Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5262726-20140701002504/@comment-25286356-20140805114917

789Snowbird987 wrote: Don't worry, I've RP'd both here and on "Professional" RP sites.

Name: Tacitus Lanius

Gender: Male

Race: Imperial

Factions: None / connections to College of Winterhold, House Telvanni and Bards' College

Previous Quests: Daedric: The Black Star (NOT Azura's Star), Discerning the Transmundane, A Night to Remember, Blood on the Ice & The Lost Expedition

Civil War Faction: None

Hints and Tips: Certainly. Any King deservant of his title knows better than to rule alone

Other: A Crow named "Dusk" follows him wherever he goes

( I'd like to edit my backstory )

Raised an orphan in the Streets and sewers spanning the Imperial City's hidden underbelly, Tacitus learned early-on how to fend for himself, defend against bullies, and contend himself with whatever he owns, no matter how meager his possessions. At the age of only 12, Lanius had already visited dungeons twice for petty thievery. This gained the attention of a local Dunmeri crime lord known as "Seran". The boy would initially act as a thief and spy, often harassing nobles or forcing their pity upon his orphan background in order for them to invite him to their home, where he would scout the place and report anything valuable to Saren.

Four years later, upon his sixteenth birthday, Tacitus recieved a promotion to Enforcer. Now responsible with implanting Saren's will in the city, Lanius often used his robust physique and grave expression to coerce and intimidate others into "paying tribute".

As Saren's Cartel grew larger and wealthier with every passing year, Tacitus eventually served as Advisor and brew a complicated plot that eventually lead to Saren and himself personally breaking into the White-Gold Tower and steal the original document used during the signing of the White-Gold Concordat. While Saren wanted to keep it as a symbol how skilled they grew, twenty-one-year-old Lanius boldly snatched out of his master's hand and threw over a candle, burning it. While this did not hold any repercussions towards the Empire or Dominion, it fueled Saren's Advisor's rage and determination, setting him along a path to usurp the Dominion.

Saren, beleiving his pupil to have grown into a threat, ordered his execution. However, since Tacitus knew every one of Saren's tricks and even trained most of his assassins, the head of the Cartel met his end at an arrow's head, deep within the Imperial City Sewers following a lengthly chase across the immense city. Now a wanted man all over Cyrodiil, the young man traveled eastward, towards Morrowind with hopes of gaining wisdom and strength from Dunmeri mentors.

He spent nearly six years marauding with a small, rag-tag Ashlander Tribe after defeating their chieftain in a brawl. During this time, Lanius learned how to use a bow, time his footsteps, climb large obstables quickly, and intimidate almost anyone simply by looking them in the eye. The tribe's only Imperial eventually grew bored of a raider's life and realized there was no future in this. As thus, Tacitus once more traveled, but this time he would venture north -- towards Solstheim.

No one truly knows what he did once on the island, but many of whom witnessed his short return to Cyrodiil eleven years later remarked upon his newly-found mastery in Schools of Destruction, Illusion, Conjuration and Restoration. Lanius confirms that he was mentored by an elderly and powerful Telvanni wizard. Some theorize that Cyrodiil's most wanted criminal also trained under A Redoran Officer, whom bestowed upon him harsh discipline, master swordmanship, temperamental control, mental resistance and reverance for Dunmeri deities -- which he still worships to this day.