Nikos Xenakis

Regular Posts : 62 Join date : 2015-01-21

Name: Nikos Xenakis
Gender: Male
Age: mid 30’s
Affiliation: Assassin’s

Physical description: (bullet pointed for concise reading)

Mediterranean complexion, with olive skin, dark hair and startling green eyes.
His hair is long and rather thick – often down and filled with the braids and gold clasps and parts have fused together in dreadlocks.
Nikos is handsome and well-built; standing at 6’2” and corded with muscle.
Generally looks the rough and ready sort with his stubble and choices of attire.
His eyes are lined black – custom to protect them from the sun.
Wears two rings upon his left hand and one upon his left.
Both ears pierced and his arms and back are extensively tattooed.
Has a scar across the bridge of his nose and one narrowly missing his left eye.

Personality: (bullet pointed for concise reading)

Mostly calm and collected Nikos is nonetheless hot blooded and in possession of a vicious temper against those who invoke it – namely, those who harm his followers of whom he is deeply protective.
A courageous and respected leader
Tolerant and farsighted
Smart and with an analytical mind
Ambitious and driven by a lust for glory, riches and a thirst for knowledge.
Very loosely adopts the morality of the Assassins and inhabits the grey area – an aggressive rogue that the Order needs in an age of unreason.
'Eye for an eye’ mentality.

History: (bullet pointed for concise reading)

Born Greek on the Northern island of Corfu.
Both parents belonged to the Hellenic Order of Assassins yet wanted no part in that world once they settled to have a family.
Nikos was never unprepared however, both his parents training him under the guise of preparing for Turkish Sieges.
This didn’t stop him from being kidnapped and sold into child labour on the mainland by the Ottomans.
Lived through the horrendous conditions until he was 18 where he managed to escape thanks to an Assassin raid upon the Templar business.
Escaped with a gang of youths that he had worked with and stowed away on a merchant Charter to Corfu.
Some died from infection or dysentery on the way and he arrived back to his home island having mourned for each one of them.
A daughter of the Ottoman slaver, Semiha, travelled with them – having become smitten with the son of the Assassins.
Settling with her, in the last bulwark of Hellenic people against the Ottomans, they had twin daughters and a son together.
Familial bliss was short lived – the Turks continued their sieges and his family were slaughtered by an undercover operative for the Ottomans – her father having ordered her death if she had defiled her sanctity with a Greek, and an Assassin at that. Nikos hadn’t been there to protect them.
After their deaths, and the deaths of the majority of his friends, he stormed the old sanctuary and demanded audience – the assassins returning him to their fold only out of honour of his parentage, and through them Nikos bled his rage and his grief into steel and shot.
He worked as a ship builder and outfitter by trade and his heart sought escape to the West, far to the West, to the new world. His skill had earned him a formidable rank within the Assassin hierarchy and so he thus earned reprieve to go out into the world.
The turn to piracy was easier than he expected, the morality of the Order never having made much of a lasting impression, but the tenants of freedom and the opportunity to control and make a new life for himself were too good to resist.
He was there when Nassau fell, and carried letters of the Order to allow sanctuary in Tuluum; his high rank and preceding reputation from Greece during the Corfu sieges making him an invaluable mentor to the corned Assassins.
Letters of the resistance in Inagua didn’t take long to arrive in the jungle hideout, and he has been considering participation – having rubbed shoulders with some of the more notorious men and women upon that island.

Extra details:

His ship, The Trident, is one of the fastest sailing the waters in the 18th century – a captured British Man o’ War outfitted with 34 guns and a crew around 125 strong.
Keeps a collection of enemy flags to use with deceptive means.
Knows how to swim, and presses it upon his men to learn.
A more than adept marksman and swordsman.
His skill set, leadership qualities and loyalty commands a respect from allies and enemies alike.
Speaks English, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Spanish.
Possesses a branding from his slaver upon his left shoulder.
Known as the 'Devil of the Mediterranean' or, more simply, ' The Greek'

Regular Posts : 62 Join date : 2015-01-21

So, I have to wait for this to get approved before I RP?

*wishes for quick approval*

Subject: Re: Nikos Xenakis Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:10 am

Approved. Awesome job with the layout.

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