gremlin vibes • spiteful • mischievous • cunning

personality

Zheyim Asyezi was born the only child to a low-middle class family in the city of Dewbourne, in Renly. He was born a tiefling, and always subject to a little discrimination, but he was happy for the most part- until when he was about 5 years old, and his family home was destroyed in a freak explosion and resulting fire. He was the only one who made it out alive, with the help of the family familiar, Kira.
Zheyim lived on the streets of Dewbourne for another three years, fending for himself the best he could and being taken in by a few of the older street kids who didn't have anywhere to go either. Kira kept him safe, found him food and shiny things, and kept him warm at night. He had a natural gift for magic, some racial abilities, but also a sharp mind that was already wanting to unravel things.
When he was 8 years old he met another young tiefling boy by the name of James Harrow, the Red Bandit, who had stobbed by the town with his guardian, Samuel Star (more commonly known as Silver, or the Silver Bandit). Harrow and Zhey hit it off, playing together in the streets for hours, until they are found by Silver passed out in a makeshift haybed in an alleyway. Harrow convinced Silver to bring Zheyim back with them (a magical rogue on the team would be so useful!!) and the three made their way back to Silver and Harrow's home in the Woodnora Mountains. Zhey had officially become the Black Bandit Over the years, Silver trains Harrow and Zhey how to be rogues, to steal and lie and get away with it, and along the way they pick up several more kids- Jacky Swallow (the Yellow Bandit), Sherlock Montague (the Blue Bandit), Johnny Wittleweed (the Green Bandit), and Drizzbelle and Quariel Obladra (the White and Pink Bandits). The group of kids, now with Harrow, the oldest at 13, leading them, left Silver to be more independent and visit the Capital City, Rendermont.
In Rendermont, the group picked up two more bandits- Veth Dayarm (the Grey Bandit), and Raven Nightwhisper (the Purple Bandit). Zheyim... developed a bit of a crush on Veth. Over the next four years they make a bit of a name for themselves as the Bright Bandits, a group of robin-hood style criminal kids who caused trouble for corrupt authorities and gave most of their winnings to the poor and needy and oppressed.
Then, when Zheyim was 16, they had their biggest heist yet- robbing the Royal Bank of Renly. It was a near total success, pulled off without a hitch- until the very end, with Zheyim and Harrow in the vault, when Harrow turned on Zheyim, planted explosives and incriminating evidence on Zhey during their fight, and blew up the bank with Zheyim and the rest of the bandits still in it.
There were over 20 casualties in the explosion. Zheyim was locked in the Vault by Harrow before the bombs went off- he was only able to escape with his life at all because Kira was on the other side and helped him get out. He was injured, though, and caught by the guards as he tried to escape the rubble. Zheyim was arrested and charged with the murders of civilians and the explosion of the bank itself- he was sentenced to execution, but narrowly escaped that as well and went on the run.
Zhey, convinved all his friends were dead and one of his closest friends, someone he considered a brother, had betrayed them for seemingly no reason and killed them all, tried to kill him too, spent the next five years running from the law and the rather large bounty on his head and looking for Harrow at the same time. He left Renly for a year or so, searched parts of the Sword Coast, but in all his searching, driven by spite and anger and guilt and deep, bone crushing grief, was useless. Harrow was nowhere to be found, and he returned to Renly.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, he got a letter addressed to him, from the Once and Certain Meister Corvus Edwane Ratgaven III, inviting him to attend his 500th birthday party at his home, Rothswood Manor, outside Redwater. Zheyim attended this, more out of curiousity and a lack of anything else interesting other than laying low and stealing shit. Corvus was killed during the party, with none of the attendees knowing who did it, and they went on a little investigation into who could have killed the Meister- and whoever discovered the murderer would be given the deeds to the Estate and Rothswood Manor itself, who was sentient.
Zheyim had more pressing matters on his mind though at the time, seeing as one of the other attendees of the party was none other than the Grey Bandit himself, Veth Dayarm, who Zheyim hadn't seen for 5 years- he thought he was dead. And Veth thought Zheyim was truly responsible for the bank explosion, and was terrified of Zhey- until Zheyim could corner him (while Veth was cowering behind a pantry door) and explain that it wasnt him, he didn't kill them, it was Harrow, Veth, please.
After making up with Veth, they and the rest of the party solved the murder of Corvus- he was killed by the sentient manor itself, Rothswood. They got together enough scrolls fo dispel magic from the estate's stores and were able to essentially kill Rothswood by group channeling a very powerful dispel magic into the heart of the manor, Rothswood's center. After they did, 1/5 of the deed to Rothswood Manor, as well as and more importantly the title Once and Certain Meister (which, legally, was the high court wizard and almost if not just as powerful as the King himself). One of the Attendees, Princess Eviee Ren, the actual Princess of Renly, turned on the rest of the party and had the manor surrounded with her royal soldiers and try and apprehend them. The party escaped through a secret tunnel exit, and fled Redwater through a handy little system of teleportation circles in the Open Queen brothel chain.
Now, Zheyim and his party are on the run from the Princess and her various terrifying bounty hunters, but mostly the gunslinging cowboy Lola Reeds, as well as trying to deal with each other and all our respective problems and goals.