Skye

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## Lore Description

### Birth and Early Life

(Born to a wealthy noble family in the heart of the Capitol, Skye was always getting into trouble at the boarding schools she attended even as a child. While she presented with great intelligence, her grades were always suffering as she preferred as often as possible to break every rule imaginable. Rules were fine and dandy for others, but for one such as her, they were more a hindrance than for safety.

### Meeting and Joining the Thousand Hands

As a teenager, she one day encountered a member of the Thousand Hands Guild who was a known crime lord in her district. She followed him silently to his home one day and witnessed him torturing one of the city's judges to get a fellow guild member released. The way he tortured and the means by which he carried himself instantly appealed to her. He feared nothing, not even the law for the law was his to rewrite as he saw fit. She was about to announce her presence, when she felt the prick of a sharp claw against her throat. A deep voice asked what she was doing there as the man torturing the judge turned to see what was happening. Stepping out of the darkness now stood Skye, held at the tip of the claws of one of his most trusted members and advisers.

"Lord Zhin, were you torturing the judge to have me released?" Koga asked removing his mask with one hand.

"Indeed, I was, Koga, but now that is finished what have you brought me today, he said eyeing Skye up and down."

With that, Skye smiled and in a flash grabbed Koga's clawed hand before turning and wrapping her legs around Koga's midsection and climbing onto his back forcing his own claws just beneath the ninja's neck. "He didn't bring me Lord...Zhin was it? Oh no, I came of my own accord," she said slyly.

From there she released Koga and before he could retaliate, Zhin stayed Koga's hand. "You intrigue me," he said to the elf. "How long were you witnessing?" he asked her.

Skye then proceeded to recount how she followed him silently before he ever came here. Zhin then praised the girl's resourcefulness and from that day onward took her under his wing and trained her to be an assassin. Teaching her that due to her size, poison would be the best means to fight and to kill as she was often called upon to eliminate targets sometimes several times larger than her. She excelled so much that she was known as the Twilight Assassin and was given a great position of honor at Zhin's side.)

### Koga's Betrayal

(Koga's betrayal story is still pending and will be written by another, but the mention here will be the connection with Skye particularly at the end, when she saves Zhin's life and faces off against Koga effectively driving the Ninja away and banishing him from the Thousand Hands forever.)

### An Ambassador to Karne

(Zhin realized the potential that Skye held. Her lavish heritage and noble ancestry could provide a great deal of influence from the Thousand Hands and could eventually lead to a seat of power within the Magistrate itself. As such, Lord Zhin commissioned Skye to use her family's name and grow close to Magister Karne. With war upon them, Karne was eager to call upon all who were loyal to the Magistrate's cause and Skye's family name still held some favor in the court, mostly due to the Thousand Hands keeping her family's name secure for this very reason one day.

She therefore, entered into Karne's favor quickly becoming one of his closest advisers. However, it was said that she is able to whisper into the Magister's ear the will of her former teacher, Lord Zhin. It is through this alliance that Karne has employed the criminal underground of the Thousand Hands into the Magistrate's cause.)

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