Atticus

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Full Name: Atticus Grace
Titles or Nicknames: Attie, Gimpy (The leg has been fixed)
Age: Died at the age of 22.
Race: Human-Forsaken
Gender: Male
Hair: Black, messy, on the long side
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 115 Lbs.
Place of residence: None.
Place of Birth: A small town just outside of Menethil.
Known Relatives: Mother, Susanna, deceased. Wife, Drinn.
Religion/Philosophy: Extremely pragmatic.
Occupation: None.
Guild Rank: Dreadweaver.
Known Associates: Drinn (wife). Nohr (frenemy).
Known Nemesis: Matthias Shaw

Notable Physical Features:
Attie tends to keep his face covered at all times, The bones are badly broken and there are fissures in the skin. The various parts are held together by crude leather straps. In life, he was of average attractiveness, but now there are few that can look directly at his face without quickly looking away. If one were to listen closely, they could hear loose bones clicking in his face whenever he speaks.

Atticus suffered a shattered leg after the plague, and refuses to have a new leg attached. The bones are splinted, but he still walks with a limp. The priestess Fanyare cut open his leg and repaired the bones. Because of this, a long line of stitches runs all the way from his ankle to his hip. He limps when it rains.

Atticus rarely stands up straight. He stoops, leans, sprawls, creeps. He moves with the sloppy grace of a cat on tranquilizers.

Special Skills:
In addition to the usual bag of tricks that all rogues carry, Addikus is a master in the art of transmutation. He’s currently learning how to turn himself into a dragon. He’s also a fine dancer, despite the bad leg.

Positive Personality Traits:
Atticus is generous, sincere, and quick to answer a call for help. He is brave on the battlefield, and has the wisdom of an experienced soldier.

Negative Personality Traits:
Atticus will never submit to any higher authority (though he may lie about this when necessary). He is often self-centered, and forms alliances based on this. He has a biting sense of humor which may not play well with others. He may be cruel to people until they earn his respect.

History Before The Grim:

There are variations of his life story. When asked about his past, Atticus mixes truth and fiction for no other reason than to entertain himself. In some versions of the story, Atticus was a drug-fueled assassin, silently culling the farms surrounding Stratholme the night before Arthas lay siege to the city. In others, he was a poor farmer who died in his basement while pickling beets. The story he tells most commonly is this:

Atticus was born in a coastal town on Kalimdor, where he spent most of his childhood aboard fishing vessels. He is the bastard son of an uneducated prostitute; many of his attitudes and speech patterns reflect this humble upbringing.

After his mother was badly beaten, Atticus found the man and strangled him with a fishing line. It was revealed that the man was a government official, and Atticus went in to hiding during the manhunt that ensued. Eventually, officials decided to publicly execute his mother as a ploy to flush Atticus into the open. It nearly worked, but before Atticus could reach the gallows, a friend stopped him and convinced Attie to run as far away as he could.

He wound up in Stratholme, where he learned how to steal and pick pockets as a means of survival. He picked the wrong pocket one day, and was offered a choice: Either work for the Alliance as a spy, or work on the chain gang.

Eventually, Atticus received formal training under the tutelage of Mathias Shaw, who would later become the leader of Stormwind’s prestigious SI:7. The lowborn Atticus was often ridiculed by city-born recruits, and his abundance of talent only exacerbated their resentment.

Eventually, Atticus and one of his colleagues (Poe) were selected to go undercover among pirates that had been raiding the shipping lines off the coast of Menethil. The objective was to find and eliminate the highly secretive pirate leader.

Atticus and Poe quickly infiltrated the ranks. They participated in several raids, witnessed the murder of many innocents, and plundered goods alongside all the others. Poe lost his sense of identity and his actions became more foul from one raid to the next – until Atticus caught him raping a woman as she bled to death.

Poe, concerned that Atticus would report his misdeeds back to the Alliance, betrayed him to the pirates. Atticus was tied to the mast, Poe was given a sledgehammer. Atticus stared out over the sparkling sea, saw the distant colors of an alliance ship, and blew Poe a kiss before the man bashed his face in.

The blow did not kill Atticus . He woke, covered in bandages, in a prison cell underneath Stratholme. The pirate ship had been taken by the alliance, and now both Attie and Poe were prisoners. Atticus was healed just enough to be alive and coherent, but his wounds were massive and he was in extreme pain.

He begged to see Shaw, so that the man could clear his name and get him out of prison. Instead, Shaw sent a solitary agent to visit Atticus during the night. The agent explained that there was no way the Alliance could be tied to those pirate raids. Atticus would stand trial and be executed in disgrace.

He could, however, offer Atticus one way out.

The man slipped an envelope through the bars of the cell, then left. Atticus opened the envelope and found a vial with a fatal dose of poison. Atticus tossed the vial against the wall and awaited his execution. He swore that if he somehow managed to survive the next day, he would get revenge on four men – the man who hung his mother, Poe, the agent that offered him the poison, and Mathias Shaw himself.

The day of his execution happened to be the same day that Arthas committed what would later be called, “The Culling of Stratholme.” Attie managed to escape during the confusion – but he was badly injured and now poisoned by the same bread that had poisoned the rest of the city. Atticus fled into the woods, dying of the plague two days later.

Atticus rose from the dead and found his way into Sylvanas’s acquaintanceship. The forsaken became part of the Horde, and when the Horde became a little too peaceful, Atticus sought membership with The Grim.

History In The Grim:
Atticus joined the Grim because he believed they could help him find and kill Matthias Shaw. He made friends and enemies, and rose through the ranks to become The Hand – the officer in charge of assaulting the Alliance. He didn’t feel comfortable in a position of leadership, though, and he later resigned.

He mentored a young blood-elf rogue named Drinn – and eventually the two became married. Drinn succeeded him as The Hand, and all was good until it wasn’t. Drinn got in trouble with the Grim leadership and fled from the guild. Atticus , his loyalties divided, chose to follow his wife. The two disappeared into faraway lands.

Several years passed.

Atticus returned to Azeroth, with a renewed interest in killing Shaw. He sought membership among the Grim once more, and after proving his loyalty, the guild accepted him.

Not long after his return, the Irredeemable Khorvis appointed Atticus to the rank of Dreadweaver. Together, they began a new campaign for peace, through annihilation. The culmination of their campaign was the so-called Scalp Hunt, wherein the Grim slew more than forty thousand alliance in the course of a fortnight.

The mantle of Irredeemable passed from Khorvis to Atticus.

Atticus's efforts to assassinate Mathias Shaw failed. He grew weary from the war, and from the increasing tally of broken bones that rattled inside his decaying body.

He passed the mantle of Iredeemable back to the Grim, who awarded it to Fanyare - The elf who had healed his shattered leg.

Atticus spent some months away. Sought his wife. He was surprised to find that they'd abandoned their home. Was even more surprised to find that she'd gone to Azeroth, hunting for him.

When he finally found her, she wore a Grim tabard.

Now Atticus is back among the Grim. He's lost his hope of ever getting revenge on Mathias Shaw. His marriage is in shambles, because of how he abandoned his wife. His body is broken and turning to dust.

He's mean as ever, and getting worse.
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