Archie Grimes

Smattered applause fades as muttering quietens. The orchestra drones as the white-robed old man filters out again through the red curtain onto the stage, clutching his crown of thorns. With an outstretched hand, he implores the room to lend him their ears, as painted matinées turn on ropes behind him. Bravely, the young hero brandishes his fist to the enraptured audience, his denouncements echoing through the hall. Archie Grimes leans back in his seat, sipping his Cessalia. Tiny bubbles gather in the ridges of the glass as he sets it down again, smiling to himself. Onstage, the old man cries *Alas!* once more and drops to his knees, the young hero drawing back his glinting knife dripping with fake blood. Slowly, the hairs on Archie’s neck bristle, as cold metal brushes up against the back of his head. He stiffens slightly, stifling a breath. As the young hero flings his arms out to the audience, a woman’s voice whispers into Archie’s ear. Hero and villain speak as one.‘Thus always to tyrants.’As an orchestral drum resounds through the hall and kicks off thunderous applause, the old man crumples. -Archie is assassinated.
Archie 'Six-Finger' Grimes was a human thief from Waterdeep. He grew up in the Narrows as an urchin kid, born in 1515. He scraped a living as a cutpurse.
He slowly worked his way up, earning scars in power struggles and scraps.
In 1529ish, his big break came when he and several others responded to the 'Red Hawk Down' incident. Archie and the others managed to crush a large group of Thavians in the tunnels beneath the southern walls. 
He managed to help lead the underground thieves of the city alongside other leaders, and was their middleman for 'legitimate' business. Having bested the thief Fyra, he became the rightful wielder of Alkibiades' Kopis.
During the Oracle crisis of 1560-1, Archie led his thieves as a partisan resistance group, providing the hideouts for the resistance led by Maxwell Loveridge, Warad, Robin Knox, Renaer Neverember and the Night Watch. Along with two Matadór-wielding thieves, he personally held the employees of the Waterdeep Commercial Company in a friendly hostage situation until they broadcast his message, but the bombardment began right away.
After the city became Halcyon, and the Convocation of Waterdeep was dissolved, Archie continued his duties as the leader of all thieves.
On New Year's Eve 1565, he was attending a play at the Halcyon Opera House when he was shot in the back of the neck by a hidden assailant. The only evidence recovered was a King Mazander Over-Under flintlock pistol engraved with a snake. 
In his wake, the thief Valeria took over. 
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