Helick Tander, aka Grease

Helick Tander is a 32 year old assassin currently working for the Cor'a'tai in Cortesia. He is a poisoner by night and a doctor as a front. He is played by Frank Weitzel, the referee.

Early Life
Helick Tander was born in Dourland in the village of Hillmound right on the border of the North. The youngest of 10 abusive brothers and the smallest. At the appropriate age, each of his brothers left to join the local militias or become knights and soldiers under the employment of Duke Henchester, leaving him at home with his ailing parents to care for their meager crops and old sow. Helick was constantly harassed and belittled by his neighbors, calling him a manged coward for not protecting Dourland like his brothers or joining the war effort against the Agralish. Even his parents were disparaging, calling him worthless and weak, even though he was the only one keeping them alive. Eventually their health took a turn for the worst and on one evening, after weeks of agonizing pain, they died.

At the age of 13, Helick sold what possessions his parents had and chartered a boat to Cortesia to start a life as an apprentice. For the better part of a year he found he could not find someone who would take him and as such he lived on the streets with the other homeless children as a beggar and thief, occasionally working as an actor for a theater troupe until he was found by Old Moss, an herbologist and surgeon. Moss took him on as an apprentice and guinea pig, testing new medicines, ointments, and poisons on Helick. Helick endured these trials, often sick and even on the verge of death on a number of occasions. Moss taught him his craft until Helick became so well learned that he was conducting his own experiments.

The Cor'a'tai
Helick found that his passion was poisons and through constant testing due to Moss he was immune to a great deal of them or at the very least incredibly resistant. He began to sell his poisons on the black market, using the name of "Grease" as an alias during these dealings. Eventually this caught the eye of the Cor'a'tai and his apprenticeship was purchased from Moss at the age of 16 by Warwick Deepknife, a Cor'a'tai assassin. Warwick taught him how to kill and how to do it secretly and when he was 18 he became a full fledged assassin for the organization. Now currently at the age of 32, Helick has become an accomplished assassin, getting jobs almost weekly by the Cor'a'tai. To keep up with the workload he has had a number of apprentices, none of which have made it through his tutelage to full fledged assassin.

Overview of Personality
Helick is a proud man with a superiority complex, having suffered from constant mental and physical abuse as a child. He takes great pride in his work and is a sort of perfectionist, taking his jobs extremely serious. If he is not given specific boundaries in his orders, he will use his own standards to judge the acceptable level of action to get the job done. Those standards are often extraordinarily violent and extremely excessive, but he has never left a job undone. He is often looked at with suspicious eyes by members of his own organization as poisoners are often treated with disdain, their art considered untrustworthy even by assassin standards.

Passion Attributes
1. Assassinate a high-profile target.

2. Create the perfect poison.

3. Have the recognition from his peers that he believes he deserves.

4. Become The Keeper of Pain.