Name:
Ixiv Rex
Age: 26
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Alignment: True Neutral
Class: Fighter
Diety: None
Description:-
Standing at a massive 6'4" this imposing figure holds himself with dignity and pride. Even his casual stance tells of years of training and duty, while his body tells of a lifetime of hard work. Often mistaken for a mute, due to rarely speaking, or a simpleton when he does speak.
Bio:-
Early childhood:
Ix's early childhood is perhaps the life he cherishes and misses the most,
though harsh and unforgiving as his family was - his time in Leringard was the best for him. His family were worshippers of Corath, eager to further themselves. Through ruthless business dealings where their religious beliefs and business strategy overlapped they became successful and moderately wealthy.
Ixiv, the ninth child and only fourth to survive, never wanted for anything. One by one his older brothers entered into the business as enforcers and debt collectors, all except one, who left to seek his own fame and fortune - taking a good portion of the seasons takings with him.
Late childhood:
During his later childhood, when capable of understanding, his parents tried to introduce
Ixiv to the intricacies of religion, secrecy, back-stabbing and double-dealing. While
Ixiv picked up on some of these, he often tended to other topics with little more than a feigned interest. It was one morning, when
Ixiv was ten, that his father disappeared overnight; his mother said his father had run away, as some but not all of his belongings were gone.
Early teens:
With his father, their previous debt enforcer, now gone
Ixiv's mother quickly paid a considerable sum to hire a personal trainer, one who had been used before on his older brothers. This personal trainer instructed
Ixiv to pick a weapon he felt he liked, trying to be difficult
Ixiv chose a
bastard sword, too large for him to even lift at the time. Ix was at first dismayed that the trainer said this was a good choice, but later delighted in all the wonderful tactics and moves he learnt.
Mid teens:
Years upon years of training passed
Ixiv by. He and his trainer moved on from wooden mock weapons to real weapons and armour. During this period
Ixiv learnt dozens of more fantastical moves; how to trip an opponent, fight whole groups at once, dodge seemingly impossible to survive blows and deliver incredible shield shattering blows of his own. All this time with his weapon of choice.
Late teens:
Eventually this training came to and end and
Ixiv entered into business with his mother and two brothers. Years upon years of training and hard work had formed him into a strapping young man and an intimidating figure of authority. This made him ideal for the work of bullying local suppliers, collecting debts and intimidating travelling traders into passing by or selling their wares cheaper than usual. All to the family's profit of course.
Early adulthood:
As time went by,
Ixiv entered into his early twenties and started to take on more and more aspects of the business, including trading with other towns and cities and collecting larger and more dangerous debts. Anonymity was key, and
Ixiv took on an appearance he's never really left behind to facilitate his job.
Leading up to present:
One collection went foul however, a guardsman owed the family a great deal and
Ixiv was sent to collect, being considered a match for the mans skills with a sword. While the guardsmans debts mounted so he was waging a secret mission; gathering information and evidence against the family. Upon going to collect,
Ixiv was confronted and told that his mother and brothers had already been taken into custody.
Ixiv disabled three guardsmen and escaped temporarily to check on his home. His family were gone and more men were laying in wait, mercenaries hired to help catch him.
Ixiv killed both of them and gathered as much of his belongings as he could before running to hop onto the next boat out of port. With only the clothes on his back, and the coin from collections earlier in the day he ran,
Ixiv has arrived in a new land, to forge a new life and maybe even seek fame and glory, just for the sake of it. A focus for his drive of hatred and frustration, even more so than the point of his
sword.
Clarifications:- To clarify, his entire family ran a 'business', including his mother, father and brothers.
- They run the business like a kind of mafia, allowing credit and loans that were often violently collected
- The brother that left to adventure, is dead - for a long time, at least two years dead, though he doesn't know this IC.
- Ix never really took to being a Corathite, but it didn't interfere much with his day-to-day activities
- Ixiv is very bitter and spiteful and full of frustration and rage - I would have liked to play him as lawful evil or chaotic neutral right off.
STEALTH EDITS: Two stealth edits to change backstory minorly to reflect his weapon of choice, changed due to extra time spent in character planning. Also added the list to clarify a few points that may have been a little muddy in the original bio.
Updated to add all modifications made into bold text to make them easier to find. Thankyou.
Ix Iv Rex 
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