Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20160605202324/@comment-5543592-20160608023354

"Hold on-- hidden depression?  Do I look like the type ov' person to have a 'hidden depression'?" He shook his head at her.

"The Crimson Archer was a thing before the Keshik.  My home city, Taneth, had a bunch of uprisings against the nobles.  It was a hungry year, the crop was bad I guess, and this guy, he was pretty crazy, had riled all the peasants up and said they should murder whatever nobles he told them to as revenge.  The king had said for the guards to not interfere-- he didn't want a ful scale rebellion on his hands and, more importantly, didn't want the guy turning on him.  And the king didn't assassinate him either, 'cause he didn't want to create a martyr.  So I thought, 'Well, it'd be pretty bad if all these important people got murdered, given they're all important.  I'd better do something to stop that.'  And wall-a," he gestured to himself, "the Crimson Archer was born.  Didn't want people connecting my face to the Archer, that's why I started wearing this." He held up the mask that was strapped to his armor. "Also because, at that time, my sickness started to take it's toll on me, and made me look real ugly.  So the mask worked two ways.  Anyway, I did a lot of saving nobles, sneaking 'em off or tricking the peasants or sometimes just talking them down.  People really go for the hero archer thing.

That worked for a while, until it got out of hand one time. The peasants had attacked the noble before I'd even showed up, and the guy I was going to protect that night was mean. Lord Yossef. He'd hired a whole private army for himself, and basically just sicced them on the people who were pretty much unarmed. It was a massacre, all those people dying, lots of blood. There was this boy, 'bout your age I guess, and Yossef was going for him, face all mean, had his sword. And I figured the only way to stop it was to, well, ya know, kill Yossef. So I putta arrow through his heart, and he was good and dead. It went pretty much down hill after that."