Jericho Nassif

Jericho wielding his signature repeating crossbow.

**Jericho Nassif** is a Suli rogue working as a master assassin for the Toroszek Resistance, operating undercover in Imperium-occupied Toroszek. While skilled in stealth, Jericho often found himself in combat situations, usually operating in a support role using his skill with the crossbow. When his ranged skills failed him or he needed to mop up a situation, he would usually draw his blades - of which he carried many - to engage in swift and decisive hand-to-hand strikes. Throughout the war between the Imperium and the Resistance forces, Jericho was spoken of in hushed whispers by Malkenian troops, called the "*Grim Dealer*" due to his sadistic penchant for shooting all of his targets, but only killing the ones he needed to be killed, leaving their comrades to survive albeit wounded.

## History

Jericho was born in the slums of Imperium-occupied Kashika. Growing up destitute, with his father dying from illness when he was 7 years old and his mother being crippled, he quickly learned that if he and his family was going to survive he would have to turn to crime. For years, Jericho honed his skills as a petty thief, stealing food and medicine from markets and unattended carts to feed his family.

At age 16, Jericho decided to attempt to pickpocket an Imperial officer, however he was caught in the act. After a short chase, he was arrested and tortured by Malkenian soldiers, who would cut his cheeks and mouth to create a permanent frown-like scar; from this point onwards, Jericho would always wear a mask over his lower face to hide this disfigurement. After torturing him and finding out where his family lived, the Imperials dragged Jericho to his family's ramshackle slum house and shot both his mother and his younger brother - 43 and 9, respectively - dead in front of him. Following this execution, they released Jericho, who had to attend to his dead family.

Left without a family nor friends to turn to, and the seed of burning hatred for the Imperium in his heart, Jericho found himself falling in with a crime syndicate in the underground of Kashika. He was trained as a thief first, but after a botched robbery where he snapped the neck of an innocent woman, he was reassigned to be a hitman for the syndicate. In order to simply make enough money to buy food, Jericho would regularly have to kill relatively innocent people, suffering under the exact same regime he was. Committing these heinous deeds, Jericho would find himself becoming more and more skilled with his weapons. He began to prefer his repeating crossbow over firearms due to its quieter nature, and refined his bladework. Inevitably, however, his time as a murderer would come to an end - his crime syndicate's headquarters would be raided by Imperial forces, and he would be arrested.

Thrown into a jail cell to await his execution, Jericho would spend weeks waiting to be inevitably walked out onto the gallows. However, that day would never come. A Resistance attack on the fort he was imprisoned in saw him not only freed from his chains, but accepted into the Resistance's ranks as an assassin. From here, Jericho would turn a new leaf, and start his journey of revenge against the Imperium - hiding his dark past from his new allies in order to focus on defeating their common foe.

## Personality

Jericho was a man who had seen much death in his life, and taken many lives. A burning fire of revenge burned within him, inspiring him to fight for the Resistance and defeat the Malkenian Imperium. He would kill easily without any regret, and had an extremely sadistic streak to him as he would assassinate Malkenian officers and soldiers alike, inspiring the most pain possible before they died. Jericho was also a kleptomaniac, in part due to his childhood - he would impulsively steal small foodstuffs and medicines without a second thought.

For the most part, Jericho was quiet and reserved. However, when it came to killing Malkenian soldiers, he became extremely competitive when working in a team. Oftentimes, he would bet to his teammates that he could kill for Imperials than them, and whoever killed the least on that mission would owe him a drink. Despite his dark past, his thirst for revenge burned brighter, and he would oftentimes assist people who found themselves in trouble with Malkenians if he could - regardless if they were Resistance fighters or not.

## Friends and Enemies

Jericho did not keep many friends. While he was a member of the Toroszek Resistance, almost all interactions he had were purely professional. However, he did occasionally spark conversations with others.