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NAME Thistle of the Relinswood, although he may say he is from other places if it suits his needs
GENDER Male
AGE Chronological: about 22 years. Physical: a little over 28 years
RACE Muscheron
HOMETOWN He's not quite sure where he was born, but he's spent most of his life in the Relinswood and the surrounding area, including dipping into provential Ravelle.
OCCUPATION Con artist

APPEARANCE
2'8"
red-tan skin
Green-black wavy hair, medium length, low ponytail
Sage green eyes

**This section is still not done**

Leucoagaricus americanus top --
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/photos/Leucoagaricus_americanus(fs-01).jpg (I like the colors on these, shape more like the mushrooms on the left)
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/leucoagaricus_americanus.html (another reference for shape)

PERSONALITY
Thistle is friendly and charismatic. He goes out of his way to meet people, and then goes out of his way to know all about them. Sometimes he may ask more questions than is actually polite.

He's a a bit on the lazy side, prefering to hang around with people than actually go get work done. He won't go out of his way for people, but will usually turn them down in a joking, friendly way.

Thistle is looking for the easy life. He'd love to be able to just sit around in cafes and taverns all day with a beer and some good company.

The natural world holds some fascination for Thistle, but he's not horribly knowledgable about it. For a Muscheron, he's very cosmopolitan and city-oriented, prefering to be with people than with plants and animals. He would be able to live in the forest for a period of time (maybe because the local towns had become aware of his gig? xd ) but he would prefer to be in a populated area. He views more natural Muscherons with a mix of contempt ("What an ignorant yokel!") and envy, but wouldn't express any of that out loud.

He's very familiar several different races, notably humans, Pennier, and his kin the Muscherons. He has probably never met a Duszek. His experiences with Ejderha have been limited and short, and he has never tried to con one, being a little afraid of them. He has always hidden from Lamia and has never met one face-to-face, only seen them from a distance.

HISTORY
Thistle is the youngest child of eleven, in a family of tricksters and thieves traveling through the Relinswood and the surrounding area. For years before he was born, his family has run the same basic scam: One of their children would pose as an orphan and approach a well-to-do human or pennier family or couple. The child would work her way into the family’s good graces for several weeks until the victims trusted her, and often even would consider taking her in as their own child. All that time, the child would be returning to her real parents with tactical information for the coming heist. When an opportunity would present itself, the real family would cat burgle the place for anything that wasn't nailed down. The child would disappear during the heist.

Thistle spent most of his early life playing the "sweet, helpless orphan." He had a knack for it. Even human and pennier families (the usual targets) would be taken by his charm and big, soulful eyes. After one burglary, the childless human couple spent months searching for Thistle, putting up posters and offering rewards. They thought that he had been taken in the heist, not one of that masterminds behind it.

When Thistle was 9 years old, his parents and siblings never appeared at the rendezvous point after a heist. He waited in the designated thicket for several days, but no one showed up. Thistle wasn't sure if they had abandoned him or if they'd been caught, but he couldn't wait any longer.

Without his family to return to, Thistle made his way back to his "foster" home, hoping that perhaps the pennier couple he had been staying with would believe that he had nothing to do with the crime. Unfortunately for Thistle, they had figured him out, and drove him out of the town.

Thistle wandered from city to city for several years, sometimes playing his old role -- the sweet, helpless orphan -- then taking off with provisions and valuables to sell. Sometimes he would rough it in the woods. He joined a Muscheron community for several months only to be driven out when he was identified as related to a family that had scammed half the village a year ago. Thistle discovered that his family had survived the heist in which he was abandoned, and that they weren't looking for him.

During this period Thistle developed his fighting style. His original technique was to tie a bright scarf to a low-hanging tree branch to attract an animal or monster, and then attack the creature from behind. When he picked up a companion or two in his wanderings, he learned that it worked even better to play the bait while the others attacked. His own weapon and his skill at dodging kept him mostly out of harm's way.

{ Thistle met and joined a group of human and Muscheron con artists at the perfect time for him -- he was growing too old for his helpless orphan act to work. The group, calling themselves "Madam Iluminada's Transciedental Fortunes and Séances: not for the Weak of Heart," would run a con where they would send a member of the group (preferably one of the Muscherons) into a village as a "traveller" and pick up as much of the current gossip and rumors as possible. The traveller then leaves and meets up with the other members of the group, who come into town a day later. They would pretend to be travelling with a fortune teller, who would then use all the information and gossip to stage elaborate readings and séances. The villages would be amazed at the accuracy and would pay dearly for attempts to speak with their dead and know their "futures." After the town had been milked for all the money they were worth, the "Madam Iluminada" group would move on.

The con ran foul a few to many times, and the Relinswood and Ravelle started getting to hot for the fortune tellers. Some discussion led to the option of travelling down to the Isle of Murzim and laying low until their reputation died down. }

Thistle and his friends took a ship from the mainland to Murzim from the Pennier port of Tochantier, and settled into Aschere easily, meeting people and making friends, with some legit fortune-telling on the side.

Thistle decided to join the League to improve his fighting skills, and gain information about the members. { The possibility of running a con against them has crossed his mind. }

COMMON KNOWLEDGE
Just that Thistle is a charming Muscheron, friendly and gregarious. He's got a Muscheron and a few human friends who live in the area around Aschere who tell fortunes, and he's occationally seen talking and laughing with them. But then again, Thistle can get in a conversation with just about anyone.

Woo another Mushkin person to look forward to!
;D
Your job set looks pretty interesting and unique... Your history is also quite good. Overall I think you've got yourself a very unique and interesting character in the making here!

Uhm, for Enrage, it might be easiest to just call it a form of Negative Stat Effect (Melee) or something, since that is the stat that effects how well you can hit people?

I'll read other stuff later. (Don't kill me. ;_; )

YOU ARE TOTALLY BADASS, SHIM.

(Have a nice day. ._.)

Oh man, I absolutely loved the history. This character is really interesting. I was really curious about why Thistles family didn't pick him up after the last heist; this is just my personal interest though, whether or not you mention it in the actual history won't effect the speed of your approval, I reckon. XD

I will probably talk with the other mods about Thistles skills tomorrow. So, yes.

I heart thistle. Can't wait to see him finished.

I might just scrap the Enrage idea and use one of hte newly approved skills. I'll have to look at them, though.

I'm messing with the history still. I came up with an idea I really like involving a second group of conmen. I'm still working it in, though.

Yay, Thistle!

I'm wondering: What does Thistle tell other people that he does for a living? It's not like he can just come out and admit that he's a con man (or even a supposedly reformed con man).

Thistle is a really cute, interesting character. I especially love the whited-out bit in the history. What you have now is great, and all you really need is a bit more fleshing out in the personality and history sections. Here’s some questions to think about. They’ll hopefully help you to add a bit more to the character’s personality.



Hopefully these questions will give you some help! Keep up the great work!