Role

Chapter 2

First, he is a thief.

With this in mind, you might accurately guess that his father was a successful
businessman or politician, and you might also guess that his mother was a loving, yet
distracted, woman who oversaw the domesticate well-being of her household.
The winds of war are fickle, though, and if one is not agile or astute, the market
for arrows and artichokes might dry up or the merchant might find that his
business has been undercut by a ruthless competitor.

So what does one do? You become more ruthless-er.

So it was that Oliopterix Ragplume found himself skirting the brighter-lit
streets as his father's fixer, trying to deal with problem clients, creditors,
and competitors. And he relished in it, the grit and grins that came from
battling against the other shipping companies, the strongarm tactics and the
political maneuvers that are part of being successful.

But Oli was not ready to settle down quite yet, to take over his father's company.
It was time to see the world, to bloody his knuckles and his beak before getting
a wife and growing fat.