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Anto Singh Feagh, known by his given name Anto or his ''nom de guerre'' "Whip" (so-called for his stature and not, say, a tool preference), is a late-20's man originally from [[Iros Forge]]. He | Anto Singh Feagh, known by his given name Anto or his ''nom de guerre'' "Whip" (so-called for his stature and not, say, a tool preference), is a late-20's man originally from [[Iros Forge]]. He recently lived in [[Wydmoor]], trading as a bondsman and bounty hunter who specialized in tracking down arcane magic users. Rare as those may be, his practice was characterized by semi-lucrative spurts punctuating long lulls spent studying the arcane, performing odd jobs, and drinking. Throughout, he remained very close with his family, who had since migrated to one of the farming hamlets that supply Wydmoor, despite his work seeing him away from them for extended periods at a time. He currently travels with a [[:Category:Bounty Hunters|group of meddlers]] who have come to have a very personal and frankly unhealthy relationship with a local [[Neo-Alexandrians|crazy blood cult]]. | ||
==Childhood== | ==Highlights for Busy People== | ||
* Grew up son of two red iron miners in [[Iros Forge]]. | |||
** Has no love for powerful people and generally feels shit upon for no good reason. | |||
* Parents' bodies both broken by the work. Mother has started showing symptoms of [[Red Retch|red retch]], for which there is no known cure. | |||
* Parents angled for cobbling apprenticeship, and were pissed when he later abandoned it for much more dangerous work. It was long ago now, though. | |||
* Sister got a bad injury fighting for Odessa. | |||
* Went agog over stories from a shifty bounty hunter and dropped everything to follow him around and learn the trade. | |||
* Shifty bounty hunter disappeared abruptly one day, Whip is still looking for him. | |||
* Family eventually uprooted to Wydmoor when they could no longer mine. They live off money from Whip and income from odd jobs. | |||
* Whip sends most of his money back to his family. He drinks the rest. | |||
* [[Joana]] is a longtime professional acquaintance, a relationship only mildly marred by her recent transformation into a demon. | |||
* Exiled from Wydmoor for ''crimes''. | |||
==Long-Form Novel Shit for Bored People== | |||
===Childhood=== | |||
[[Garen]] and [[Tilde]] both worked the [[Iros Forge|Odessan red iron mines]]. They liked to say that they met when they both reached for the same pickaxe, which might even be true. Whatever the circumstances, Tilde was pregnant and married shortly after, in that order. Their first was [[Illed]], and [[Anto]] the second, and he came with a complication that left the family with no more offspring. Luckily, both children grew up healthy and free of calamity, and while they might have been a bit more short-handed around the house than they'd like, they were all the closer for it. | [[Garen]] and [[Tilde]] both worked the [[Iros Forge|Odessan red iron mines]]. They liked to say that they met when they both reached for the same pickaxe, which might even be true. Whatever the circumstances, Tilde was pregnant and married shortly after, in that order. Their first was [[Illed]], and [[Anto]] the second, and he came with a complication that left the family with no more offspring. Luckily, both children grew up healthy and free of calamity, and while they might have been a bit more short-handed around the house than they'd like, they were all the closer for it. | ||
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Anto left a note for his family, leaving before any of them had risen. | Anto left a note for his family, leaving before any of them had risen. | ||
==The Bounty Hunter's Squire== | ===The Bounty Hunter's Squire=== | ||
The adventurer never said their name, or indeed, anything at all, but Anto would eventually find that other people referred to them as Whispers. The adventurer communicated entirely through notes and gestures, the former always produced without any evidence of writing, and always in tasteful, delicate calligraphy. They would always hide their features beneath a cloak, even in heat, and while Anto starved for any personal detail from them, they always left him wanting. | The adventurer never said their name, or indeed, anything at all, but Anto would eventually find that other people referred to them as Whispers. The adventurer communicated entirely through notes and gestures, the former always produced without any evidence of writing, and always in tasteful, delicate calligraphy. They would always hide their features beneath a cloak, even in heat, and while Anto starved for any personal detail from them, they always left him wanting. | ||
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Quite suddenly his own man, Anto saw no choice but to continue his profession while seeking his former master. He studies strange texts of the arcane and spends what he doesn't on his family or drink on gaining knowledge. He's gone on this way for close to a decade, slowly making contacts and building a reputation for himself as someone moderately capable. In the meantime, his parents' injuries and the imminent exhaustion of the ores in the mines have brought them to move closer to Anto's base of operations. | Quite suddenly his own man, Anto saw no choice but to continue his profession while seeking his former master. He studies strange texts of the arcane and spends what he doesn't on his family or drink on gaining knowledge. He's gone on this way for close to a decade, slowly making contacts and building a reputation for himself as someone moderately capable. In the meantime, his parents' injuries and the imminent exhaustion of the ores in the mines have brought them to move closer to Anto's base of operations. | ||
== | ===Wydmoor=== | ||
Anto did his own work for a while in Wydmoor, under the name "Whip", using what he learned from the adventurer to earn a decent living. With support from his and Illed's earnings (the latter working as a guard), and by supplementing with the occasional odd job, they lived comfortably, and the family still shares a close relationship despite Anto's extended absences. When he saw them last, his parents continued to be in reasonable health, but his sister had developed a cough that, occasionally, would produce blood. Anto still hopes his family can find a cure for her, before it is too late, but has personally felt frustrated that his personal expertise takes him too far out of that realm to contribute directly, and has tried to compensate by throwing what little money he has at them so they can find a cure. In this period, he felt that his abilities had plateaued, and was constantly on the lookout for a job that might break him out of his rut. | |||
Bounty hunting is a small world, so it was inevitable that he and [[Joana Graner|Joana]] would bump into each other. They'd competed occasionally, worked together occasionally, and have generally had a warm professional relationship, although not an incredibly close one, until recently. Secretly, Anto was always jealous of the magical talent he has never fully realized seeming to just come naturally to her. He had always recognized her obvious worth when they found themselves working together, and respected her ability to hold her liquor, as well. | |||
Anto | What free time Anto didn't spend in the tavern or with his family, he spent at the [[Circus Librorum]], a fixture of learning in the town. He made his continuing study of the arcane there, and knew his way around the stacks, but also that he couldn't hold a candle to its founders for generalized magical knowledge. He also respected their attitude toward their work, even if he found their environs and personalities suffocating. | ||
===The Blood Cultists=== | |||
After getting a lead on a job with [[Joana]] and joining her on a job to track down a [[:Category:Bounty Hunters: The Missing Book|book]] missing from the Circus, he has most recently been involved in several battles to the death, met an [[Wan-wu of the West|extraplanar mind-reader]], confronted some of the [[Bounty Hunters - Session 6|remnants of the region's violent past]], become [[Bounty Hunters - Session 8|exiled]], conversed with an [[Bounty Hunters - Session 10|ancient lizard mummy]] and fight an immortal hydra, [[Bounty Hunters - Session 12|gotten captured]], escaped, and seen Joana [[Bounty Hunters - Session 13|stand next to her corpse]]. As dangerous as it's been, he's never felt more alive, and will see it through for as long as that's the case. | |||
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