Sondai

Character Full Name: Sondai Silvertongue

Character In-Game Name: Sondai.

Nickname(s): Silvertongue, Sondy.

Association(s): The Horde, Booty Bay, Ratchet, "The Gentlemen".

Race: Orc

Class: Rogue

Skills and Abilities: Sondai has become proficient in the ways of free trade, especially within the Black Markets of Ratchet, Booty Bay and Orgrimmar. Because of the shady nature of his business, he has also become quite skilled in the ways of pickpocketing and sneaking, his small stature playing a very important part in such.

Age: 25

Sex: Male

Hair: A single tuft of brown hair often wrapped in a cloth band. It is often covered by a blackened leather bowler hat, however.

Eyes: Light brown.

Weight: 240lbs.

Height: 6'2"

Usual Garments/Armor: Sondai is often seen wearing his bowler hat, along with a matching outfit, made up of leathers and cloth. Underneath the suit is a single padded leather vest. Wrapped around the sleeves of his shirt are some cloth bandages. He often uses the bandages to hold small weapons, such as knives. He also uses the bandages to hold a single gold coin. If he takes the bandages off, one could see the imprint of the coin on his wrist.

Other: Sondai holds about 3 daggers on his person - two hidden inside the wrist-bandages and one tucked in the side of his left boot. He has also managed to turn his hat into a weapon - the seam is removable to show a few small, sharp razors. This is why he keeps his hat on him, at -all- times.

Standing at somewhat of a short stature, Sondai's brothers almost tower over him. If it weren't for his ability to think and reason logically, he'd be worth nothing more than a Peon. Due to his size, most of his clothing is custom-made to fit his relatively small body.

Alignment: Neutral Chaotic

Personality: If one queried someone about Sondai, their first words would be "He loves chips and money". This is almost entirely true... He also has a love for haggling - not because of it's affiliation with money, but just the thrill. He tends to appreciate the value of fine things, but that said, he's not a penny-pincher. If he wants it, he will more than likely end up buying it.

Based on his size, one might reason that Sondai is a coward. While some may see his back-stabbing ways as cowardly, he does take several risks, often matters of life and death. Since his area of expertise is based on the shady underground markets between Booty Bay and Ratchet, he has little time for friends. The few "friends" he does have are business associates, or clan partners. However, he sticks by his clan partners like family, and aims to protect them as such.

History: Born in the internment camps, Sondai didn't really have an interesting childhood, although, he did learn some trade practices. Since there were other children in the internment camps, he tended to trade food with them, and soon enough, he developed a "silver tongue" in a sense. Often, he'd find small, round bits of metal on the floor - so he collected them. After seeing humans exchanging them for food and the sorts, he began to understand their use: Currency.

After gathering up about ten or so copper coins, he tried to trade with one of the human guards. He saw what the humans were eating compared to what the Orcs were. He approached the guard in question, holding the coins in clear view.

"You gave that human over there five coins for some of those nice-smelling food things, right?" he pointed towards a chef, who at the current time was picking some dirt out of his ear. The human nodded, somewhat understanding where Sondai was going from there.

"If I give you... Ten coins, could you get me some?" he asked. The human found it sort of hard to deny ten copper, especially since his wages were horrible to say the least. He took the money, and bought a small bowl of chips - and handed them to Sondai. Sondai tasted them, wearily, but soon enough he began munching on them happily.

After that, Sondai began looking around for more coins. By now, he was at least fifteen in age, and was barely seen as a child now, his physical form developed as far as it could've. That said, he was still somewhat short. However, he still traded with the human, sometimes acquiring drinks alongside the chips. Soon, however, the internment camps were invaded and destroyed by Thrall and his forces. In the rubble, while Orcs were freed, Sondai saw a small sack, filled not with copper coins, but silver! He grabbed the sack, and began travelling with the Orcs.

Soon enough, he was in Kalimdor. Nothing interesting happened to Sondai until Orgrimmar had been built, though. After the construction was complete, Sondai traded a few of his coins for some clothes which actually fitted him. He left Orgrimmar with a Caravan to Ratchet, where he saw the free-trade markets bustling with opportunity. He began to build up his fortune by buying low, and selling high - it was especially easy among free traders. Soon enough, though, he travelled over to Booty Bay, where he began to delve into the more shady side of business - Drugs, illegal weaponry, and other unspeakable things.

Within this newfound, mysterious trade, Sondai came across quite a few like-minded businessmen who simply called themselves "The Gentlemen". After doing business with them often enough, they took a liking to Sondai, and considered his "silver tongue" a benefit to The Gentlemen. Soon enough, Sondai was working with them as a representative, trading up-front with even shadier characters in the Bay.

Thanks to Sondai's eagerness to make a profit, he climbed the ranks of The Gentlemen, until he eventually began to aid the leader, a Forsaken known as "Raoul", in making a few very profitable decisions. Due to such, was given a generous segment of the clan to manage, as well as a generous cut of the profits.

The Gentlemen eventually began to dissipate, after a few rather grizzly murders of high-ranking individuals, including Raoul. Sondai has made it his duty to restore The Gentlemen to it's once glorious state, through thick and thin, and with the help of his silver tongue.