Leo

Character Profile
Name	Leo(Robin Moore)
Gender	Male
Race	Pure Blood
Class	Thief
Age	21
Religion	none
Played By	Greg

Robin Moore started simple in life, he was born an only child and he started learning his fathers trade of a carpenter as soon as he could hit two sticks together (well it was more his dad told him and he gurgled appreciatively). At when he was sixteen his father died and he took up the family business to support him and his mother. He married Dianne, he childhood sweetheart, at 17. He can still remember his mother’s happy face at the wedding, though that was darkened by her death two months later.

Things went smoothly over the next 3 or 4 years, he learnt how to make carts from a friend, and often helped with the woodwork of houses. Also the couple were gifted with a baby boy, Samuel they named him (after his father). But shamefully things went badly wrong.

He had asked to make some items of furniture for the local ruler and once completed he went to his residences to ask for help delivering the goods. The house was rather quiet though, the porter didn’t answer the door and there were no maids to be seen anywhere (the ruler had quite a thing for his maids), so he let himself in and started looking for the ruler. He found him dead in the dining room with a dagger in his back and Vernon (the rulers son) looking smugly at the corpse. Vernon looked surprised to see him, he probably hadn’t expected to be disturbed, but after some very quick thinking Vernon picked up something and beat Robin unconscious with it.

When Robin came to he was covered in blood, the ruler s blood, and now it was his dagger that was in the rulers back. Robin didn’t know what to do, he stumbled out and went home, it seemed the natural thing to do, but there he found more blood. He found the kitchen door broken open, his Dianne dead on the floor, deep dagger wounds over her body and Samuel in her arms unmoving, also soaked in blood. He couldn’t even bare to touch her, tears ran down his face as he looked around. There was a note on the floor, bloodstained with shaky writing on it, it read: ‘I write these words because I know I don’t have long left, Robin has gone crazy, I know he is going to kill me, I’ve locked him out of the kitchen, but the door isn’t going to last long I just hope I can protect Samuel.’ It was Dianne’s handwriting.

Things made sense now his dagger in the rulers back, the blood all over him, Dianne and Samuel murdered, a note from him wife saying he killed her. He had been framed, with such evidence he wouldn’t even get a trial, he would be killed, on sight if he resisted. He thought quickly, he grabbed the family savings from under the loose floorboard, grabbed clothing and some food, and threw the stuff into the caravan he had made to take Dianne and Samuel on a holiday next year. As he did this he heard shouts from the rulers house, he didn’t have long. He hooked up a horse to the caravan jumped on and urged it into a run. He took one last look at where he was so content, as he sped out of the town.

Back in the house, unknown to Robin, Samuel’s little chest slowly rose and fell.

Over the next few weeks Robin had to keep on the move, Vernon had sent some thugs to “revenge his father’s death”, but Robin knew it was just to shut him up in case he talked. There were many close calls but he managed to stay alive, he started applying his knowledge in woodwork to making traps and suchlike which helped immensely. The whole thing got to him though, he found it increasingly hard to sleep, and after a while he would go for days without sleeping, also he would often wake up in the middle off night from nightmares involving blood, his wife, and his son. This was solved by a kindly old gentleman who sold Robin some seeds and a book on how to brew the plants into a potion to help him sleep, there were a couple more interesting things in the book as well. Using the name Robin became no longer possible so he starting going by the name Leo, it was easy and it didn’t stand out too much.

It soon became apparent though that he couldn’t continue to carry on like this. The savings were quickly being depleted on food and paying people to forget they had ever seen him, and the horse while it was holding out well, could not hold out forever, and he certainly didn’t have the money for another. As he reached the town of Aberddu he thought he would stop here and work for a while if not permanently.

Aberddu seemed to be the focal point of the Albion vs. Frysia war, a perfect place to disappear is a war. So Leo hid the caravan just outside of the town and walked in. Walking around the city looking around, Leo noticed that plenty of the city buildings were in ruin, there would be a lot of work available when they started fixing them up. But there was also the Adventurers Guild, it caught Leo’s eye. It would a more long term employment. Besides he had been getting quite good at this adventuring stuff, well near enough. Just as Leo made up his mind up he noticed his pursuers moving along the street, he would have to loose them first. Leo left a note in the guild about joining and headed out.

After a couple of days, a few traps and a lot of luck Leo managed to loose his pursuers on the road to Albion, and made his way back to Aberddu. He would go and join properly on Thursday…