ESSOS, Xrexes Xhohur

[attr="class","bioheader"]personality.

[attr="class,"bioentry"]Impartiality is the chief aspect of what makes the boy perform well in his function. But it comes at a high cost to him. Due to damage to his brain from a previous injury, he cannot easily experience a broad range of emotions. This means that it's fairly easy for him to be practical however. He rarely if ever holds a grudge or acts out of anger or hatred. This is what makes him reliable in his role as a peddler of info throughout swaths of Essos.
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Trained from a young age, Xrexes is highly reliable. He knows that being counted on and delivering is what earns his gold, and he needs that gold to survive. Another chief aspect however is his secrecy. Sometimes he is paid for his silence and other times he his paid to break it. It depends who is paying what and what will come of it. While he rarely gets involved in the squabbles of his fellow man personally, getting too many customers killed is of course bad for business.
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High threats to civilization are too something that will elicit some measure of preservation from him. Again, he can't have too many potential customers dying. Of course, this secrecy isn't only for those who buy his services, it is for himself as well. High amounts of paranoia fuel a need and desire to remain as anonymous as possible. No one has seen his face. No one knows who he is, and Xrexes intends to keep it that way.
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For as soon as someone knows who's behind the voice, he can no longer guarantee impartiality as he may have to look out for his own survival. Of course it's not as if no one ever sees him. The boy wonders the streets of a number of cities freely. But no one knows of the abilities that he is host to, and he intends for it to never be known either. Being discovered is his greatest fear, and he will kill, or rather have someone killed to protect himself.
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Such a thing is yet to happen however.

[attr="class","bioheader"]history.

[attr="class,"bioentry"]It is unknown, even to him, where he hails from or even what his own name is. Too much trauma has befallen the child for such early memories to remain. Not to mention the current balance and reticence of a plethora of information make such memories impractical and unimportant. He can vaguely remember being dragged to Tyrosh as a very young child, a slave along with his mother taken from some forgotten land, a remnant of a forgotten people.
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Easily recalled are the Bleeding Tower, and the walls of fused black dragon stone that promised him a long life of servitude. The brutality of the slaver that took him and the batch of people he ended up with, brothers and sisters in servitude, of course prompted escape attempts. Too young to know better, or to protest, young Xrexes was dragged along by his mother on one such attempt. Of course Tyrosh is not a city that is easy to leave if you aren't meant to.
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The attempt was doomed. A rain of arrows slew many of those that ran, including his mother. The child himself caught an arrow to the face, a scar he still bears, both on his skin and within his heart. By a blessing of the gods, a miracle of prowess or a combination of he two, young Xrexes survived the wound, but not without consequence. His lack of emotion, or either smiles, tears, or wail of misery was fine with his masters. They considered him broken, docile.
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As further punishment for his attempt, even if he were unable to truly understand what was happening, he was afflicted with testicular castration. Damaged as he was, with no smile gracing his face, and no balls to one day please a partner despite his soft chocolate skin and ivory hair, it looked as if no one would ever desire to own the boy. For more than a year he languished under his captors, beaten and malnourished.
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It wasn't until a robed elder appeared in the markets that anyone took an interest. While other buyers would have ply their potential purchases with various tests and inspections, rather these be physical activity, displays of skill, or just having them stripped to nudity were they to be used for pleasure, this man only asked questions. He gave no indication of approval or disappointment no matter who he quizzed. Xrexes' turn came and went and the man left.
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Two days later he returned and purchased the young child. Perhaps the slave expected a life of scholarly pursuits. What he got was much different however. The boy was isolated from the world around him at first, taken to Lys where the man resided. His first lessons were those of discretion. Then language would come, as he would need to communicate broadly. There were many intermediate teachings until the man, who never game his name revealed the intention of the boy's purchase.
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He was to take a mantle, a title from the elder, as the next in line, his choice to continue into the future, as he had. Taught an obscure form of aeromancy, the one known as a Whisper controlled the flow of clandestine knowledge around Essos. Traveling so that none may ever guess where he resided, the Whisper had various reputations among the continent's various civilizations, better known some places than others. Some thought the Whisper was a spirit.
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Others considered him a Faceless Man, and indeed the elder often contracted for them. The boy spent the remainder of the elder's life learning and mastering his unique aeromancy, mastering to the point of usefulness before he finally died. The transition is known to no one, as while the Whisper has a wide reach, his network is fluid, not close or tight-knit. No customer can ever tell the difference from he over his master. The illusion is maintained, as it shall continue to be until he selects a successor.

[attr="class","bioheader"]inventory.

[attr="class,"bioentry"]THE WHISPER
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An obscure form of aeromancy, Xrexes can manipulate the air to tamper with sound waves. Doing this can bring voices to his ear as long as he is in the same general proximity to whoever he's looking for. He can also amplify things such as footsteps or even heartbeats to subtly keep tabs on a mark's movements. On the flip side of this ability, he can also project sounds or his own voice into the ear of others. This typically sounds like an otherworldly whisper. He can select only one person out of a crowd to hear his message. Manipulating the wind, he can also change the sound of his voice to seem as if he is another age, sex, or nationality, keeping his true identity hidden.
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LINGUIST
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As his work takes him all over, and his livelihood depends on it, various languages are employed to speak to potential customers. While he of course does not know every single language. He can at least converse well enough to exchange information and ideas across most of Essos, though he avoids cities such as Tyrosh and the denizens of Slaver's Bay for obvious reasons. Any number of other cities may enjoy his services however.

[attr="class","bioline"]young

[attr="class","bioline"]male

[attr="class","bioline"]asexual

[attr="class","bioline"]5' 4"

[attr="class","bioline"]125 lbs.

[attr="class","bioline"]lowborn

[attr="class","bioline"]jormungand, johnathan mar

[attr="class","bioline"]sovetskii soryuz

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