Taz Du'Arn

"I have the Fastest Hands here."

## History

Rags to Riches, Zero to Hero. Stories of peons clawing their way up from the depths of squalor saturate human myths and folklore. A young man, Taz, from village of Arn on the edge of Crystal lake near the Vals Pass is one such story, born and dropped on the doorstep of an orphanage that burned down when he was five. Leaving the blonde boy to fend for himself with the rest of the Urchins. Even before the infighitng started Taz lost many friends and cohorts to the troubles of homeless as they were beset by injury disease, starvation, and persecution. Arn was not a friendly place to homeless children. In stories this is where the homeless children would band together and lift each other from poverty, that is how it started but reality is much more revolting as the children slowly became tribal and turned on each other, a sort of young gang war broke out, betrayals and secret alliances brought a bloody end to the group of survivors once blood was spilled. Taz was not a hero of this bloodbath, he was simply a survivor.

Wanting to put the carnage behind him and now old enough to travel, Taz took his first legitimate job as a cabin boy, but was quickly ousted from the post when he wasn't the type to appease all of the officer's requests, instead the boy was placed on the rigging crew, and through rain or shine he found a home in the crows nest before arriving in Eternal Blockade with hardly a gold to his name.

## Appearance

Taz Du'Arn is a human male with a height of five foot, eleven inches with a very athletic build, weighing in at a mighty one-hundred seventy-one pounds. He has inquisitive amber eyes and loose blonde hair usually tied back by some form of scarf or bandanna. He wears loose fitting clothing to include sturdy leather boots and gloves. He can usually be found playing with or toying with some kind of small blade, or knife, usually a cruciform style dagger.

## Personality

Taz Du'Arn is unusually friendly and as energetic as a young man can be, he's a little naive, and unusually honest for an urchin and pick-pocket. However in stark contrast he can buck those feelings in the blink of an eye and become a stone cold killer, able to sink a knife into an unaware back without hesitation. Call it a product of trauma or perhaps the instincts of a survivor, Taz is nothing if not pragmatic when it comes to finishing up business. That said Taz isn't above turning tail and running from a hopeless event or fight if the odds seem insurmountable, after all you only live once.

## Loves

Taz is a hedonist, he loves things that feel good, drinking fine beverages, eating delicious food, the "company" of beautiful women, very simple pleasures, the thrill of slipping an unnoticed hand into an unsuspecting passer-by's pocket. The feel of a cold steel dagger in his hands, the flash of steel in the sunlight as he spins it around his fingers.

## Fears

Taz is afraid of losing what little he's gained since realizing his mark of destiny, Not wanting to give up what little bit of a good life he'd achieved in the time being. Deep down inside Taz is afraid that all his fighting for survival, and clawing his way out of the gutter will be for nothing if he doesn't keep clawing his way out.

## Hobbies

Taz is a philanderer, and a drunkard. He is also an adventurer when he can find an opening or join other souls in their quest for riches and power. But above and beyond that, Taz is a knife fiend. He loves the little blades, and believes they are the best weapon. He almost always has at least one handy, but likely many more nearby. He spends his idle time with a dagger in his hand, spinning it, tossing it, flipping it, twirling it between his fingers.

## Family

Taz has no family currently, he has no intention to start a nuclear family. However he is starting to realize that those adventurers in the community can be his family.

## Friends

Taz enjoys a friendly relationship with Reimei, the two having met and hit it off rather quickly. Taz has also been recruited to be a pirate by Estelle, whom he considers a friend.

## Enemies

Taz tries to make sure his enemies are dead, and avoids making enemies with any being that he can't kill with just a knife. So far Taz has done a good job at not making any specific enemies.

## Aspirations

Taz is looking to make a good life for himself, to establish the one thing he never had in his life. Stability. He sees adventuring as a path to that stability as he has few other skills to make it to that state of being. Materialistically Taz is also trying to collect even more daggers, especially those from exotic cultures and made of exotic materials.