Toko
A wood elf orphan raised by Keshish lizard folk. Their mannerisms are a little like lizardfolks', and they're an extremely uninteresting speaker to non-reptilian peoples. After killing a mark in a botched thieving attempt, they slowly embarked on a career of professional murder as a freelance assassin. However, after *not* killing a mark, in a botched assassination attempt their former handlers, The Hungry Teeth have been hunting them.
Toko grew up in a chaotic environment. It was filled with displays of love and understanding and unresolved pain. Toko adapted by becoming adaptable. Although Toko looks different than, well, everyone, Toko can keep anyone at a constant state of both ease and unease, creating a persona so startlingly boring that they are just avoided. Everyone sees them, everyone hears them when they speak, and yet they are so uninteresting that no one engages. Toko is the most unintentionally secretive being ever.
Toko entered the Assassin Workforce by accident. They were doing odd jobs, one of which was disposing of dead bodies following a territorial battle within the forest. As Toko was disposing of the bodies, one lizardfolk happened to still be alive. Toko had a job to do, so Toko kill the already-injured lizardfolk. Lizardfolk understand that life is inherently brutal, which Toko also understands, however, Toko does not get sexually aroused by violence, like most lizardfolk.
Anyways, some leader of some thing saw this, Toko still doesn’t know who this being was, just that they wouldn’t stop talking. They saw this and told Toko they should do that more often. Toko said, O.K. They gave Toko training at a location that Toko is not even really sure about4 and in a few months time5 Toko was a skilled assassin. So it goes.
1 Displays of these emotions are different for lizardfolk than for other races. They may come off as alien and cold. The on thing in common that lizardfolk share with other folks is that Love and Unresolved Pain are often expressed in similar ways.
2It has yet to be determined if Toko is the most unintentional secretive being to EVER exist,
however, the statistical probability of meeting a being more unintentionally secretive than Toko in your* lifetime is .000874%.
*If you are a lizard folk, that likelihood increases to approximately .0036%.
3Toko does, however, get sexually aroused by repetitive sounds. Don’t tell anyone.
4Somewhere near Ksherbsh.
5It was actually for only 7 weeks but it felt longer.
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