Role

Chapter 4

***Side note***
This role has been written and updated a few times in Aurilinius' life, but was
never put in.

***Meant to go in at Rank 1***
Aurilinius was raised in the orphanage in Balator. He never knew anything of
his parents, and thus was always ignorant of his name. He was found on the
steps of the orphanage, and was given the name Aurilinius by Jaragh. From his
very first days, he enjoyed being in front of a crowd. His first performances
were simple, vmerely telling jokes to everyone and making them laugh, though he
quickly began to talk the teacher into letting him act out small plays for the
other children. Then, the teacher decided to organize all the children, putting
on a performance for the whole town of Balator. Aurilinius was crushed when
another child received the lead role in the play. The day before the play,
Aurilinius broke the child's arm on the playground, attempting to make it look
like an accident. As punishment for this, the teacher decided Aurilinius would
not be allowed to perform for the other children in any way for several months.
This was the beginning of the end for Aurilinius at the Orphanage. Without
being able to get the attention he needed, his personality turned dark and he
kept starting fights with the other children. If he was not going to get attention
for performances, he was going to get it by beating other children up. This
led to tougher punishments, an thus, to worse behavior by Aurilinius. In less
than half a year, Aurilinius had run away from the orphanage.

For several years, Aurilinius worked his way up a small gang in the back streets
of Galadon. By the age of fifteen, he was already in the mid ranks of the gang.
He was not the strongest, or the quickest, but he always tried to be the smartest
fighter, using whatever advantage he had over who he was fighting. For the large
man, he would circle them until they wore out, and for the quicker man, he would
overpower them. Aurilinius enjoyed the fighting, but quickly he found his life
to be empty, lacking in something.

He then went to work at the Inn of the Eternal Star. Though he was only a server
at first, he quickly worked his way into some of the smaller roles in the productions
put on by the Inn. Slowly, Aurilinius started to become one of the prefired actors
of the patrons of the Inn. He loved his new fame, however small it might be. His
reputation grew until he started performing the lead in several plays, and he even
put on a concert by himself by the age of seventeen. His career was well on the
way to exploding, but it was still empty, lacking in something.

Aurilinius came to realize that there were two parts of himself, and he could deny
neither. Half of him was an artist, the other half a fighter. No life that catered
to one and shut out the other would work for him. He thought long and hard and raised
the gold to go and join the bards guild in Galadon, though they were happy to have him
after his time at the Inn.