Remy (Terrorshard, Rogues)
Wealthy, successful, yet with unfinished business, Remy took a break from work for a bit after returning to the city and his run in with Iott, Borkondof and the Relic Hunter of Icefia. When he returned to the Guild with No Name, he went back to his usual missions. Intimidation, shake downs, it was easy.
He received word one day that his presence was requested by someone who wished to hire him. Always interested in potential work, and having the source vetted by the guild, he met with an Iottian agent. The man looked no different than all of the Iottians that were part of their security apparatus Remy had seen in the city before. He introduced himself and noted that he had met Remy before in their unsuccessful effort to secure the weapon City Cleaver.
The man said he was putting together a team to work for Iott and he would like Remy to join. The pay was substantial. Remy agreed, and even though the Iottian refused to consider any other guild members, he did grant Remy one additional request, to be completed after Remy had successfully fulfilled the Iottian mission.
Days later, having said only a few goodbyes, Remy teleported away. Training for more than a year before meeting his team, Remy became a more dangerous force than ever before. Adorned with items of potent magic, he was able to subdue even unshakable knights with the force of his will. "Kneel before Remy." Training complete, he met the rest of his squad. As was the Iottian way, everyone had some arcane talent. Strangely, none were Iottian, although Remy did not learn that for months.
A Grean elementalist and water combat expert, a human armored caster, a blackbattle warlock, a Amatine gnome crossbow specialist, an elven draconic sorcerer, a Sandoo shadow caster, and their leader a Horarian assassin named Maleek. He named them: Shino Yattsuno Tsu, which Remy came to learn meant something along the lines of the Eight Means to Magically die. He smiled at the fear the name must invoke.
They lived in luxury when not working. The best Iott had to offer was made available to them. They lived on an estate, not in the cities, so as to maintain their covert status. They had few missions, perhaps one every four months. Teleporting in and teleporting out in under ten minutes was the order. Only plans that could be completed in that time would be approved by their handler. No children, no Iottian citizens. Capture was preferable to execution. Remy's talent often made capture a possibility. In the first two years, it was only a mission to Icefia that resulted in death as the stubborn man would not yield. He was made to look like he had fallen ill to a rare disease.
After the barbaric allies of Gneon the Loon of the Plateau broke magic, Shino Yattsuno Tsu did nothing for nearly a year. It was a boring time. There was a lot of fighting, and on two occasions one of the group had to be brought back from the dead after a duel went too far. Remy amused himself with the prisoners they had kept.
A year after the day, their missions came quickly. They were now to go into the world and travel, receiving missions via sending and waiting after one was complete, which could take weeks. From Yellowia to Loahk, then from Hertoplowis to the Great Forest, and through the Destroytian Peninsula. Their targets were organizers and planners. Death was now the order. Remy left fear where ever he went, the others left their own marks. Faster than any other group, they learned the new ways of magic.
When Kallark rose to power, the missions changed again. Teleporting again, Shino Yattsuno Tsu was the magic missile in the back when the fireball in the face was not appropriate. More than once, the target was shocked when they appeared to circumvent protections that were in place. They came to understand that not being Iottian was an advantage they had for which some targets had not prepared.
When the plagues came, they slowed their missions. The whole world seemed to slow. More caution was taken and some of them members, now wealthy and weary, did not take assignments with as much vigor. None had yet perished and they thought themselves invincible. In 809, they were assigned their most difficult mission, an incursion into Amansky.
Months of planning went into it. The jungle nation had fared better than any other since the reign of Iott began. Its power was unknown. It had refused every parley and inquiry from Iott, but it had also not given aid to its enemies. But it was a safe haven, and Iott was certain being used by its enemies as cover to hide.
It became known in Amansky as Le Settimane Del Terrore, but because of the private ways of the nation, it was not well known elsewhere. For weeks Shino Yattsuno Tsu roamed the nation. When the came across foreigners, they dealt with them. When the came across Amanskites, they terrified them. No agents of the nation could deal with them. They were unchecked, unstoppable. When they completed their assignment, they returned to Iott.
Remy grew weary of the life in Iott, and too much time with the same seven people wore on him. The feelings were mutual. By 812, Shino Yattsuno Tsu demanded an audience with Lyla. It was a demand they could not refuse. The beast Iott had created was matched by few powers in Iott. Only Lyla was able to convince them on one final mission. One they would never complete. Kill Re'Alpf, decades long thorn in the side of Iott quest for order.
When Kallark died, they had not completed their mission, but not through lack of trying. Shino Yattsuno Tsu left Iott. They had all the skill and wealth of Iott. Now they set their own mission. Now they had no masters.
Fighter 4 / Bard 7 / Lamdelcrante 10
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