ever
unforgiving
René Carriloux
i remember the day you came. You took me by the wrist, ripped me away from my home.
My family.everything.
you sold me. first to the man who split the flesh off my back while he ruined me.then to the one who drugged me, who let me taste oblivion.over and over, again and again they came, took what they wanted, and left me bleeding.I can still feel how hot your blood ran over my hands.I can smell the copper on the air.you were just the beginning.
The redroot collective
An unassuming apothecary stands at the edge of the Goblet district in Ul'dah. Just inside the doors, the gentle scents of petrichor and exotic botanicals color the air. Anything one could ever need, from common cooking spices to tinctures for complex potions, can be found here.
It's a front.The Redroot Collective is one of the more notorious black market entities, and perhaps Ul'dah's worst kept secret. René is known in underground circles as a ruthless cutthroat who has little in the way of patience.While the collective deals in illicit substances and other ill-gotten gains; it's all done in the name of funding its leader's ultimate objective: culling slavers.
knife block
rainier
René's right hand, Rainier Valeroyant has been with Redroot Collective since its inception. The duskwight is clever, charming, and knows how to spin a lie. While his main purpose is to move product for the Collective, it has also become his burden to keep its leader alive.Rainier feeds René's somnus addiction in the hopes of preventing the man from kiling himself, unintentionally or otherwise.
gideon
René's knife in the dark. The only man to know the duskwight from the inside out. Theirs is a twisted, sordid entanglement that has resulted in just as many black eyes as quiet nights.Gideon has killed for René, saved the man's life, and torn his heart in half.But an addict will always come back for more.
d'asa
D'asa Tia, after abandoning his tribe in favor of sating his wanderlust, was caught attempting to pick René's pocket. The miqote was given the option of working for the Collective or losing half his fingers.He chose the former.D'asa now travels the star in search of the rare, the valuable, and the coveted to sell through black market contacts. Despite his involuntary start, D'asa remains loyal to the Collective and its leader.
aurélin
Delicate hands and soft, pleading eyes might give one the impression The Lotus is as gentle as he is beautiful.Make no mistake; Aurélin Levesque is one of the sharpest knives in the block.Though he can be found most often serving as an Attendant and Head of House for The Gilded Asp, Aurélin has been silencing slave traders and other undesirables for years.The best assassins are the ones whose names sit on no one's tongue.
IC =/= OOC
21+ writers onlyThis character is built on mature themes. He struggles with addiction, has a history of sexual abuse, and is unpredictable and occasionally violent.If this is not for you, please refrain from engaging.
Crooked Wood Wailers gave up the location of a small, remote Duskwight commune much as they had several times before. The money was just too good. Who cares what happens to a nameless, faceless clan somewhere deep in the Shroud, anyway? The slavers came with flashing steel and thundering voices. Those who weren't taken in chains were slaughtered.René was among those captured. Hauled away to a far off, sun-bleached city, he was sold on the auction block to a man who would rent him out over and over to those wealthy enough to buy their way beyond right and wrong. At a mere thirteen, René was unprepared for the horrors that awaited him.Along the line, likely as he grew tall and strong, his master began loading him with somnus to keep him pliant. It wasn't the Duskwight's first encounter with the drug; but it was a turning point in a growing addiction.
René took his freedom one night some ten years after first arriving at his master's estate. With the help of a kitchen matron, he'd absconded with a fileting knife and waited for just the right moment. The time came when the fat, balding, opulently dressed highlander himself had passed out under the influence of some mix of intoxicants. The knife slid across his throat like butter and the duskwight was gone.Since then, René has made his way selling illicit substances, building connections, and showing no mercy to those who dare cross him. His growing network of spies, assassins, thieves, and manipulators became the Redroot Collective. The Collective established the apothecary that would become the front for the unlawful end of their activities. All of which are done in the name of René's ultimate objective of eliminating as many slavers as possible before he dies.