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Ladro de Meruzzi
A stunted scion to a lesser branch of the Meruzzi banking house, this caliban was, in some ways, lucky and unlucky compared to others of his kind. He was not killed at birth, or discarded in the wilds. His rather degenerate family had unusual tastes and traditions; they were of middling influence in the ever changing and gold driven landscape of Borca and the whims of it's tyrannical Lady Boritsi, but certainly better off than most. And so Ladro was raised as a sort of jester, a droll amusement and servant, a skulking creature who waited on his relatives at dinner with a silver mask to cover his hideous features, dutifully swept the damp vaults' tunnels and maintained the traps guarding their client's deposits, and occasionally was used as a guinea pig for various poisons and toxins. Though his body was deformed, he was born with more cunning than his family realized, and he put on a show of being a simple minded lackey while at night in his raggy den beneath the manor he schemed and plotted. One day the humiliations proved too much for even his beaten down pride; there was a slip of arsenic into a perfume bottle, a dead aunt, and five hundred gold in his cloth sack. Ladro fled into the backstreets of Levkarest with a new dream; he would develop his talents and become a legendary thief, the sort he fondly remembered reading about in old stories, and someday return to rob his family blind. Perhaps then they would know his worth, and the promise they had squandered...
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