Gregarious Talon Rook

:Not to be confused with Rook from Ascension Academy RP.
Gregarious Talon Rook is a half-orc barkeep who runs "The Grindstone" bar in Callous Row together with his ward Faye. He cares deeply about her and sees her as his adoptive daughter.
He seldom reveals his full name and to most, he is known simply as "Rook".
In secret he runs a resistance organization named "The Shattered Legion" and is gathering new recruits and allies to fight against the Mega-corporations. He is possibly forming a small rebel army consisting of several teams of mercenaries.
Rook being Arcadum's main-character for Callous Row this page is also used to recap events from a DM:s (Dungeon Master) perspective.
==Origin==
He was a soldier in The War of Unification on the losing side of the union vs the corporations.
During the war Rook almost became a chaplain of The Red Moon, the patron deity of the Orcs where he comes from, but decided against it. Living in the darkness, he felt that he lost faith of the light.
Nearing the end of the war he rescued Faye, who had gotten separated from her parents. Escaping they made their way to Savior City on Corvanis 3 in the Corvanis system and eventually ended up in it's slums - Callous Row. Rook cares for Faye, refers to her as his ward, daughter and considers her his adoptive daughter. Together they run the local bar, The Grindstone.
Below the bar Rook houses his secret base of operations for their rebel organization "The Shattered Legion".
==History - Season 1 - Recap==
After the quarantine period in the Row mandated by the corporations ended, remaining survivors from whatever disease devastated them try to recover and reacquaint themselves with their new neighbors. Not knowing the exact reason for the lockdown the surviving slummers continue business as usual. Rook continues to cope with his diagnosed PTSD with tormenting flashbacks from The War of Unification as he recruits new members to The Shattered Legion. 
As Rook amasses his resistance force they rob corporate owned deliveries and get their hands on a new weapon designed to kill magic users that the corporations were fighting over. As they make the corps job more difficult this unfortunately also opens up to reveal the presence of powerful magic users who happen make their homes in and beneath the slums. Bitter rivals both the Mars Corporation and the Quixote Corporation send armed squads into the row in order to recover the weapon plans by force but end up in an armed conflict on the streets against each-other instead. In the aftermath of the conflict the TALARIS Corporation which focuses specifically on magic jumps in, taking a much more lenient approach by making allies with many slummers and creating a delicate peace for a while. This also creates a divide of sorts - splitting the row into those who are magically inclined in the undercity - and those who make their homes on the streets in the slums.
A meddling scientist from the WOTO Corporation comes investigating to the row but as he discovers The Undercity Grove he gets murdered by Conk and his crew. Sending a large group of armed reinforcements in response, the slummers decide not to put up a fight but it meant that the grove was no longer a secret. In an effort to gain access to the grove and exploit it WOTO threatens Mayor Coach to cut off food and water supplies to the slummers. The corps getting more ingrained with who the trouble makers are in the row start sending hit-men to try and dispatch the leaders forming the resistance. Rook gets a target on his head for a while but manages to keep his head underground. The Nirvana Corporation kidnaps Bo, being a mushroom person native to the grove she's a candidate for experimentation. A rescue operation is launched and she is freed. Quixote sends their own infiltrator to the Row, Lange Pliskin to learn more, when his plans fails he ends up detonating a bomb in the grove. 
The mystery surrounding the previous quarantine is later revealed as a new area in The Undercity below the row is explored. Masses of body bags with corpses are found which reveal a mushroom like infection that turned people into mindless zombies. Finding a magical symbol the slummers discover an ancient evil very different compared to the corporations - The Necromancer. 
An assassin going by the name Kaiphus The Collector wounds Rook's precious daughter Faye, nearly killing her. In response he goes on a rampage revenge mission but instead he is the one who ends up missing in the effort, possibly killed or kidnapped by Kaiphus. Instead of presuming Rook to be dead Loch and his fellow "cowboys" investigate, following clues and lead a mission onboard a spaceship previously presumed to be destroyed in the war. Onboard the ship they find the same mushroom infected people as from the quarantine zone. Fighting them off they decide to destroy the ship to prevent any further spread and send it on a course into the system star. Before doing so they use the ships long-range scanners to locate Rooks power armor. They learn that he is located somewhere below the undercity, pointing once again towards The Necromancer.
Threatening the existence not just of the row but the rest of Savior City, thanks to the magical powers of Bo - "The Lightbringer" - her magic, the slummers and the magically affined, face up and defeat the necromancer and rescue Rook. The corps and the rich people from the Upper City have many reasons to be thankful for the brave slummers who risked their lives, defeating a threat that they never even knew had existed.Callous Row Season 1 Twitch VOD Collection Callous Row Season 1 YouTube playlist
For a more detailed description of most events from Rooks perspective in the first season please see:
==History - Season 2==
==Traits==
===Edges===
===Flaws===
*PTSD - He suffers from terrible flashbacks from his time in The War of Unification.
*Light drinker - For being a barkeep who serves alcohol he himself appears to handle drinking poorly.
*No depth perception - He is blind on one eye and has a nasty scar across his face as well as scars on other body parts.
==Trivia==
*His character makes use of his barkeep role and represents the comparable role of a "quest giver".
*He has the letters "TAXES" and "DEATH" - "The two inevitable things" - tattooed on the knuckles of his fists.
*He calls robots and intelligent machines "synthetics" and considers them worthy of person-hood, realizing their sentience.
**His organization "The Shattered Legion" aims to free all Synthetics of bondage.
*Rooks avatar was created for Arcadum by Sketchu.https://twitter.com/ValmayGreen/status/1191418533810302978
==Links==
===Social Links===
*Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arcadum
*Twitter: https://twitter.com/GloriousArcadum
*Playlist: All Callous Row Season 1 episodes
*Twitch Collection: All Callous Row Season 2 Episodes
===Twitch Clips===
*Why Rook hates magic
*It's not the size of the boat
*Biggest Deck
===Episodes===
====Season 1====
*Callous Row Season 1 Episode playlist : A Twilight Dawn & video collection
*Callous Row Ep. 2: Roll the Dice
*Callous Row Ep. 3: Something Wicked this Way Comes
*Callous Row Ep. 4: Hubris
*Callous Row Ep. 5: Laying Low
*Callous Row Ep. 6: Slow Burn
*Callous Row Ep. 7: Phantasms
*Callous Row Ep. 8: Desperation
*Callous Row Ep. 9: New Arrivals
*Callous Row Ep. 10: New Arrivals part 2
*Callous Row Ep. 11: Wheeling and Dealing
*Callous Row Ep. 12: Twisted Metal
*Callous Row Ep. 13: David and Goliath
*Callous Row Ep. 14: Shenandoah
*Callous Row Ep. 15: Undulations
*Callous Row Ep. 16: The Cost of Business
*Callous Row Ep. 17: What Family Means
*Callous Row Ep. 18: Death and Taxes
*Callous Row Ep. 19: The Candy Man Can
*Callous Row Ep. 20: Rip and Tear
*Callous Row Ep. 21: Retribution
*Callous Row Ep. 22: Necrosis
*Callous Row Ep. Finale part 1 Necrosis cont.
*Callous Row Ep. Finale part 2 True survivor
==Gallery==
Callous Row - Kee’ra Diamon (Kelli Siren) and Rook (Arcadum).png|Rook and Kee’ra Diamond, the propriety of the Dirty Diamond brothel.
Callous Row Arcadum Oct 19th 2019 40 Fortune Teller Viana Kelesni (MamaBear) visited by Rook (Arcadum).jpg|Entering the tent of Viana Kelesni, the fortune teller.
Arcadum Callous Row Oct 26th 2019 6 Showing Ciara (Mhai) inspects the magical bullets.jpg|Ciara Ní Éabha inspects the magical bullets, stolen from the Quixote corporation
Arcadum Callous Row Oct 26th 2019 15 Carl “8” Clerk (WiFiPunk), Cap'n Angelina Greasepalms (BandAid) and Charles Rask (SilentSock).jpg|Recruiting Carl “8” Clerk, Angelina Greasepalms and Charles Rask.
Arcadum Callous Row Oct 26th 2019 20 Cap'n Angelina Greasepalms (BandAid) and Jack Montagne (SciFri).jpg|The eager "Street Samurai" Angelina Greasepalms and Jack Montagne
Arcadum Callous Row Oct 26th 2019 21 Ais Hestia (Zurui) and Rin Takemikazuchi (KuriRed) and Zabson and Kythus Tolem (Zabson) and Felix Dolore (TheStaven).jpg|Recruting Ais Hestia, Rin Takemikazuchi, Kythus Tolem and Felix Dolore
Arcadum Callous Row Oct 26th 2019 43 AIM-3 (Nekobot) and Static.jpg|Recruting "Sythetics" AIM-3 and Static.
Arc_Callous_Row_Nov_23rd_2019_Rook_talking_to_Talus_Nova.jpg|Talking to Talus Nova
Arca Dec 28th 2019 10 Greasepalms pulls a sword on Celeste (Shanrock) disguised Alfons to the left (TFMJonny) Jack (SciFri) between.jpg|Disarming a fight instigated by Greasepalms towards Celeste.
Arca Dec 28th 2019 18 Rook shooting the Imp Ikelos.jpg|Shooting Ikelos with rubber bullets.
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 4 Plif offers ammunition and speedloaders.jpg|Fandiarius "Plif" Sharborough offers ammunitions, speedloaders and medical supplies in exchange to be apart of a shadowrun mission.
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 10 Rescue mission group Cap Fawkes, Plif, Desmond, Talis, Nash and Warren.jpg|Group joining in. Cap Fawkes, Plif, Desmond, Talus, Nash and Warren.
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 12 Rescue mission group.jpg|Rescue mission group
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 17 Attacking the Shadowbats.jpg|Attacking The Shadowbats
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 22 Nash and Plif Shadowbats attack.jpg|Nash and Plif in the attack.
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 28 Duncyn looses his shit on a Shadowbat.jpg|Duncyn loses his shit on one of the Shadowbats who murdered his Jack.
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 44 Desmond and Alex receptacle bot.jpg|Desmond and A.L.Ex. visit Rooks bar.
Arcad Feb 1st 2020 46 Angelina lost an arm.jpg|Making fun of Angelina, having lost an arm.
Arc Feb 8th 2020 Callous 18 Bo faces the Shadow.jpg|Bo faces the shadow creature and stops it
Arc Feb 8th 2020 Callous 26 Ori's death after being touched by the shadow.jpg|Oriana dies after being touched by a shadow creature.
Arcad CR Feb 15th 2020 5 Synthetics gathering.jpg|Synthetic gathering in the underground of the Row
Arcad CR Feb 15th 2020 10 Leilani (Folkona) want to save Bo.jpg|Leilani asks Rook to please save her friend Bo from kidnapping.
Arcad CR Feb 15th 2020 20 Plif and Felix.jpg|Fandiarius Sharborough and Felix Dolore recruited.
Arcad Callous Mar 14th 2020 37 Nia thinks Cleo died (Hundera PoV).jpg|Nia weeps for Cleo, believing her to be dead.
Arcad Callous Mar 14th 2020 50 Loch tells Rook about the strange vision of the Retribution ship.jpg|Rook puts his trust in Loch, although he explained he heard a dead man speak and saw visions of his old destroyed ship, The Retribution.
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