Pasha

Good at messing up; currently saving a city

Y'know... I've not been the goodest boy ever, hell, I've known a bit too well the cells in my hometown. Not been proud of everything I've done, but there have been reasons of most things I've done. If I'd find myself in Lerres before meeting Echo and almost dying twice, I'd probably wouldn't have been helping as much as I've been. I'd probably had run away.

I'm Pasha, and I'd said "pleasure to meet you" if it wasn't for the possibility of a cloud of evil magic appearing from the corner at any second. I'm a criminal, not point hiding that fact, my latest job left me and a friend half dead, but a generous soul saved me and then we betrayed them. Now I'm trying to save people in Lerres and keeping for the first time a promise.

Criminal to heroe?

I grow up from poor parents, one leaving me behind and the other one dying at one point. I don't remember most, other than just trying my best scavenging to survive. When I got old enough, a criminal group asked me to join and I did without thinking twice: having a place where I can sleep and food was all I needed to be convinced to do almost anything. It wasn't easy, it wasn't the good path, but it kept me alive, and gave me a big network of people and now loads of people owe me a favour or two.

I meet Ilmas at one point, don't remember when. She was fun, so I stuck around with her. She tended to go to fun risky jobs, and that was what lead us to almost dying. We knew it'd happen at one point, I just had wished it wouldn't have been as painful. The job left us half dead in an alleyway. We were fortunate enough that Echo poor Echo found us and took us to their home to heal us.

It's been pleasant helping people for once. Thankfully, I'm not in my hometown, so these people don't really know my backstory. Except a few, but they happen to owe me favours and its for their best interest that they don't talk shit about me. Would hurt their own reputation.

I've been using these favours to help people, they didn't expect that.

I genuinely regret what happened with Echo. I'm bad at saying no to Ilmas and... it could have given us a lot of money, enough to be comfortable for a few years at least. But, in retrospective, it was an ass move morally, and straight up stupid.

What made us think that we could escape their dimension with one of their animals unharmed? I thought I was smarter than that, but money got to my head.

Ilmas convinced me to steal one of Echo's animals and escape through the portal we came in. Oh, how wrong we were. They found is midway to the portal, we tried fighting them off, I don't know how we thought we'd be able to win. Ilmas ended up losing an arm and an eye, I lost most of my wings and got some magic corruption. Thankfully he sent us back to Ashtara, though they didn't care to heal us before that... which is fair. Ilmas left quite quickly the alleyway, but I couldn't move too well and was having too many thoughts.

Thankfully a healer passed by and saw me. They healed me without asking questions and explained to me the situation of the city and where we were. Now, I can guess they thought I was attacked by a ravager. I decided then that I should find a way to redeem myself, and what better to try help in Lerres. I can't stop the clouds nor the portals, I'm not smart enough to figure it out. But my years as criminal have left me with some knowledge in fights and a skewed sense of preservation, great for putting me in dangerous situations without thinking twice.

Lerres

I think I've been doing well in Lerres. Yes, I've lost some people to the clouds, from which I mostly care about the old man who made me promise to keep the history of the city alive and then asked me to kill him, but I think in general I've done more good than bad. There's a few groups of people I've gathered in safe-ish places, and most of them are still safe. One had to move around.

There's still a lot to do, a lot to help. I'm nowhere close to have redeemed myself still. But, firstly, we have to find a way of surviving the city.