Nikolas Fizz Scurry

Nikolas Fizz Scurry was born a bastard on a a small uncharted isle, far off the coast of Halinn and orphaned at a young age, Nikolas Scurry has scraped his way through the lands of Abexilas, trying to find a place where he belongs.
==Family==
Nikolas's mother, Helena Scurry was a Rat-Kin of noble blood in her homeland. She often tended to the royal gardens and had a love for plants like no other rat. As she was of a higher class, Helena was to board a royal evacuation ship in the events leading to the destruction of Eldham. However in the confusion and chaos of ships leaving she was forgotten by the royal evacuation ships. Instead she ended up on a peasant ship where some passengers didn't take kindly to her noble presence. Unfortunately one night while at sea, Helena was horribly assaulted by one of the crew mates, resulting in her pregnancy. The assailant was arrested the next morning and cast overboard.
After about a month at sea, a rampant storm swept the ship well off course, into a half submerged rocky crag that the captain could not steer away from. The survivors of the shipwreck, Helena included, all washed up on the beaches of Kythnos Isle. They soon discovered that they were not the first to do so, nor the last. The inhabitants of the island had regular search parties along the beaches after storms and Nikolas's adoptive father, Edward Von Flipper, was among on of the rescue groups. For Edward and Helena, it was love at first sight. After all the horrors she had been through Edwards bulbous eyes held a welcoming light to them that told her she was safe again at last. The search party escorted the survivors to their village and Helena stayed with Edward.
Edward Von Flipper was a lesser known writer from Eldham who traveled the world interviewing leaders and adventures about their experiences in life. He boarded a regular refugee barge and was forced to leave a majority of his writings behind in order to save space on board the ship. He too found himself washed up on the shores of Kythnos Isle and spent most of his time keeping inventory for the villagers that took him in. 
==Biography==
=== Early life===
A good few months after Helena's shipwreck, Nikolas Scurry was born. Unfortunately, only days before, Helena had fallen gravely ill and she passed away shortly after giving birth. Edward promised to care for her newly born son and in her final words she uttered "Nikolas". Edward decided to keep Nikolas's last name Scurry as to honor Helena's demise. 
Nikolas spent his days in the village studying with his father's close friend, Elliot Shikhavari, an alchemist who travelled on the same refugee barge as Edward. After mixing two of the wrong chemicals together, Nikolas earned the nickname of "Fizz" due to the minor explosion he caused. When he wasn't working with Shikhavari, Nikolas was taught the ways of logistics and finance that Edward had came to learn in his time on Kythnos Isle. In addition, Edward also taught Nikolas all of his writing skills that he could. 
===Leaving Kythnos Isle===
When Nikolas was about the age of 15, a fleet of mainland pirates launched an assaults on Kythnos Isle, slaughtering any who stood in their way, including Edward Von Flipper who was slain right before Nikolas. Any who didn't resist, including Nikolas as he was frozen in fear, were captured and locked away in the pirates' brigs. 
On the pirates' way back to the mainland, they were caught in battle with a local navy on patrol. The navy boarded the pirate ships and rescued the prisoners before setting them free on the coast of Halinn. With all of his friends dead, Nikolas decided to wander a different path than the other prisoners before coming across the town of Rathattan. 
===Life in the Holy Sanctuary of Arratis===
When taken in, he was forced to swear fealty to the Rat King, a religious icon of many Rat-Kin. After moving into a small apartment in Rathattan, Nikolas was desperate to pay the rent. As he had never really worked in a hard labor job, very few would hire him. He eventually was offered a job as a recruitment officer for the Arratis People's Party (APP) which would see him moving to Ratscow. Nikolas quickly found that he was not very good with people and he could not stand the macabre office lifestyle. Between his grief for his father, friends and home as well as his mind numbing job, Nikolas fell into a deep depression. He began to live off mainly cigarettes, coffee and booze.
A few years later, he was approached with an offer to work at a brewery in another nation, far away from the rat race of Ratscow and Rathattan. This would create a problem however. By leaving the embrace of the Rat King, Nikolas would be commiting heresy, which the Arratis Inquisition usually punish via death. Nikolas had a choice- die miserable and old or try for a chance to escape. One night, in the cover of darkness, Nikolas snuck out of the city and hitch hiked his way to Kamtargaa.
===Life in Kamtargaa===
The Kamtargi accepted Nikolas with open arms and made him feel as though he had found his home. He quickly reignited his love for chemistry by working with his newfound business partner, Edward Karlin, in the production of alcohol for the soon to be built Kamtarg Pub. Together they have slowly expanded the production, profits and reach of the Kamtarg Pub.
Unfortunately however, the Inquisition had found him. One night while he was brewing alone, the inquisition soldiers as well as the president herself came knocking. They ordered he repent and return to the land of the Rat King but for the first time in his life he stood up for himself. He talked down the Rat King and their zealous rage. Unfortunately for Nikolas, this only angered the inquisition further. They drew their weapons and began to attack him, ripping fur from flesh, flesh from bone. When the Inquisition had finished their demonstration, Nikolas was curled up in a pool of his own blood quivering and whining, begging for mercy. President Iris Van Der Rat announced his banishment and left him cold, dying and alone.
Fortunately Nikolas had been experimenting with the healing properties of brewing and managed to gather his strength to distill a powerful herbal tea capable of healing severe wounds. Although still covered in wretched scars and the occasional bald patch, Nikolas made quite the recovering considering his circumstances.
=== Return of the Inquisition ===
After many months of peace after Nikolas' last near life ending attack, the Inquisition had returned to remind him of his treason to the "Rat King". After once again turning down repentance the Inquisition bloodied their claws once more. Although not as violent as the last time, it was enough for Nikolas to see that his only choice was to return to them.
After the others within the Inquisition left, Sin "Ratlin" remained, the only of Nikolas' rat brethren to show compassion toward him while he was in exile. Having once been marked a traitor too, Sin connected with Nikolas and convinced him to return to Ratscow. 
=== Beginning Anew in Arratis ===
Upon returning to Ratscow, Scurry was taken on a tour of all that had changed since his departure before he was baptized within the Ratscow Church of the Rat King, where his sins of betrayal were officially washed away. Although legally, Nikolas was now free of sin, very few rat kin still trusted him. In order to prove himself, he was required to slave away in the subterranean cactus farms of Rathattan for weeks on end until he had accumulated enough bottled magic to be forgiven by the president herself, Iris Van Der Rat. 
Nikolas continues to travel between his homes, aiding in the management of the Kamtarg Pub and supervising productions of the newly established brewery in Ratscow.
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