APPLICATION
Dec. 25th, 2018 10:52 pmPLAYER
Name: Cris
Age: 31
Contact: PM, please!
Other Characters: N/A
Interests: Personal Drama. I would love to make Liam's little garbage heart grow three sizes through a long slog of CR. Also enjoy writing action/adventure the most.
CHARACTER
Name: Liam
Canon/OC: Native OC
Journal:
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irreverentlyRace: Human
Nationality: Ferelden
Occupation: Bandit
Division: Scouting
Mage or Not: Not!
Age: 25
History
Born in Honnleath, Liam's family of farmhands fled the Blight when he was still just a child and as a result he remembers Ferelden mostly vaguely. After being turned away from Kirkwall, the refugee ship they were on continued along the coast to Ostwick where Liam's mother and littlest brother died of the sicknesses spreading through the lower decks. During their stay with the other refugees in Ostwick, Liam's father died as well by mugging, despite the fact that he'd been more or less a starving beggar at the time. In order to survive, Liam and his four remaining siblings took jobs in either mercenary bands or brothels, and over time drifted apart to the point where Liam isn't sure how many of them still survive (other than the one sister he knows for sure was hanged by the city.)
Liam himself was one of the ones to take mercenary work, joining a band called the Black Fingers, though their collective preference robbery and racketeering between jobs made them more like a group of occasionally for-hire bandits than anything. Once the crew's leader died and no one else in the company had the contacts or the reputation that he had leaned on to occasionally get them paying work, they simply became regular bandits. In carving out a niche for himself to avoid becoming expendable, Liam discovered a particular knack for making poisons and, perhaps more importantly (considering the absurd number of times he has accidentally poisoned himself over the years) the impressive ability to mix antidotes without recipes.
His band traveled mostly between Ostwick and Wycome, robbing caravans and looting smaller villages when their numbers swelled enough. Years of fluctuating membership between arrests/hangings, and new people finding themselves desperate enough to turn to lives of crime, and Liam learned to stop forming genuine attachments and caring a long time ago. He probably would have trudged along that path to his early grave unhindered... if he hadn't found himself with an anchor shard in his hand following an unfortunate bout of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Though he'd booked it at the time, preferring to save his own skin instead of helping whoever came to close the rift in the end, the distance-induced pains quickly forced him to call in about half of the ill-gotten favors he had ever been owed so someone could haul his ass down to Kirkwall and he could, against literally every crooked, dirty, selfish instinct in his entire body... volunteer to join the Inquisition.
Personality
Liam is... a bandit. He is what you would expect out of a bandit: crude, wicked, greedy and self-centered. He is also clever, so shameless about his lack of scruples that it almost circles around the bend and becomes a little charming, and a bit irresponsibly nonchalant. He is almost pleasant, if he's not robbing you blind, especially if you are a fellow unsavory type. He utterly lacks in moral compunction, and can be paid to look the other way on literally anything. The only reason he might refuse to do something would be in the interest of self-preservation. "Every man for himself" is a sentiment he lives by, and he is not in the least self-sacrificing, preferring the art of strategic retreat to sticking to his guns literally any day of the week.
He is happy to try and take advantage of people he perceives as saps, but genuine altruism coming from an intelligent source will absolutely throw him. (He is in for a strange first few weeks with the Inquisition.) He likes giving people a hard time, but likes even more when they give him one back, and will be "friendly" and difficult to shake when he decides he enjoys someone's company even if—maybe especially if—the feeling is not mutual.
Liam's interests lie in the ephemeral. He cares about money, drinking, sex, having fun and thumbing his nose at society in general. Working for the Inquisition will definitely be the first time in many years that he has had to actually submit to an authority and curb his whims, though it will also probably be the best accommodations and best fed he has had since his family fled Fereldan. Despite his dislike of traditional authority figures, Liam is much more of a follower than a leader. He has no particular ambition beyond his next job, and he is never particularly swayed by any cause. He works very well amidst chaos, but it would probably be better for everyone if there is a hand of some sort directing his attention and his poisons. He will do fine work for the Inquisition, but it will be entirely out of a sense of self-preservation, at least until he experiences some major CR developments.
Opinions & Affiliations
Elves: Liam has worked with the occasional City elf before and they tend to be fine and not even as useless and pathetic as you'd assume at first blush. Doesn't particularly give a shit about their plight and wouldn't stick his neck out for one of them, but that's true of anyone and everyone he encounters. Absolutely avoids the Dalish, though, given the general enmity between bandit groups and Dalish clans.
Dwarves: Bigger fan of the dwarves than of most people, probably because the majority of the dwarves that are stuck on the surface have their priorities seriously in order. Especially loves working with the Carta. Fun folks, those.
Qunari: Never met one. The idea of them is Very Creepy though. Would probably like the Tal Vashoth fine but he isn't even aware there are different kinds of them at the moment.
Mages vs Templars: 10/10 war, please kick off again. Liam was a huge fan of the conflict because it threw everything into chaos and made banditry nice and easy. Not particularly fussed for either side unless he's getting paid to be.
Chantry: Liam is the type of idiot who would definitely make a deal with a demon if (he thought) he was getting something worthwhile out of it, which should really say everything there is to say about that. Chantry never helped him any, so it's all whatever to him.
Adaptation Notes
N/A
Strengths & Weaknesses
STRENGTHS
Poison-Maker: Liam is very gifted at both making and nullifying poisons of his own invention. He can usually tell what poison has been used just by looking at, smelling and (unfortunately...) tasting the wound where it was inflicted. He knows basically all of the useful plants/fungi/fauna in the Free Marches and over the years has developed a decent memory for where to hunt for anything he might need for a poison or an antidote. His daggers are never not coated in something toxic and awful.WEAKNESSES
Rogue: Decent at lock picking and quite good at stealth, Liam is better at running away than engaging in direct combat but he can at least defend himself if cornered. His weapons of choice are a pair of daggers and he is reasonably strong and quick, being young and active, but when he ran with big bandit groups he was always the scout, trapper or lock-picker, not the muscle.
Free Marches Underbelly: If the Inquisition were to ever find a reason to stoop to it, Liam has plenty of contacts within various bandit groups in all the nearby city-states. As long as someone coughs up coin, he can have whatever dirty work needs done get handled.
Farming: He spent the first 12 years of his life as the able-bodied son of a farmhand, which means that he spent those years working. He knows how to maintain a farm, though catch him dead being willing to do that much honest, hard work again.
Unsavory: He is a wanted man in at least 2 city-states. Definitely a bandit. Probably not great for the Inquisition's rep, sorry about that anchor, friends.Inventory
Squishy: Liam fights like, well, your average bandit. He doesn't like being on the front lines and his fight-flight response tends to lean hard into flight. Also he is an absolutely terrible shot with a bow and arrow, just dreadful.
Uneducated: Liam is intelligent in that he has a good memory and is reasonably street-smart, but he was never taught to read, he doesn't know much about history or politics or math, and he wouldn't recognize a good manner if it bit him in the ass.
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Motivation
He's got this sliver of weird magic in his hand.
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