of the head of the archive when he was still young.one fateful day during the summer solstice festival, rixian joins ranks alongside said tiefling with a paladin new to a detective agency headed by a woman named clairece. their first job takes them to scour the city for disappearing tieflings, managing to find all but one: a young woman named fate who clairece has been on the search for for many years now. following clairece's sudden and unexplained death, the party takes the clues she has and set out to finally find this woman - and become entangled in something entirely otherworldly at play.the party is pulled into the land of barovia during their search, during which the party faces the trials of werewolves, vampiric stalkers, and a plot unraveling that threatens the entire crystal spheres of existence surrounding one particular character: fate.the major revelations and trials faced by rixian are each as varied and intense as the last. he is hunted by the baron metus, a reprehensible vampire lord that hid under the radar for decades, punctuated by the reveal that rixian's father was a famed assassin who ran from lizeth rather than have her dragged into his ill-fated end. the city of immol is a dark and stormy chapter that rixian looks back on with a haunted look in his eye, and not only because of the baron.in immol, an abyssal presence made itself known to him - a demonic general named vengu that attached itself to his shadow after rixian played quick and fast with making deals to ensure his own survival and happiness, and began chewing pieces off of him one at a time. it took a collected effort from the entire fatefinders to release that hold, and even then the threat remains. vengu would claim his soul eventually.in the end, rixian knew that waterdeep was no longer home to him. escaping the mists changed him too irrevocably to return to that place, and so his final act in his story was to step onto a ship that could go anywhere in the worlds - and then go anywhere.