Role

Chapter 1

The tale from the beginning would have less relevance. That is, to start from
Gedunthos' birth and upbringing. Even from the beginning of his formal
training in the thieves guild would be a poor gauge of what the man is. It is
the sum of all of these things, sure, but current events hold more sway than
his distant and sordid past. Take your pick, really...piracy, murder, whores,
torture, it's all on his list. Most recently, though, he decided to take his
willful greed to new heights. He joined the Imperial Army at a fairly young
age, with the intent on nothing less than taking over the Shadow Sect.
Through the trials that a thief faces, he has come to realize what he is with
really no pretensions. An entity of greed, keenly aware of the power that it
can hold over others. Anyone has a price, though it may not be simple as gold
and jewels for all men, but there is always a price. This is not something he
points out to those around him, of course. Yet another of the things that a
good thief must have in order for everyone to properly hate him, and to be
successful, is the cards close to his chest as well as up his sleeve. No need
to show the hand before the bets are all in, as it were. As he has risen
through the imperial ranks, with rather tremendous alacrity it should be
noted, he has also taken it as a charge to buy out the guilds of the land
with the shadow sect. He of course took the easiest path, the un-filled seat
of the former Shadow Lord as the Bandit King of Hamsah. He intends to
influence the other thieves in the sect to do the same across the land,
especially where the scourge against darkness an order makes its nest in
Voralian. The game of the gold coin can be played outside of the Empire, but
as it's creator, it will be shown that it is won by the masters of it. Dark
tendrils spread out over the land in a network of spies, assassins, bandits
and others of ill name, and if he has his way, all under his greasy black
thumb. Only time will tell if he can be successful, but the only thing that
holds a candle to his greed is his affinity for conquest by the most direct
paths, and those of least resistance. Such is the way of any shadow who plans
to survive to an old age, and so it shall be for Gedunthos.