Augustus

Known as Piccolo Wright to his allies, until he let slip what his true name was. A man shrouded in mystery and bad luck.
Raised in an orphanage, not knowing his family, not having control over his powers,  August never truly  felt at home.
 He ran away on his 13th birthday.
Determined to find his real family, real identity and real destiny in these worlds.
But trouble always seems to find Augustus, even now after 10 years of tough training and specializing his powers, bad luck still haunts him like his own shadow.

Augustus isn’t the best at surviving on his own. Before the party found him he tried to make a living by playing his lute and by selling vulnerable information he gathered by stealing, overhearing or spying.
But even there bad luck and or trouble found him and it didn’t last long before Augustus ended up in a cell.
Now to wipe away his massive debt, he serves his generous benefactor Marcus.

Trying to gather the information Augustus needed, he went undercover and shaped a persona known as Piccolo Wright, local Bard/Entertainer and that’s how the party met him.
Knowing that he had to travel into dangerous areas to finally fulfill his mission, he convinced (begged) the party to take him with them.
Augustus even tried to start a fake relationship with a diplomat named Daniel to gather more and specific information for his mission.
But the faking part failed and Augustus felt in love with the diplomat after only knowing him for a few days.

Augustus is quick with the tongue, not so good with the sword. He will always try to look for a “diplomatic” way to solve his problems. Augustus’ favorite tactics are “Tactical retreat” and “Lying”.
He’s loyal to his friends and people he considered as family. Augustus is overprotective about his hat and lute, due the fact that they were given to him by his father.

Is allergic to nuts. (DEEZ NUTS)

# **Spoiler**

Augustus discovered how powerful lying was in the orphanage on Vhaemuid where he grew up.  He was one of the few kids that didn’t know their parents and the reason why they left him in the orphanage. This made him an easy prey for bullies and that left Augustus with no friends.
To prevent further taunting and harassments, Augustus forged a letter when he was 8 years old and claimed that his parents wrote it to him.  It was a simple letter, telling the mighty tales of a Ser Tannison Wright, a noble knight that fought monsters with a flaming sword, he had honor and fought for justice.  Beside all his high and mighty titles he was Augustus' ‘made up’ dad. And in the letter he ‘told’ his son, that he was sorry for leaving him behind in the orphanage, but that he did not have the time to raise a child (‘if you live a dangerous life like me son, you will understand why I left you there’), but the noble knight also made a promise in the letter, telling his ‘son’ that he will be back before Augustus’ 13th birthday.

 ‘So that we could travel and explore the worlds together like a family.’  Maybe Augustus hoped he was adopted before his 13th birthday. Maybe Augustus hoped he was sold to some local farmer as a servant. Or maybe Augustus really hoped his imaginary knighted dad showed up before that time.  The night before his 13th birthday, knowing that nobody showed up before his self-made deadline, he ran away.

After a few days of traveling he found a city and trouble in the form of a small band of thugs, full of 16 year old street kids, ready to rob Augustus for the little that he had on him.  They were surprised that the 13 y/o didn’t show any signs of fear and even begged them to take him with them. After some consideration, they took him in.

Augustus' first heist was a disaster, leaving enough time for the other kids to get away from the crime scene. And that’s where they got an idea, how the unlucky Augustus could in fact help them.  They taught Augustus how to distract shop owners, crowds and even taverns full of people. While the people where distracted by Augustus pretending that he broke a leg, started to sing out of nowhere, asking people if they saw his parents, the band of thugs robbed the crowed blind.

But around his 15th birthday, Augustus started to change. Well, his face started to change. First it was just the small details like, freckles appearing and disappearing in a span of hours.   But the changes got bigger and bigger. The thug leader was convinced that they had a face-eating demon in their midst when Augustus woke up with a whole different face.

So to ditch this ‘face-eating demon’, they set up an trap, leaving Augustus behind when the guards showed up and didn’t help him when he called out for them.   It was in prison where Augustus met a Ganrim for the first time, a Ganrim with the name Marcus, who told him that his powers was nothing to be afraid of. It was a part of him and he, Marcus, could teach him how to control these powers.

 Augustus accepted to be Marcus' apprentice.

It was during his training he learned that Marcus had another student named Cassius. Augustus had a hard time mastering his powers, while Cassius was a natural talent in shaping their face.  Also Cassius seemed to get special 1 on 1 training. Augustus always hoped his adoptive parent would like him and the fact that he had to share him with an better sibling made him jealous.

# **Spoiler**

After 10 years of training and walking in Cassius' shadow, Augustus had enough. He told Marcus he would find his own fortune on his own and that he would be the first person to find all the Dragon Moons gemstones (which Marcus was looking for).  Eventually he also ran away from this place.   After a year or traveling, Augustus gathered enough information to find the first Dragon stone he was looking for. Sutramand’s gemstone, which was located on Rhyelatha for an unknown reason.
But his contact unfortunately died that evening and Augustus was the last person seen with her.  So Augustus, with his bad luck, got framed for the mysterious death. And for the second time in his life Augustus ended up in a cell.  And for the second time in his life, he met Marcus while he was in prison.

 Marcus told him, it would be hard to get Augustus out of here. That they had to frame another person if Augustus wanted to walked the worlds like a free man. Augustus remembered his contact’s son, Piccolo. So he made a deal with Marcus. Piccolo would get framed instead of Augustus and Augustus would be a free man again. Then Augustus could repay Marcus’s sum of money and favors in finding Sutramand’s gemstone for him.

## The Golden Willow:

After being awkwardly reunited with his foster dad, they finally  finished the ritual for Daniel.
That ended up in a confusing and fiery discussion and Augustus broke up with the diplomat while Daniel didn’t even know that they were in a relationship together.
On the same evening, Augustus learned from Nova that his better, rival/brother Cassius passed away in a fight some days ago.
Not sure what to do with the situation, Gus (while being drunk) promised XQ and Mirus that he would never leave their side as a foster dad (also encourage XQ to demolish things and telling Mirus to hide the gemstone from Marcus, if he still had it).

He learned about Mirus' amnesia. So he gathered a party of friends and family and was determined to solve this mystery (while also convincing himself that he would win some of Marcus' approval if he could solve it without his father's help).

— Iohannan — Kor — Laina — Luciano — Maeve — Mirus —
— Novacarius — Radha — Tiana — Wilhelm — XQ-305 —

— Isaac — Pyka-Rai — Syndroska —

— Thulian† — Rahakh — Fortemus† — Francesco — Vladicus —