For Better or For Worse

[BaronBlue]

This story is about a young man named Imek Luciano, a newbie in the assassin organization Wild Cards, who gets into trouble the moment he steps out of his home Half Moon Hold. Even though his adventure starts out rough he comes to meet many new people, go many new places and do many new things that lead him on the path to fulfill a great destiny set for him before he was even born, for better or for worse.
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Here I am, 19 years old, stuck in Ice Blade jail trading Moon Sugar to a druggie for a shiv. It was a rather muddled bunch of events that led to me being imprisoned; i guess it was my fault for trying to help a good man in a hold full of dirty officials and paid-off guards. I didn't think trying to find his fathers murderer would lead to me getting on the bad side of the man holding the purse strings in this corrupt hold.
Anyway, let me introduce myself; Imek Luciano, ace with a bow, quick with swords, light-footed as cat and words smooth as silk and sweet as honey, at least thats how I was known in Half Moon Hold. Here they called me "outsider" and "troublemaker", if they even talked to me instead of simply giving me dirty looks. It wasn't as if I had come here looking for trouble, no, I had only come by to find Aradia's satchel. Aradia is the best Alchemist in Half-Moon, but shes a bit forgetful and left her satchel of expensive alchemical ingredients in Ice Blade; so I came here to retrieve it out of the goodness if my heart and the reward she offered me didn't hurt.
As for how I got in jail, when I got here a man named Eisland asked if I would help him, "I know who you are, you do dirty work but you are strong and honorable for one your age, I need your help." I couldn't possibly turn him down, if he told the wrong person what I do for a living I'd be toast and he seemed like he really needed my help. I followed him to the Temple of Skoll and he told me he wanted to go to the bottom of his fathers murder and gave me the name of a man I was to interrogate about it. That man led me to another man, then to another, and another until I ended up in the home of Gain Ice-blade the man with this hold in the palm of his hand and the guards in his pocket. Needless to say I had a hard time fighting all the men even with the help of Ezaruis, my faithful companion, and after taking more wounds than I could handle I was thrown in this underground jail to work their mines until my execution.
Why am I buying a shiv from this man with drugs? Simple, there is an esteemed war criminal here in these mines, Mordecai Ice-blade the former ruler of Ice Blade Hold. He keeps one small section of the mine to himself, and has a large burly man by the name of Silus "Bone-breaker" gaurding the entrance. I need to see Mordecai so i'll have to talk to Silus and I worry hes just as unfriendly and violent as he looks.

[BaronBlue]

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Holds

Ice Blade Hold- a hold built at the southeast edge of Solitude

Flame Breath- a hold built at the northwest edge of Solitude

Other Places

Temple of Skoll: A large building built into the cliff face that makes up the southeast wall of Ice Blade Hold. People visit this temple to leave offerings at Skoll's altar to satiate the black wolf Skoll so he will not eat the sun or eat the people themselves or their livestock when he is not chasing the sun.

Temple of Hati: A large building built into the cliff face that makes up the northwest wall of Flame Hammer Hold. People visit this temple to leave offerings at Hati's altar to satiate the white wolf Hati so he will not eat the moon or the people themselves or their livestock when he is not chasing the moon.