User:Raven Giordano

Raven
Unfortunetly I do not have a picture of Raven at this time.

Raven is a Nord hailing from Skyrim. Born in a travelers tent in the plains of Whiterun to Pyrrha Giordano, Raven spent much of her early life traveling with her mother. Raven was trained as a theif and assassin by her mother and decided to try her luck in Cyrodiil around age 16. After a year of cleaning out pockets and performing assassinations, Raven made her way back to Skyrim only to be captured and detained.

Info
Primary Skills:
 * Sneaking
 * Lockpicking
 * Pickpocketing
 * Archery
 * Daggers

Secondary Skills:
 * Alchemy
 * Enchanting

Contacts:

Shadowmere -- Immortal, Daedric, Vampire horse. Shadowmere was given to Raven when she was sent to track down the Night Mother's Keeper, Cicero

Bio
After escaping Helgen, she decided to follow Hadvar to the nearby town of Riverwood. She decided to make some easy gold. After taking anything of value, Raven returned to the life of traveling. Eventually she made her way north to the city of Windhelm and was less than pleased with how the local Nords treated the Dark Elves and Argonians of the city. Knowing there was nothing major she could do, she decided on helping them with any small task they had, earning their favor. She also made an effort to rob the local Nords and even killed off a few in hopes that with less Nords, the Dunmer and Argonians lives would improve. After spending a while in the city, Raven made her way south she gladly welcomed the transition from frozen wasteland to autumnal forests. Imeidatly after entering the Rift she decided to relax and spend her time hunting. While tracking a bear she found herself outside the gates of Riften. Not wanting to deal with the guard and his "gate tax", Raven snuck into the city through the Black-Briar Meadery, but she soon found herself behind bars when she decided to "sample" some of the mead. After escaping from prison she set doing jobs for anyone with enough coin and eventally aided the Jarl in disrupting a Skooma operation (though not without stealing a bit for herself) and found herself being offered the position of Thane. Seeing this as a way to protect her should see attract the guards attention with her "activities", she accepted and purchesed Honeyside. After a few weeks of dishonestly earning some coin for herself she made her way back to Windhelm after hearing rumors of a boy trying to contact the Dark Brotherhood. She met with the boy, Aventus Aretino, and accepting his contract she "aquired" a horse from the stables and set off to kill Grelod the Kind. A few days after completing the boys contract, she recived a strange letter bareing a black handprint and the words 'We know'. Dismissing it as nothing importent, Raven settled down to sleep only to find herself awakening in a strange location. After learning she owed a debt to the Dark Brotherhood and needed to kill one of three captives in the room, she murdered all three thus gaiing her freedom and an invitation to join the group of assassins. Wasteing no time in finding the sancuary, she began her life as a Dark Brotherhood assassin. After a few contracts, a job and assignment from Astrid, Raven learned she was the Listener, a title she reluctantly accepted. She than proceeded to complete a few more minor contracts from Nazir, and upon returning was sent on what she felt would be the 'greatest test of her skills'. Murdering the emperor's cousin Vittoria Vici at her own wedding, and killing Gaius Maro in Markarth were the first steps in achiveing her ultimate goal, the assassination of the emperor. Upon returning to the sancuary after Maros death, she learned that the Night Mother's keeper, Cicero had gone insane (or at least more so than usual) and attempted to murder Astrid, and injureing Veezara. Astid ordered her to hunt down and end the keepers life, Raven agreed though she felt uneasy with murdering somoen of such importance to the brotherhood. Given the horse Shadowmere, she tracked him down to the snacuary in Dawnstar, and after fighting through the sancuary's spectral guardians, confronted Cicero. Hoping she woulden't regret it, she spared Ciceros life and lied to Astrid about his death. She was now back to paveing the way to the emperors death. Festus Krex sent her to assume the identity of a famous chef known only as, the Gourmet. She learned the identity from a cook at the Understone Keep in Markarth and, after killing said cook, made for Nightgate Inn where she murdered an Orc by the name of Balagog Gro-Nolob and dumped his body in the nearby lake. Now it was time for the final plan, after obtaining some Jarrin Root from Astrid, she made her way to Castle Dour and impersonated the Gourmet. As she entered she felt as if something was wrong but tried to ignore it in order to complete her task. After instructing the chef Gianna on how to prepare the dish, Raven (deciding to keep the root for herself) followed the chef and assassinated who she belived was the emperor and escaped through the nearby door. Her earlier suspicions were confirmed when three Penitus Oculatus Agents and Gaius Maro's father who revealed that the dead emperor was a decoy and that a member of the brotherhood had betrayed her. He told Raven of his plan to destroy the other assassins and left the three Agents to finish her off. Raven (furious at this new information) viciously cut through them all before making her way to where she'd left Shadowmere and quickly riding back to the sancuary. Upon arriveing at the sancuary and killing some more Agents, she found the body of Festus Krex pinned to a tree with arrows. Making her way inside she was met with smoke and fire. Killing several more agents she found Veezaras dead body, and witnessed the final moments of Arnbjorns life. She continued on and found the bodies of Gabriella and Lis before finally aiding Nazir against the last few agents. The two made their way to where the Night Mothers coffin was located and became trapped. Hearing the Night Mother beckoning her into the coffin, Raven entered and passed out before being awoken to Nazir and Babette. Just before exiting the coffin, Raven was instructed to locate Astrid who was somewhere in the sancuary. After locateing Astrid, learning she betrayed everyone, and obtaining the Blade of Woe, Raven killed Astrid and continued with the task of murdering the emperor. After learning the emperor was on his boat (and killing Maro) Raven viciously slaughtered the crewmen and agents before reaching the chambers of Emperor Titus Mede II. After listening to him talk, Raven beheaded the man and reported her sucess and used the awarded 20,000 gold to renovate the Dawnstar Sanctuary. After visiting the newly renovated sanctuary and leaveing she was greeted by Cicero who reassumed his duty as Keeper. Raven took a break after all this to do some exploreing and locate new treasures.