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Home of my troublemakers

Appearance: (view spoiler)[Kylan 5'7" is the thin shifty sort. Being a fire Tiefling he has red skin, black horns and a tail. Golden eyes that always seem to hold mischief, that go along with his smirk. Black hair that travels down the back of his neck and hangs down the side of his face. (hide spoiler)]

STATS
(view spoiler)[Str- 15
Con- 9
Wis- 6
Dex- 13
Int- 11
Cha- 17 (hide spoiler)]

Name: Kylan Steele
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bi
Race: Fire Tiefling
Class: Rogue
Subclass: Criminal

Magical Abilities:

(view spoiler)[Control Flames:
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: S
Duration: Instantaneous or 1 hour

You choose nonmagical flame that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You affect it in one of the following ways:

*You instantaneously expand the flame 5 feet in one direction, provided that wood or other fuel is present in the new location.
*You instantaneously extinguish the flames within the cube.
*You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour.
*You cause simple shapes—such as the vague form of a creature, an inanimate object, or a location—to appear within the flames and animate as you like. The shapes last for 1 hour.
*If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.

Fire Bolt:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous

*You hurl a mote of fire at a creature or object within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this spell ignites if it isn’t being worn or carried.

Burning Hands:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (15-foot cone)
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous

*As you hold your hands with thumbs touching and fingers spread, a thin sheet of flames shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips. Each creature in a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried. (hide spoiler)]

Personality:(view spoiler)[ Kylan is very Chaotic Neutral. It's the Tiefling in him. He can't help it, nor does he try. He's not evil, just enjoys a good bit of fun. Sometimes... Most times, that comes at the expense of others. Especially their coin purses. He's big on the theatrics and enjoys things that go BOOM! When he's not getting into trouble he enjoys the company of his friends. His friends are his family. He can be quite charming and flirtatious, very much a smooth talker. (hide spoiler)]

Backstory:

(view spoiler)[Abandoned as a babe in the woods Kylan was lucky enough to be found by a dwarf by the name of Myra Steele who he considers to be his mother. While Myra did her best to raise Kylan his Tiefling nature always did have a way of shining bright with his antics around the village. While made fun of by many other children he found a friend in Lerina and together they got into much mischief as children.

Until the day they were kidnapped from their home. Lerina used her ability to help the other village children escape but Kylan refused to leave his friend's side. In the end the two were separated. Kylan sent to a workhouse with other boys, where beatings were numerous and food was scarce.

At sixteen his fire abilities started to come to him. He'd practice in secret. Until finally one night he managed to escape from the place he'd been imprisoned. Having no sense of direction Kylan couldn't find his way back home. Instead he traveled from town to town, kingdom to kingdom. Performing petty thefts for quite some time to get by.

Until one day by chance he entered a tavern and heard a voice singing that he hadn't heard in quite some time. Reuniting with his old friend helped Kylan greatly. Though both had clearly been through trauma they refused to talk about it wasn't long before they fell into their old antics. In time adding more rogues who had nowhere to go and only grey morals to speak, into their group. Becoming a traveling band of rogues. (hide spoiler)]

Appearance: (view spoiler)[Lerina 5'6" is a lithe Caucasian elf, pointed ears with fiery red hair that goes down her back and to her waist. She has auburn colored eyes that always seem to have a way of drawing people in. (hide spoiler)]

STATS
(view spoiler)[Str- 9
Con- 11
Wis- 15
Dex- 15
Int- 13
Cha-17 (hide spoiler)]

Name: Lerina Carrillo
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Race: Young Wood Elf
Class Bard
Subclass: Criminal

Magical Abilities:

(view spoiler)[Message:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a short piece of copper wire)
Duration: 1 round

You point your finger toward a creature within range and whisper a message. The target (and only the target) hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear.

You can cast this spell through solid objects if you are familiar with the target and know it is beyond the barrier. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood blocks the spell. The spell doesn’t have to follow a straight line and can travel freely around corners or through openings.

Minor Illusion:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S, M (a bit of fleece)
Duration: 1 minute

You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.

If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else’s voice, a lion’s roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.

If you create an image of an object—such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest—it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can’t create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.

If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature.

Vicious Mockery:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: Instantaneous

You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range. If the target can hear you (though it need not understand you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 1d4 psychic damage and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.

Charm Person:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour

You attempt to charm a humanoid you can see within range. It must make a Wisdom saving throw, and does so with advantage if you or your companions are fighting it. If it fails the saving throw, it is charmed by you until the spell ends or until you or your companions do anything harmful to it. The charmed creature regards you as a friendly acquaintance. When the spell ends, the creature knows it was charmed by you.

Command:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: 1 round

You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn’t understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it. Some typical commands and their effects follow. You might issue a command other than one described here. If you do so, the DM determines how the target behaves. If the target can’t follow your command, the spell ends.

Approach. The target moves toward you by the shortest and most direct route, ending its turn if it moves within 5 feet of you.

Drop. The target drops whatever it is holding and then ends its turn.

Flee. The target spends its turn moving away from you by the fastest available means.

Grovel. The target falls prone and then ends its turn.

Halt. The target doesn’t move and takes no actions. A flying creature stays aloft, provided that it is able to do so. If it must move to stay aloft, it flies the minimum distance needed to remain in the air.

Dissonant Whispers:

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: Instantaneous

You whisper a discordant melody that only one creature of your choice within range can hear, wracking it with terrible pain. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 3d6 psychic damage and must immediately use its reaction, if available, to move as far as its speed allows away from you. The creature doesn’t move into obviously dangerous ground, such as a fire or a pit. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and doesn’t have to move away. A deafened creature automatically succeeds on the save. (hide spoiler)]

Personality:(view spoiler)[ Lerina is the type that loves being the star of the show and at the center of attention. For how much she hides her true self she's great at putting on a performance. It also lets her test out her abilities to their fullest which she enjoys. She enjoys being around her friends and will fight for them. At the time in given the trauma she has gone through she's not good at letting anyone get really close to her and will usually use dry humor to mask her emotions. (hide spoiler)]

Backstory:

(view spoiler)[Lerina comes from a poor village of outcasts. Each family living there choosing to be there and away from the bigger towns and cities for one reason or another. An only child Lerina was quite the trouble maker in her youth. Even still she had hopes of one day becoming a knight.

Quite the prodigy Lerina found her ability for song as a young child. Though it would still be a long time before she had a true master over it. Yet it was something that helped save her peers when all of the children were out playing and were preyed upon by a group of kidnappers who sold children for profit. Lerina managed to use her magical song just long enough to cause the distraction the children needed. Yet far from skilled enough to use it to save herself.

Upon her separation from Kylan, Lerina was taken to a brothel.
A place she wouldn't manage to escape from until 17.
Given all she'd gone through Lerina had no intentions of returning home. Having little value of herself but not yet willing to simply give in and die Lerina traveled constantly. Until the day finally came that she happened upon Kylan again and the old friends reconnected. (hide spoiler)]

Appearance: (view spoiler)[Daken is 6'1" and has a slim physique that hides a lot of muscle. He's Caucasian with obvious Asian decent with his looks and dark almond brown eyes. His black hair is kept relatively short, only going so far down the back of his neck while the rest is allowed to hang down just past his eyes. (hide spoiler)]

STATS

(view spoiler)[Str- 18
Con- 10
Wis- 16
Dex- 17
Int- 14
Cha- 8 (hide spoiler)]

Name: Kimura Daken
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Race: Human
Class: Fighter
Subclass: Ex Samurai

Magical Abilities

(view spoiler)[None, but very talented with his Samurai swords and remaining in the shadows. (hide spoiler)]

Personality: (view spoiler)[Daken is very much the silent type. Only really speaking when he feels it's worth it to do so. He's not one to waste words. He's much more the type to study a situation before acting. He also enjoys studying others. He acts more like a shadow than an actual person half the time. In his free time he can usually be found reading or practicing with his swords. He's also very protective of his friends now that he knows what it's like to have them. (hide spoiler)]

Backstory:

(view spoiler)[Daken was the result of one of his father's concubines and his father who was the master of the house. Because of who his mother was Daken was often looked down upon and unlike his brother Daichi, would always just be considered a bastard child and not an actual Kimura heir.
From an early age Daken was trained to fight so that he could help protect his brother, Daichi. Daken took quickly to his training and became a true Samurai.
At 17 his home was attacked. His father slain. The lady of the house and all the concubines, including his mother captured. Daken focused on his task of protecting Daichi. Just to find himself betrayed. Daichi having allied with their father's enemy to bring about his demise. Daichi thought he had killed Daken that night as well but he failed.
Once Daken healed he took his revenge. Leaving his home at Oasuri in the Tohira Empire and instead attempting to start a new life. Traveling far away from the home he'd known, whereupon in his travels he happened upon Kylan and Lerina. (hide spoiler)]