Character Profile: Obedias Sin, 30, 4ft, 45lbs
Race: Halfling
Profession: Criminal/Assassin
Excerpts from CoS Hardcover:
A high ranking minion of Strahd was keeping eye on our little halfling and wants to turn him over to Strahds side. The minion kidnaps an ally of Obedias, and forces him to join their side. As proof of this the minion wants Obedias to kill the gang.
Celes, tarou, ozy, benby. Everybody
It was like obed's first kill... His own brothers.
Romm, the slayer of kings is his father. And Romm was obsessed with creating the perfect assassin... Just like him. He had 7 sons. Obedias was the youngest. Romm trained them all in the art of death dealing. Romm was vicious and cruel, but in each other's company the brothers found peace.
Eventually they grew to be the best of the best.
But till the end their father did not let them kill. He had something far worse in mind. Romm placed each of his sons under a powerful spell. A geas. To force them to kill each other or die if they refused.
They had till the end of the night...
Unwilling to end each of their siblings life, the brothers thought of ways around the situation. They became desperate. They fought amongst themselves, until the eldest son thought of a way out... They couldn't kill each other, and the spell would kill them all if more than one survived the night... The group reached a consensus...
They save one
Obedias Sin.
Youngest son of Romm
One by one his brothers bid their beloved bunso good bye. Bidding him the best. To brush his teeth. To find a girl he could love with all his heart. And to kill their demon father. They then all fell to their own blades. As the first light of dawn breaks the darkness, only a single sound could be heard in the heart of the forest. The cries of a young boy wailing in despair. The halfling boy, born in blood, Obedias Sin, last son of Romm.
He snaps back into the present as he drags himself into their room in the inn. Everybody was there, except Aramil.... The cursed vampire has him hostage...
Celes, in the corner drinking her tea. Taytay trying on her new dress, tarou and ozy on the table near the fire place discussing their plans looking for the lady in red, and benby trying to memorize a new spell...
*It would be kill or be killed* he thought to himself...
*It would be easier if I killed tarou and ozy first... The others wouldn't even see me coming*
Then Obedias remembers the time they had together...
Celes' awkward hug telling him that there is more to life than whoring, tarou's bossiness, his drunk times with ozy, the time he hid beneath benbies clothes'....
He clenched his fist tight... He couldn't do it...
Obedias walks out of the inn to meet up with the forces of Strahd to talk. He says he'd do it. He'd kill the gang. But only if they give him the pleasure of killing Aramil himself. They agreed. They left Aramil to him, but Obedias let him escape. He knew they couldn't escape both with such overwhelming odds. So Obedias stayed to distract them. They laughed at obed. A halfling vs a horde of vamps. They mocked him telling him that what he did was useless. They would turn him into a vampyr and make him watch as they killed everyone of his friends. A millennia or two. Obed would not even remember his friends
He wouldn't even remember his name.
Obedias laughed at this and this thought.
He smiles at his captors... And draws his weapon...
He shouts with a mighty voice against the forces of the undead " NOW, MY DEBT IS REPAID!"
Obedias stabs himself in the neck and slices his own neck.
Obedias drops his torch onto himself... And the oil Obedias doused himself in starts to burn his small body.
The vampyr relents... They wouldn't be able to do anything to save the body... They leave the charred remains of Obedias Sin on the snow... Pissed by the thought that a halfling has gotten the better of them , they return to whatever dark depths they crawled out off...
... But this is not where the story of our halfling ends.
*image http://wiki.fallensword.com/index.php/Halfling_Rogue*
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