Koruto

## History

Koruto was born in the secluded Hayabusa Village deep within the woods of the Pakar Federation. This region of the Feudal Kobold lands was controlled by the Nedinari royal family and due to their influence a deceptive fighting style was very common to learn for any child that showed promise. Koruto was one of these children selected as his father was a bladesmith who trained him in proper maintenance with weapons and his mother who was a retired Hiretsuna On'na trained him from birth how to be a powerful combatant. Training for many years Koruto honed his skills, but as his power grew his mind broke, the training the Nedinari teach to all would be Iwa is a burden to bear and for most will either clear their mind of all desires, turning them into a perfect killer or kill them during the training. Koruto trained hard to be an Iwa like his mother wanted but he could not clear his mind and from the pressure to succeed he broke, his mind shattered causing him to become obsessed with earthly desires, the thrill of stealing, and the hope for fortune. Koturo suppressed his kleptomania from his family and friends knowing he will have better chances to see fortunes if he can rise in renown,

Koruto became an Iwa sworn in by the Nedinari Royal family leader and was tasked with various jobs to protect the peace and culture of the Feudal Lands, as he traveled the lands with his fellow Iwa he would continue to steal small items unnoticed, first starting by just taking small items of value, then evolving to taking items that had more meaning to someone, he loved the idea of taking something someone could never replace causing them to suffer and search for it forever. During his travels he became closer with an Iwa Furuta and a Hiretsun On'na Naību. Furuta always saw Koruto as a nuisance and often undermined his skill while Naību enjoyed his company and how much soul he seemed to still have in him. After accomplishing many missions together the group was tasked by the Leader of the Nedinari family to kill Ashiishi Salter, the prince of the Sumaka Federation. The group was chosen for their skill and for the fact they would be much lesser known and would rise less suspicious being gone from their homes. While the task was large the group had no choice but to accept and they would set out on their journey to the Sumaka Federation.

Kortuo and his group reached the Sumaka Federation at the dead of night, they were to sneak into the chambers of the sleeping prince and poison him, weakening the Ashiishi family and allowing the Nedinari to attempt to take control. The party snuck through the palace avoiding detection from anyone, eventually reaching Prince Salter's chambers. Once inside Koruto and Furuta entered with Naību keeping watch, Koruto was to set up their escape while Furuta poisoned the prince, but once inside the chambers things changed greatly, instantly Koruto was stunned to see the Ceremonial Championship Belt that Prince Salter was given for winning the Sumaka fighting tournament that secured the Ashiishi power, he couldn't think of a more important item to steal and without thought began walking towards the belt, Furuta unaware of his allies incompetence goes to poison the prince. Koruto nearly reaching the belt firmly grasps it then experiences a vision of himself being caught with the belt and beheaded, taken aback Koruto stumbles slightly, waking the Prince. Prince Salter takes no time to assess his situation and grabs Furuta by the neck then throws him against the wall knocking Furuta unconscious. Koruto realizing his mistake and knowing the look of his guilt runs for the door telling Naību to escape, Naību immediately runs off but before Koruto can reach the door, the Prince grabs him punching him in his stomach and began singing a joyous tune as if this was a nothing fight for him, Koruto scrambled to defend himself but his blade was easily deflected and stabbed back into his right shoulder the Prince grabbed at the belt still grasped in Koruto hands and began to swing the kobold around repeatedly slamming him into the floor. Now extremely dazed Koruto only had one plan to escape, with the Prince guarding the door Koruto bolted for the window but again before he can act the Prince approached him Koruto prepared for another grab but was instead met with a deadly dropkick that sent him flying out the window wildly flailing in the air, Koruto was too beaten to prepare himself for the fall and believed this to be his end as he plummeted to the ground he was again met with a vision of his body slamming onto the ground, his bones breaking, until he lay their for death, Koruto accepted this vision as his fate but again his fate seemed to change as Naību was running right below him, and he slammed into the Hiretsun On'na, breaking her right arm and leg. Koruto stood up seeing his companion reach up for assistance, but Koruto couldn't chance the dead weight, he already escaped death and didn't need someone to else bringing him back to that fate, he reached down to his ally and stole her titanium dagger, then ran off leaving her to surly be captured and killed for her crimes. Making way through the Palace city Koruto was panicked the alarm had been set and the city was on full alert, Koruto was beaten badly from his fight with the prince but his one driving factor is he never lost the Tournament Belt, this alone gave him reason to live as this had to be his greatest steal yet. He snuck around the city avoiding detection again until he was far enough away escaping the Ashiishi Federation.

Once outside the Federation borders Koruto began heading towards the Karrazim mountains, he knew he had royally ruined his mission and would surely be met with death once the Nedinari family knew, so he decided he may be able to escape the Feudal Lands from the Karrazim mountains. As he began heading towards the mountains he was stopped by a low yip behind him. A silver fox that Koruto was barely able to notice sat just behind him staring deeply at him. Koruto was a bit taken aback by this strange creature as it slowly approached him, just as he reached his hand to it he was met with another vision but this one was different from the others he had. Koruto felt himself in a realm of emptiness where all he could see was a large silver fox that started over him. The fox smirked then began to speak to him, "Hello, Koruto I'm glad to finally speak with you. I am Kami No, an Elder that has been fused with your soul as a demand by the Old Gods, I wished to speak with you sooner but you've done well keeping yourself safe all these years, it was only now when you were to experience death was I able to truly connect to you and change your fate. You see I was fused with your soul and thus your death would surely lead to the death of me, since this is a fate we both now wish to avoid. I bartered using your friend's lives as coins to save yours. I want you to know you can feel anyway you wish about my twisted changes of fate but as long as I am fused with you, I refuse to see you die, not until I can release myself from within your soul" After the fox finishes speaking he fades away and Koruto wakes up, on the back of a groundbold, with the silver fox trailing behind again staring deeply at him.

Koruto continued to travel to Karrazim attempting to speak to the fox again but being met with only silence, as he traveled closer he came across a traveling monk who greeted him kindly, Koruto saw potential from this man and quickly made work to mugging him stealing his robes and some potions he had on him, then leaving the monk tied to his cart. Koruto again traveled towards the Karrazim mountains where he was met with kind looks and gracious invites now wearing his monk disguise. Once properly in Koruto snuck out of the Feudal Lands before any of these monks got suspicious of his origin. Now in Thor's realm Koruto was ready for his new life, he didn't have a purpose or even an idea of where to start but decided a good place to start is to make some money so he could at least afford to sleep somewhere, and hopefully traveling will let him learn about the fox spirit that is now tied to his soul.

Koruto spent his time in Thor's Realm being a terrible menace only out for himself, he kept killing and stealing whenever it benefitted him leaving his constant betrayal in his wake. After stealing for so long Koruto ended up in a city of thieves, The UnderUnder, an underground city that was void of all law. Koruto felt at home stealing and lying constantly and nobody would blame him as it was the way of the city. After living in the city for a bit Koruto met Siimus Häyhä a crime boss that lived in the UnderUnder, he came to Koruto to have him join his group Bold Domination. Siimus needed someone ruthless and skilled, and loved how merciless Koruto was even for a city of thieves. Koruto didn't have much going on at the time and decided the group might be a fun way to kill some time and give him some important information he can use to steal some more riches. Now part of Bold Domination Siimus had a job for him right away, he wanted Koruto to steal the Blackhole Suit from Al Saanvi leader of the Shadow Wizard Money Gang, Koruto didn't know much about the group and thought they would just be easy targets so he began his mission for the Blackhole Suit heading to the SWMG's hideout tower sneaking his way in.

Koruto assumed it would be easy he didn't think it was going to be an empty dark looking tower, he snuck around the tower but lowered his guard since there didn't seem to be anyone around. Koruto kept walking the tower but it just seemed to get darker and darker the more he searched until he saw the Blackhole Suit sitting plaining on a coat rack, Koruto snickered to himself thinking this wizard gang must be a bunch of fools to leave something this valuable just lying there as he walked up reaching for the suit, the darkness of the suit turned towards him and a robed figure jumped out at him. Koruto was instantly terrified and drew his weapons but the robed man began mumbling about his love for magic as he unleashed a flurry of magic at Koruto, when Koruto dodged he saw more figures come out of the darkness, and Koruto was quickly surrounded. As the wizards bombarded him with spells they began chanting a terrifying tune to Koruto, now beaten on the ground one more wizard in a purple robe approached Koruto placing their hand on his head then screaming at him as Koruto fell unconscious. Koruto woke up in a foggy desert filled with black sand, he couldn't see anything around him but after a quick check of his pockets seemed everything was still on his person so Koruto gave a quick stretch and began his travels in this barren wasteland, his fox manifested next to him and Koruto began speaking to it as if it was responding back to him, the fox seemed to know how to escape this desert so Koruto followed it and followed it and followed it more, endlessly he walked the black desert speaking to the fox and passing countless numbers of skeletons that wondered this wasteland. After spending what felt like a lifetime in the desert Koruto finally found himself back in the normal realm, he directed himself back towards the UnderUnder now with an even more intense need for the Blackhole Suit, but upon reaching the SWMG's base he was once again jumped and banished to the desert.

Koruto raging mad began wildly kicking sand and breaking small skulls he found around him, all the commotion he created caught the eye of a traveler on riding a small caravan, the traveler came up to Koruto and called out to him asking if the heat had gotten to him offering some water for the kobold, Koruto calmed himself for a second then reached for the water, as the man moved close Koruto pulled his blade from his side stabbing the man in the eye then kicking him off his caravan, bucking the groundbold tied to the caravan and running past the man as he was left bleeding in the desert. Koruto was annoyed greatly with anger and needed to steal something to calm himself down so while the groundbold ran endlessly in the desert he slipped into the caravan to pilfer his rewards. Sadly the caravan seemed more goaled towards survival and resource gathering so there was mostly food and water with only a few interesting item, such as a elephelk tusk that seemed very finely crafted, Koruto realized he robbed a cargo caravan that was just meant to resources to towns nearby which only annoyed him more, he searched more in depth for anything special but only found more food and some letters, reading the letters most were receipts and maps of the area, but one letter stood out to Koruto, it was a hastily written letter that was addressed to Dayus Twun which didn't match the name from the receipts he was going through, reading the letter revealed this Dayus was invited to attend a party at the kingdom of the Eccohlet, Koruto didn't know much about this kingdom but a party means a distraction and a kingdom means a treasure vault full of valuables, so he prepared for his heist.

Koruto followed the directions to the Eccholet Kingdom of Abair Aris and began scouting, Koruto realized this was a Dwarven kingdom meaning he will stick out horribly, so he needed a better way in then just sneaking, during his scouting he heard talk about a band coming to perform during their party, this was a perfect chance to blend in with them. Koruto waited for the band to arrive and quickly jumped onto their caravan, grabbing a shirt with the bands logo and throwing it on, then walking along side the caravan going unnoticed by the guards. Once inside Koruto played the part of a roadie and helped move some gear then got ready to sneak off, before he got away though he was stopped by the band's singer Lenny, Koruto worried he would find out he isn't a roadie tried playing it off as he was a huge fan and came all the way from the other side of the realm just to see him in person! Lenny seemed a little struck by this but wanting to please a fan started talking with him. While they talked Koruto really felt a connection with this guy, he was cocky, full of himself, and a perfect target to be used as a fall guy. Koruto ended the conversation and got his shirt signed and said he is gonna get some drinks to celebrate after the show, Lenny waved him off and Koruto got to his plan, he located the vault prepped with with explosives then sat in on the show waiting for the finale. Koruto waited in the shadows, then after the show met up with Lenny again.

Lenny was busy signing autographs for the dwarves but Koruto was able to sway him away for a moment by telling him he needs help bringing some special drinks over. Lenny excited follow Koruto who is talking about how much he enjoyed the show when they reach the vault door, Lenny speaks up "Where's the drinks man?" as he speaks Koruto lights his explosives blowing the vault open ducking down as stone flies everywhere hitting Lenny knocking him down for a moment, Koruto drags him into the vault then begins looting quickly, he grabs some gold filling a small bag but is stopped in his track when he see a small cat lying in a small bed staring at him, Koruto was ecstatic seeing the chance to steal something not only rare but also emotionally valuable to the king, he snuck over and quickly threw a sack over the cat then begin to head out of the vault, leaving Lenny but Lenny wasn't where he left him, the Forn grabbed Koruto throwing him to the ground demanding answers before the Forn could lay his fist into him more Koruto spoke up "Hey I know you're mad but we are about to have a whole horde of them drunk Dwarves and they are gonna kill first and ask questions later so we gotta go!" Lenny stayed pinning him as the steps approached, "Why the hell would I believe you again, you already tricked me and for what?" Lenny yelled, "Trust me this will make perfect sense but we need to leave so I can explain why it does!" Koruto spoke. Lenny stayed for a bit longer then reluctantly got off Koruto, who immediately threw a stick of explosive at the back of the vault wall breaking a hole they could use to escape into the town. Koruto moved through then reached out his hand to Lenny "Come on now, grab your gold and lets head out" Lenny annoyed grabbed some gold then snubbed Koruto's hand away leaving the vault and heading towards the town. As the two pushed through the town it was clear the guards were on high alert, searching for anyone carrying treasures they shouldn't have. Koruto led Lenny to a blacksmithing shop where the two found a bit of respite. Lenny mad at Koruto sits silently while Koruto pulls out some food and offers it to the Forn, Lenny ignores his offer and just keeps sitting there. "You know you make yourself too easy of a target for people like me" Lenny gave Koruto the most vile stare and got up to hit him when a guard busted into the forge, seeing a Forn grabbing a Kobold by the neck and see all the gold surrounding them immediately went for the attack. Lenny dropped Koruto then jumped to the side, as the Dwarf came down on Koruto who could only raise his arms in defiance, as he did he saw a vision showing the Dwarf decapitating him then heading for Lenny, Koruto slightly moved his head back dodging the kill but still losing his left hand from the swing of blade, which also cut a rope tied near them causing a loud smash into the floor. The Dwarf shocked looked over to see an anvil dropped on the head of the Forn. Koruto took advantage of his shock stabbing him in the neck with his bone stub killing the Dwarf.

After looking over to his temporary companion Koruto ran off sneaking away into a nearby alley so he could bandage his wounds. Koruto dove into a pile of trash ripping his clothes to make a tourniquet for his arm, as he was wrapping it up Lenny approached from the shadows. Koruto goes slightly on the defensive using his arm to quietly search for something sharp enough to defend himself while he talked Lenny down "Lenny my man you made it, how's the head feeling?" Lenny just stood there for a moment then spoke "Who the hell are you?" Koruto lied there a bit confused, then joyously spoke up "Lenny, buddy did that anvil knock out something important you really don't remember me?" Lenny thought deeply into himself but couldn't find this kobold in his memories "No what happened to me I can't remember anything?" Koruto smiled to himself, as if the gods were once again blessing him with a perfect outcome, he took his gift happily. "Lenny buddy you messed up big, you stole the King's cat and now the whole kingdom is after your head man, but don't worry you one and only friend Koruto is here to save you. I got the cat stashed in this bag and we are gonna get out of here!" Koruto lied to the Forn feeling such immense joy from his deception. Lenny stood there for a moment while he couldn't comprehend the story as it seemed so insane but he didn't have any other memory in his head. "I really fucked this one up, what are we gonna do dude!" Lenny finally coughed up. Koruto gets up with his still bleeding stump of an arm and said "Just follow my lead we these Dwarves are pretty out of it so we just gotta be quick and sneaky" Koruto started his sneak through the city with Lenny attempting to follow him with a his lack of the skill, lucky for Lenny the Dwarves were drunk and any that seemed to spot them was quickly taken out by Koruto, not out of a companionship for Lenny but since Koruto saw more use in having him alive. The two thieves working together made it out for the city with their lives and with plenty of money to make it the only thing they needed.

After the successful heist Koruto and Lenny became a sort of partnership with Koruto using Lenny whenever he needed and gaining a large sum of gold from it all. While escaping from their last successful job Lenny spoke up to Koruto, "Hey Koruto, I'm getting pretty sick of ditching towns over and over again and carrying all the loot is getting really old too, we need to find something to spend this gold or we are gonna steal more than we can handle." Koruto sat there for a moment and the idea of stealing something without being able to keep it scared him so deeply within his core, he agreed with Lenny "Alright you might have a point here, I didn't want to do this but, we got offered a job a while ago and its a bit of an investment, we dedicate some time and a bunch of money but the pay off is great." Lenny looked over at Koruto confused "Why the hell didn't you speak up sooner about this man?" Koruto looked a bit embarrassed then admitted "This is my treasure and I wasn't gonna let some Gnome use it for his 'Great Investment', but you got a point we can't keep carrying it all around, I'll send a raven and we can meet with him" Koruto signed out the end of his sentence, he had been stealing without a group for a while and didn't want to get weighed down but he accepted this sacrifice as it meant he would have even more reason to steal. Koruto prepared a raven to Watt Mogg a gnome nerd who gave him coordinates to their new base near Roetown.

Koruto and Lenny made their way to Roetown so they could meet with Watt Mogg and Tom, once there they discussed the needs of each other and came to an agreement. Koruto and Lenny were officially members of Watt and Tom's group, Koruto began working more "honorable" jobs such high level bodyguarding, repossession of assets, and some light work that pertained to his skills, where Lenny used some of his innate skills to to find his singing again performing for those around Roetown earning a fair sum for the group. While Koruto acted more civil he still couldn't stop his stealing and would continue to do so at the risk of everything in his life.

## Characteristics

### Personality

Koruto's morale compass is completely destroyed he has spent his entire life stealing, lying, cheating, and betraying any and everyone. He can show moments of "selflessness" and comradery but these are only momentarily as he plots to use others for bigger plans.

## Relationships

Lenny Thornwood - Lenny is Koruto's current plan, he thinks he can get more use out of Lenny alive than dead and has been manipulating him since he lost his memory.

Huge Wart - Koruto is a big fan of how easy it is to trick Huge and loves to steal things from him to later gift him the items again in exchange for favors. Huge is Koruto's go to for intimidation.

Tom - Not many people have Koruto's trust and even Tom only has a light amount, Koruto sees a lot of potential in Tom and an even larger amount of fear from the power he holds.

Watt Mogg - Koruto and Watt are mostly business as Watt doesn't want to hear much about how he makes coin and Koruto isn't interested in the reason behind Tom's power.

Muer'stel - N/A

## Character Inventory

* Class / Petalwalker
* Cornerstone / Assassin
* Attribute / Seeker of Knowledge

Passives* Passive / Laser Eye Surgery
* Passive / Veteran

Abilities* Class / Dawn Calls
* Class / Withering Sunset
* Class / Maneater
* Class / Leech Life
* Roleplay Spell / Appraise

Former* Any Traits/Abilities/Supplies lost during the Campaign
* Weapon / Titanium Greatsword
* Weapon / Golden Revolver
* Treasure / Elaphelk Tusk
* Treasure / Invisibility Potion
* Treasure / Invisibility Potion
* Treasure / Invisibility Potion

Companions* Companion / Copycat
* Companion / Elder
* Companion Ability / False Orders
* Companion Ability / Barter
* Companion Passive / Cat got your Tongue
* Companion Passive / Silver Tongued

Former* Anything you lost/Broke/or just misplaced during the campaign.