Tobias Kallith

Tobias is an unlikeable thief from the small mountain town of Liryit in the central Racluear.

Background
Tobias was born in Liryit under somewhat normal conditions. His mother was a waitress at one of the local taverns, and his father was a sailor. Or a soldier-for-hire, or a bandit, or even an archaeologist. The story changed from time to time, depending on who told it. Either way, he got his jet-black locks and grey irides from the man he never met.

Growing up, he hardly spent much time with his mother, and once he was old enough to venture outside he hardly spent much time home. The young Tobias busied himself with games and adventures in the small village. But, after a while, he fell in with the wrong crowd. It started small, being a distraction or acting as a scout. It soon became pickpocketing shoppers in the market district. He had never been fond of carnivals, but he found they made an excellent chance to make a few extra coin on the distracted townsfolk.

But even though he got relatively good at the trade, he was soon caught. When he was fourteen, he tried to pickpocket an affluent business owner from a nearby town. The towns guard tossed him into the jail. His mother never came, not that this surprised him. By this point, the two had hardly interacted in months. He was not going to rot in a jail cell for long, though. A few weeks later, during a bandit raid, the young man made his escape. The bandits had come to rescue one of Tobias' cell mates, a somewhat infamous bandit from the region. With nothing left for him in his own home town, he left with them but soon enough parted ways.

Intending to make an honest living at the next town he landed in, Tobias' short temper soon got the better of him. At only fifteen, and just a few months after coming to the town, he killed a man. It had been laughably easy. Tobias had seen plenty of dead guards during the bandit raid, of course. The sight was hardly revolting. In fact, he had enjoyed it. The man had been mouthy and arrogant, talking down to young rogue. All it took was a few stabs from a shiv he had to silence the blubbering mountain of lard. But his crime did not go unnoticed.

Then Eldrin came across the boy standing over the dead body of the disgusting, fat Artemist priest. He scolded the boy, Tobias shocked that he had not noticed the older man. But even more surprising was that Eldrin did not seem to want to turn the young man in. Instead, his scolding turned into a lesson. Some might call it fate or luck, but the young male had run across a rather prolific thief. Eldrin was well-known for stealing valuables from collectors or other lords for a fee. But at this point his glory days were behind him, passed by the younger generation of thieves. The man now passed his days as a performer for a traveling circus, with the occasional pilfering.

From Eldrin, Tobias learned much of the trades of both thieves and acrobats. But the biggest impact Eldrin had was trying to curb and reduce the young thief's nasty attitude. While he was not a success, Tobias did learn to smooth-talk and use words to his advantange, and not immediately go for his blades. He also learned of his magickal capabilities, and Eldrin helped the young man hone them. That said, he is still more than willing to slit your throat if you sleight him in the smallest. He also learned of his magickal capabilities, and Eldrin helped the young man hone them.

But Eldrin's tutelage came to an end only three years later, when the man died of natural causes. Tobias became more easily irritable and anti-social since then, practically reverting to his original personality before meeting Eldrin.

The Inverted Tower
While leaving a certain town in haste, due to killing a man, Tobias' horse slips down a ledge and puts a gash in the male's leg. After slaying the animal and tending to the flesh wound, the male crosses paths with Nasrin, Sebastian, and Elijah. Being unaware of them being thieves, he plays the part of a wayward soul in need of help, even playing up the minor injuring to his leg. Together, along with Maria and Fatima, who the group runs into later, they stumble across an massive underground cavern.

Underground, the group find a skeleton and a mysterious vial. Tobias pockets the mystery potion, before the group crosses a dangerous-looking bridge and makes their way into an inverted tower. Tobias again pockets some items, this time a few jewels on another set of corpses, before the group is greeted by Aiden. After a brief standoff and general suspicion, the group travels up the tower until they run into a room with no exit.

The room is filled with magick and a telepathic message to the group. The riddle is solved, after some difficulty. Tobias does not manage to get his way and head in first. The final room is centred with a sarcophagus. With a bit of help from Aiden, they manage to remove the cover and reveal a book. After doing battle with strange reptile-bird creatures, the group escapes via a portal. The portal lands them into a treasure room, where Tobias bags a few jewels and coins, along with a special map, a healing poultice, and a vial of poison.

Raiding the Blue Caravan
After taking their time to regroup and recover, the party that had ventured down into the Inverted Tower parts ways. Aiden and Fatima parted ways with the group, each headed their own way. That would leave Tobias with Nasrin, the bandit king; her lieutenant, Sebastian; and the highwayman, Elijah. While not the most social of persons, Tobias ends up joining with them for the time being. After making a camp, Nasrin and Elijah head out to get themselves dinner.

When they return, Nasrin tells them of a caravan nearby about to start a celebration. Invited, she takes the opportunity to give the wayward group of bandits a target. However, things end up going poorly. After meandering into the crowd and joining the festivities, Tobias attempts to make friends with the people; however, Velius ends up sending himself to the top of the 'kill' list. Later, when the bandits actually attempt to look the caravan things run aground. Nasrin and Elijah are caught elsewhere. Tobias, while spelunking through Medayo's wagon stumbles on what he believes was a talking skeleton. Before he can inspect it further, however, he's jerked out by Caden.

Caden and Lucien ask what the thief was doing, but when Lucien opens his bag it becomes somewhat obvious. Before he can be apprehended properly, however, Tobias detonates the bag of potions and poisons, creating a smokescreen and allowing himself to dart away. Pursued, the rogue is forced back to the camp that he started in. Once there, he attempts to make his situation a little better. He takes a hostage!

Willa is held at knifepoint as Tobias attempts to negotiate his way out of the mess he's run into. Sebastian, after receiving the necklace the pregnant woman was wearing from Tobias, actually leaves his fellow bandit alone. Meanwhile, Dae'elis ends up creating a distraction. A fiery illusion comes storming toward the thief, causing a fright. While he backpedals, he trips and tumbles over, taking Willa with him. The mother-to-be ends up landing squarely on the thief's chest, knocking the wind out of him before Dae'elis comes over and puts him out cold for the time being...

After this failure, the thief finds himself to be the prisoner of the Caravan for the foreseeable future.

The Dungeon
The Caravan eventually makes camp beneath a large tree in the woods, sheltering themselves from the fierce winds and rain. When they do, Caden takes him for a bit of interrogating, angered that in the previous scuffle Velius was lost. interrupting the interrogation, their small group is chased until they are captured. They wake up later in a strange dungeon, with no idea how they arrived.

Personality
At first inspection, Tobias appears to be an ordinary person. He seems to have a knack for words, knowing how to flatter people and convince them to side with him. However, underneath that he is quite different. The young male is easily agitated, and if you piss him off you will find out he is not all sweet. He seems to truly detest most people, and finds them annoying to deal with. He is clever, quick-witted, stubborn, and can be especially cruel and violent. Tobias does seem to have a soft spot for felines.

Abilities and Equipment
A skilled climber and acrobatic, the male's greatest strength is his ability to move. He seems to have an uncanny knack for finding ways into even the most securely fortified places.

Tobias has an affinity for water. He is capable of controlling nearby sources of water and using them as a weapon, though this is a last resort. Tobias generally forms it into ice daggers, and in fact carries on his person two twin-pronged daggers and then a pouch with enough water to form a 20cm long icicle. He can control approximately forty to fifty liters of water at most, and only close by. So if needed he makes a marginal firefighter!

He is also in possession of a magickal map that reveals local terrestial features. He also picked up a healing poultice and a vial of incurable stomach disease, with an unknown potion rounding out property.

Relationships
Tobias does not particularly enjoy anyone else's company at the moment. He is especially antagonistic toward Aiden, but tries to be friendly to everyone else since they might prove useful to him later.

Trivia

 * Tobias takes his surname from his teacher, Eldrin Kallith.