Orakan

[Orakan]

basic information

Name Orakan Khendras
Alias Ora/One-Eye Ora
Age & Sex 21 & Male
Race Human
Height & Weight 1.80m (5'11") & 77kg (170lbs)
Sexuality Asexual
Origin Sunberth
Date of Birth Summer 43, 497 AV
Current Residence Sunberth
Occupation Daggerhand brother & thug
Alignment Neutral Evil

character concept

“'It still seems a strange decision, though, for the tortured to turn torturer.'
'On the contrary, nothing could be more natural. In my experience,
people do as they are done to.'”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

Impressionable and damaged whoreson and gutter rat turned fear-mongering Daggerhand thug, Ora is well versed in the ways of the streets. He's most focused on surviving and maintaining what little hold his gang has left on Sunberth. Although neutral evil at heart, he has yet to develop much in the way of personal ambition and is currently content with his pack mentality.

physical description

Ora is hardly remarkable in appearance for a Sunberthian and easy to overlook from a distance. Somewhat swarthy, his dark olive skin darkens considerably in the warmer seasons, face and shoulders heavily freckled and pigmented because of the amount of time he has spent outside and around the wharf. His hair is brown yet mousy from the sun and he keeps it short and out of the way.

Having been living a more comfortable life since his induction into the Daggerhands, Ora is on the stockier side, barrel-chested and broad shouldered with a little softness around his middle. However, the scars that riddle his shoulders, back and arms prove that he's had it just as rough as the average Sunberth denizen and only add to his burgeoning air of intimidation. He has duck-syndrome - legs disproportionately short compared to the rest of his body - which lends him an rather bullish appearance.

His face is boyish and would seem gentle if not for his perpetual glare and frown - a stark contrast to the roughness of his body. The only thing of note about the young man is his eyes. Born a shifting shade of hazel, his left has since turned pale and milky since the incident that maimed him and left him blind in that eye. A deep, telling scar rests above and below. His brow seems constantly narrowed, making his eyes hold a pensive, wary look and his nose is broad and soft. His upper lip is far fuller than his lower - both dotted with freckles - and his crooked, cheeky smile (when he does decide to offer it) is filled with crowded and crooked teeth, the top two left incisors jagged and broken.

Ora tends to favour practical yet loose and drapey fashion often in dark colours with the odd - and faded - pop of colour. He's most often seen donning a faded blue shirt - sleeves rolled up - worn loose and open around the neck and chest yet bound at the waist by a dirty red striped sash - that cinched in by a dark leather weapon belt. His trousers are well-travelled and baggy, worn tucked into his old leather boots.

He has a thing for collecting odd scraps of fabric and tends to tie them where he's able: around the top of a bicep, a thigh, his neck, wound around his boots or his head and - most often - worn wrapped around his right forearm and knuckle to hide his Daggerhand brand when the situation calls for discretion. His Kopis and knuckleduster are kept on his left side, the former slung between his belt and sash and latter strung from one of his strips of cloth and ready to be pulled free for use, while his dagger is kept sheathed at his lower back.

He trades his long-sleeved shirt for a loose, open linen vest in the warmer months - or forgoes a shirt entirely, hardly modest or shy of the marks that litter his frame. Conversely, the cooler season and travel finds him layering the two and adding a hooded cloak over his usual ensemble. This cloak is also used to disguise his features, wrapping it around his head and face when necessary.

scars and markings

Scar - Left eye A deep, thick scar winds through his left brow and continues down nearly to the corner of his lip. Clean and paler than his tan skin, he received it (among many others) when he was thirteen and found himself in the middle of a bloody gang clash.

Scars - Body Growing up in Sunberth, one will inevitably acquire their fair share of scars and Ora is no different. His back is littered with deep, ugly marks from his days of getting flogged by his mother's pimp. Pale, raised scars also make their appearance on the top of his left pec, across his right bicep and lower left torso near his hip.

Tattoos - Arms & Hands His arms are littered with scraggly scars from his rough and tumble upbringing and line of work as well as simplistic, poorly-done tattoos - shapes and symbols, mainly (the Daggerhand symbol - the thorn-encircled dagger - is on his right forearm). His hands are calloused, worn and battered, each knuckle tattooed with some small symbol and finger inked in a manner to resemble thick rings, each bearing an emblem of sorts.

 

Scars

22 Fall 516			Scar on back of left forearm
24 Fall 516			Scar on right cheek and left bicep
39 Fall 516			Circular scar the size of a miza on back of left thigh

 

Injuries

22 Fall 516			Superficial dagger wound, left forearm (healed)
24 Fall 516			Superficial cuts to right cheek and left bicep (healed)
39 Fall 516			Crossbow bolt wound, back of left thigh

 

Misc

[Orakan]

personality

Ora is an absolute shyke of a thing. A stroppy, surly mongrel and plucky in the most annoying way, he will niggle and meddle to his heart's content and do his best to make your life miserable. Despite his arrogance and brazen self-confidence, he is not an affable man but rather a smug and sarcastic cynic at best and cold and numb deviant at his worst. To Ora, life will always be petched.

Like the bulk of those born, raised and/or residing in Sunberth, Ora is extremely self-serving, unabashedly selfish, untrusting and prone to apathy. As a natural born hustler, he lacks empathy and morals and will do what he must to get by without a second thought. He is skilled at dissociation and turning off his emotions, a strategy he learned early on in his youth as a coping mechanism, and is not one for regret or remorse. It's from this scrappy need to survive that he turned to the Daggerhand and he is as loyal and dutiful a member as they come (which isn't saying much). However, when it comes to the crunch, he will inevitably do what's best for himself - loyalties be damned. He's no stranger to betrayal, after all.

quirks and traits

Speech - Ora has an annoying habit of referring to himself by name and speaking in third person. Adding to this, his common is extremely lazy and he tends to keep his comments and replies monosyllabic which leads most to believe he's as dumb as a bag of hammers... and he prefers it this way.

Hygiene - Oddly a stickler in some areas and completely unfettered by others, Ora is semi-obsessed with oral hygiene, his finger nails and the state of his hair. It's common to see him cleaning his nails, running a comb through his hair or attempt at a beard or picking at his teeth. He also enjoys to bathe any chance he gets.. but only if the opportunity presents itself. His clothes are a completely different story...

Restless Hands - Despite above, Ora is a notorious skin and nail picker and hair twister. He simply cannot handle his hands being idle and must busy them at all times, making him come off as a touch twitchy. This habit grows ten-fold when he is stressed or agitated.

pre-creation history

Sunberth has never been kind to her children and Ora knows this all too well.

Middea, his mother, was but a lowly prostitute, thrust into the life after being sold to pay off her parents debts, and she was hardly equipped to handle a child. Yet a child she did have - despite her pimp’s best efforts and fists - but a mother she never truly was.

They say it takes a village to raise a child and the Tent City was just that for Ora. Whilst his mother was often absent, others stepped in to care for the hapless bub. There was no love, just a base need of those nearby to stay the squalls of a hungry child as best they could - which wasn’t much. Oft left with little but dust in their pockets, a select, forgotten few did what they could. It was a charity he would have no recollection of but one that kept him alive long enough for Sunberth proper to take him into her wretched arms.

He became many things during his formative years, hustling and doing whatever necessary to survive, and yet the greatest thing he became was numb. Numb to the reasons he did what he did. Numb to his mother’s - and, moreover, her pimp, Nasso’s - machinations and manipulation. Most importantly, numb to the pain that clung to him like his shadow.

It started with the floggings. Most often directed at his mother, they soon included him as well, especially as he grew. He’d be flogged for speaking, flogged for not speaking. Flogged for what his mother’s pimp perceived as a challenge and flogged for backing down. Flogged for getting in the way of his mother’s business and then flogged when he didn’t bring in business. It seemed the man took a perverse pleasure in striking out at the kid whenever the opportunity presented itself - which was often - and Ora simply learned to endure.

It wasn’t until the flesh-peddling that Ora’s resolve was truly tested and worn thin. Albeit not technically Nasso’s property, the man viewed the eight-year-old as such and exploited him appropriately once the idea to do so wormed its way into his head. The following five years hardened the boy in ways no other experience could, especially after his mother's death in late 508 av which saw Nasso turn his full attention onto Ora.

The pimp had little regard who took interest in the boy, only that he brought in mizas, and so he paid little mind when Ora's path crossed with that of a Daggerhand Big brother. Despite the seedy nature of the 'relationship', this man laid the foundation to the life Ora has worked to build for himself.

With time, the man began assuring the boy of his safety by way of their association and, being the first taste of hope the boy had ever experienced, Ora latched on to this idea. He turned on Nasso that Spring before seeking a new life within the Daggerhand numbers.

His history followed him.

Members knew of that Big Brother's particular predilections and it did not take much for them to put two and two together. They frowned at the favours that had been exchanged. They laughed. They jeered. They taunted. Then they turned him away.

Ora had never been familiar with hand-outs, having always worked to get what he had, and so the taunting and the possible nepotism stung. Flung back to the slum-mother and her streets, he regrouped himself and grew twisted. All notions of trust went to dust as the young boy grew cold and callous, nurtured by her heavy hand.

Despite this, he learned that one cannot survive long in Sunberth as a lone wolf. And so, he once more sought safety in the numbers the Daggerhand provided. It had been a year since he had been turned away, a year that had seen many changes as well as the death of that particular Daggerhand Big Brother. He went through the trials necessary to be inducted as a Brother despite how hypocritical it was of him to do so, to put himself in league with a group run by a sociopathic and megalomaniacal tyrant that reminded him so much of the man he had grown up loathing. Ora, despite his youth, opted to listen to reason rather than emotion: The Daggerhand were arguably the strongest of the big three and, in a city like Sunberth, strength equalled survival. Plus, they ruled through fear.

And, oh, did Ora ever love both.

[Orakan]

languages

Common	Fluent (Heavy Sunberthian accent)
Fratava	Basic/Semi-conversational

lores

 

Factions

Lore of the Daggerhand (SP)
▪ Vigilantes: Formed in the Fall of 516

 

Locations

Lore of Sunberth Street Layout (SP)
▪ Location: Baroque Bay
▪ Location: Brega's House of Happy Endings
▪ Location: Darkest Waters (Pier)
▪ Location: No Man's Land Tavern
▪ No Man's Land Tavern: Linked to the Vigilantes
▪ Location: The Leg's Other Leg (Pier)
▪ The Leg's Other Leg: A pier where ships and cargo go missing
▪ Location: The Pig's Foot Tavern

 

Misc

▪ Akalak: Giant men
▪ Gold Dust (Drug): Uses and effects
▪ Logbook: Shows all the comings, goings and contents of a ship
▪ Orakan: Hates being touched
▪ Sunberth breeds distrust
▪ Sunberth: Fear and superstition rules
▪ Sunberth: Strange happenings of Fall 516

 

People

▪ Harry The Leg: Runs The Leg's Other Leg
▪ Hobbs: Old dockworker and skilled gambler
▪ Tissi: One of Brega's girls
▪ Tissi: Too ballsy and handsy
▪ Vos: Daggerhand cutpurse and philanderer
▪ Vos: Easily distracted by women
▪ Vos: Fights with a crossbow
▪ Yianda: A serious, no-nonsense woman
▪ Yianda: Daggerhand rogue
▪ Yianda: Fights with dual kukri blades

 

Skills

▪ Acrobatics: Finding balance while on a rocking ship
▪ Acrobatics: Lunging at a hostile opponent
▪ Acrobatics: Making use of momentum
▪ Acrobatics: Resisting a shoulder knock
▪ Brawling: Using a chair as a weapon
▪ Bodybuilding: Using one's full body to help with lifting
▪ Cosmetology: Pre-fight cleansing ritual
▪ Disguise: Using a cloak to keep ones face and features hidden
▪ Endurance: Drugs help to resist pain
▪ Endurance: Resisting painful memories
▪ Endurance: Using adrenaline to overcome pain
▪ Gambling: The pain of losing
▪ Intimidation: Growls and glares can get a point across
▪ Intimidation: Standing your ground
▪ Intimidation: Using the Daggerhand symbol to your advantage
▪ Investigation: Searching an area for threats
▪ Kopis: Two-handed downward hack
▪ Kopis: Two-handed upward swing
▪ Leadership: Directing conversation and giving orders
▪ Meditation: Controlling ones breaths
▪ Meditation: Finding centre
▪ Meditation: Imagining tension and stress leaving the body
▪ Meditation: Taking deep breaths to relax and clear the mind
▪ Meditation: Tuning out thoughts in order to engage and control the body and mind
▪ Observation: Using touch as a guide in a dark space
▪ Persuasion: Using fear to sway opinion
▪ Philosophy: No point in 'putting the cart before the horse'
▪ Planning: Making oneself ready to react
▪ Planning: Using drugs to prepare the mind and body for battle
▪ Running: Charging an opponent
▪ Socialisation: Hand and head gestures as a form of communication
▪ Stealth: Holding ones breath to avoid detection
▪ Stealth: Keeping low
▪ Stealth: Minding the sound of ones footfalls
▪ Stealth: Using large objects to hide behind
▪ Subterfuge: Performing a ruse in a bid to use and deceive another person
▪ Tactics: Creating a distraction
▪ Unarmed Combat: Always try and subdue or disarm an armed opponent
▪ Unarmed Combat: Basic grapple holds
▪ Unarmed Combat: Basic throw
▪ Unarmed Combat: Fending away a blade
▪ Unarmed Combat: Fighting dirty
▪ Unarmed Combat: Striking with an elbow
▪ Unarmed Combat: Submission hold (choke)
▪ Unarmed Combat: Submission hold (lock)
▪ Unarmed Combat: Taunting and demeaning an opponent with slaps

skills

Skill	RB	SP	XP	Total	Proficiency
Intimidation		20	6	26 / 100	Competent
Unarmed Combat		20	6	26 / 100	Competent
Acrobatics			5	5 / 100	Novice
Bodybuilding			4	4 / 100	Novice
Brawling			2	2 / 100	Novice
Cosmetology			1	1 / 100	Novice
Deduction			1	1 / 100	Novice
Disguise			1	1 / 100	Novice
Endurance			7	7 / 100	Novice
Gambling			1	1 / 100	Novice
Intelligence			2	2 / 100	Novice
Interrogation			4	4 / 100	Novice
Investigation			7	7 / 100	Novice
Land Navigation			2	2 / 100	Novice
Leadership			4	4 / 100	Novice
Logic			2	2 / 100	Novice
Medicine			1	1 / 100	Novice
Meditation			3	3 / 100	Novice
Observation			17	17 / 100	Novice
Organisation			1	1 / 100	Novice
Persuasion			1	1 / 100	Novice
Philosophy			1	1 / 100	Novice
Planning			5	5 / 100	Novice
Rhetoric			2	2 / 100	Novice
Running			3	3 / 100	Novice
Scavenging			1	1 / 100	Novice
Socialisation			8	8 / 100	Novice
Stealth			2	2 / 100	Novice
Subterfuge			1	1 / 100	Novice
Tactics			4	4 / 100	Novice
Torture		10		10 / 100	Novice
Weapon: Kopis	15		4	19 / 100	Novice

Resolve score (33) :

Resolve Breakdown

Player Character			26
Interrogation (Novice)			1
Intimidation (Competent)			2
Meditation (Novice)			1
Leadership/Persuasion (Novice)			1
Endurance (Novice)			1
Torture (Novice)			1
Total			33

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possessions

 

Armament

	Heirloom	Simple kopis with a brass and bone handle (heirloom: Previously belonged to Nasso Rast) and matching leather scabbard.
		Simple dagger with matching leather scabbard.
		Wooden practice kopis, metal core.
		Basic brass knuckle duster.
		Basic black leather armor.
	Lion Claw Gauntlet	(Unclaimed) A Magecrafted guantlet shaped as a lion's paw that is durable enough to act as a shield. The fingers are tipped with claws and there are hooked protrusions on the knuckles. (See link for full list of capabilities.)

 

Clothing

	Starting Package	Faded and well worn linen shirt that, at one point, was a pale blue but now looks grey.
	Starting Package	Faded brown linen trousers that look worn and loose.
	Starting Package	Simple hooded black cloak.
	Starting Package	Plain undergarments
	Sarting Package	Weathered and battered leather boots.
		Loose linen vest, faded and muted maroon.
		Coarse wool pants, black.

 

Accessories

		Striped sash, reds, washed out.
		Simple ring, silver (x2).
		Simple leather belt.
		Simple belt pouch, leather.
		Weapon harness, chest and hip.
		Linen scarf, black.
		Eyepatch.

 

Grooming

	Starting Package	Wooden comb .
	Starting Package	Wooden brush.
	Starting Package	Straight razor.
	Starting Package	Bar of soap.

 

Misc

	Starting Package	Simple pack, weathered.
	Starting Package	Flint & Steel.
	Starting Package	Balanced rations, one week's worth.
	Starting Package	Simple eating knife.
	Starting Package	Basic waterskin.
		Bones, game.
		Manacles.
		Rope, Hemp (50 ft.)
		Pipe, clay.
		Vial of black ink, opened (1oz)
		Hip flask (8oz)

housing

Location Robern's Reaches
Lifestyle Common
Housing A room within the Daggerhand-owned inn complete with bathing, regular meals, and all the drink one can guzzle. His room looks just as it did before he moved in and lacks any personal detail or ornamentation, containing nothing more than a bunk, chest, chair and table. The floorboards have grown warped, the ceiling sunken and walls discoloured and covered in mold and mildew after water damage in Spring 516 AV.

ledger

Purchase	Cost	Total
Starting package		100gm
Manacles	- 15gm	85gm
Pipe, clay	- 13gm	72gm
Leather armor	- 10gm	62gm
Rings, silver (x2)	- 6gm	56gm
Scabbard	- 4gm	52gm
Dagger	- 2gm	50gm
Scabbard, dagger	- 2gm	48gm
Pouch, belt	- 1gm	47gm
Rope, hemp (50ft)	- 1gm	46gm
Knuckleduster	- 5sm	45gm 5sm
Belt, leather	- 4sm	45gm 1sm
Vest	- 3sm	44gm 8sm
Sash	- 1sm	44gm 7sm
Bones, game	- 1sm	44gm 6sm
Gambling	- 8sm	43gm 8sm
Gallon of ale	- 2sm	43gm 6sm
Drug and candles	- 8gm 2cm	35gm 5sm 8cm
Costume items	- 12gm 3sm 6cm	23gm 2sm 2cm
Fall 516 income	+ 273gm	296gm 2sm 2cm
Fall 516 expenses (common)	- 135gm	161gm 2sm 2cm
Winter 516 - Fall 518	Inactive	161gm 2sm 2cm
Winter 518 expenses (common)	- 138gm	23gm 2sm 2cm
Gambling	- 1gm	22gm 2sm 2cm
Flask & booze	- 1gm	21gm 2sm 2cm
Summer 519-?	Inactive	21gm 2sm 2cm

[Orakan]

threads

Spring 519 :

Date	Title	Status	Reward
5th	Into Enemy Territory	Active

Winter 518 :

Date	Title	Status	Reward
23rd	[The Clinic] Red Right Hand	Active
37th	[Western Heights] A Show of Force	Active
40th	Night of Masks [Event]	Active
92nd	[Midnight Gem] The New Year's Eve Costume Party	Active
92nd	[NYEP] A Fortune For the New Year	Active
92nd	[NYEP] Pray to Ovek and Throw the Dice!	Active
92nd	[NYEP] Shadows and Secrets	Active

Fall 516 :

Date	Title	Status	Reward
22nd	[The Pig's Foot] Sivah Sips & Secrets Spill	Abandoned	Acrobatics 2; Bodybuilding 2; Endurance 3; Intelligence 1; Interrogation 2; Intimidation 5; Investigation 1; Leadership 1; Observation 5; Philosophy 1; Planning 1; Rhetoric 1; Socialisation 5; Tactics 1; Unarmed Combat 2; 22 Lores
24th	[Tall Johnny's] The Wretched and Joyful	Forthcoming
24th	[No Man's Land Tavern] The Messes of Men	Complete	Acrobatics 2; Bodybuilding 1; Brawling 2; Cosmetology 1; Endurance 3; Intimidation 1; Investigation 1; Kopis 2; Land Navigation 1; Meditation 2; Observation 5; Organisation 1; Planning 2; Running 2; Unarmed Combat 3; 16 Lores
29th	[Baroque Bay] Crude and Proud	Forthcoming
39th	[The Docks] Of All the Feckless Men	Complete	Disguise 1; Endurance 1; Intelligence 1; Interrogation 2; Investigation 3; Leadership 3; Logic 2; Medicine 1; Meditation 1; Observation 4; Planning 2; Running 1; Socialisation 3; Stealth 2; Tactics 2; Unarmed Combat 1; Weapon: Kopis 2; 20 Lores
39th	[Baroque Bay] Of All the Feckless Men (pt II)	Forthcoming
75th	[Baroque Bay] Something Fishy	Abandoned	Acrobatics 1; Bodybuilding 1; Deduction 1; Gambling 1; Investigation 2; Land Navigation 1; Observation 3; Persuasion 1; Rhetoric 1; Scavenging 1; Subterfuge 1; Tactics 1; 12 Lores

Flashbacks :

Date	Year	Title	Status	Reward
72-73 Winter	508	All Alone and the Fire Grows	Active

[Orakan]

relationships

 

Middea

Name Middea "Midge" Khendras
Race Human
Date of Birth 8 Fall 480
Date of Death 73 Winter 508
Place of Birth Sunberth
Relationship Mother
Skills Acting (40), Endurance (20), Intelligence (15), Negotiation (25), Persuasion (35), Seduction (45), Subterfuge (20)
Gnosis N/A

Sold to Nasso at a young age in order for her family to clear a substantial debt, it did not take long for Midge to break and become the thing Nasso used her as. She seized the role of lowly prostitute and crafted her being around it, shaping herself, her mentality and her ways to suite the lifestyle. Albeit far from one of Brega's or Ruby's girls, Midge honed her skills to make herself one of the savviest streetworkers and grew to be cut-throat, manipulative and cruel for the sake of survival. The birth of her son was unwelcome and unwanted yet she came to view the boy as a tool and used Ora as such. The two never truly formed a healthy bond but one based on necessity and co-dependence until her death in the Winter of 508.

 

Nasso

Name Nasso Rast
Race Human
Date of Birth 70 Summer 478
Date of Death 2 Spring 513
Place of Birth Sunberth
Relationship Former Pimp
Skills Gambling (20), Intelligence (40), Interrogation (20), Intimidation (25), Kopis (20), Negotiation (25), Persuasion (45), Subterfuge (25), Torture (35), Tracking (20), Unarmed Combat (25)
Gnosis N/A

As the only regular male presence in Ora's early life, Nasso played a huge role in shaping how he viewed others. A study in duality, Nasso was either pleasantly sedate or violently hostile - there were no in-betweens - and Ora was most often exposed to the latter, bearing the internal and external scars to prove it. He was nothing more than a lowly thug when Ora knew him; a fledgling enforcer in the employ of Goldfinger who lacked the brains and initiative to be much more. However, it was once he began flesh peddling Ora that things changed. The Brotherhood began to take notice and Nasso sought safety in their numbers and ever-increasing influence in the Spring of 510 after Ora turned on him, the boy using his growing ties to the Daggerhand to his advantage. He met his demise three years later, succumbing to the sort of grisly end befitting more Sunberthian low-lifes.