Name & Gender: Idreon aka Clings-To-Shadow, Male
Race: Argonian
Appearance: Stands 5 feet 11 inches tall on average, but can reach 6 foot 9 inches if he stands up straight and stretches a bit. Idreon is a shadow scale borne some 32 years ago, and hide of dark dark blue scales that may as well be black other than when light hits them just right. His neck, snout and eyes have golden highlight stripes running their length. Between his rather impressive horns, the smaller horns along his brow and jawline, and his narrow saurian snout, many of the man and mere folk think him more bestial than even other argonians based on appearance alone. Like many argonians born in the marshland of home, his feet are not plantigrade, and his tail is stronger and longer than those argonians born far from the marsh. He favors well worked armors of leather, provided flexibility and freedom of movement, but has a set of chitin armor he's fashioned over the years from crabs and spiders, and other such creatures. using a self made harness he's rigged a simple set of straps that fit over his tail and holds a dagger like blade of harsh sharpened ruby affixed to his tail tip.
Weapons: Idreon is a Self taught master of hand to hand combat, having sharpened and refined his skills and methods against man, mere, and all else in his career, but carries a pair of glass daggers, one with a crescent blade, the other with a flat triangular blade. Both of which he pulled off a pair of mere bodyguards during one of his jobs. His tail is rigged with a sharpened gem blade, which when coupled with his limb's abnormal length, strength, and flexibility, makes it a dangerous weapon once he closes the distance. His claws, teeth and horns have all been trained and strengthened since he was young to sharp and durable as any weapon can will often be used as such given the chance. His greatest weapon is an enchanted bow and quiver wrought of what seems to be crude iron with a string of brass cable. The bow's only magical traits other than working when anything of iron shouldn't as a bow, is that it draws it's arrows and instantly nocks them without it's user having to reach into the quiver, the arrow just appearing where it's needed. The quiver however does need refilled like a normal one, and appears as an iron framed leather case with a clasp locking lid to hold the arrows in and protect the fletching from the weather.
Magic: Idreon is skilled in conjuration and alteration schools of magic, as well as destruction, making use of the first and last mostly in combat, the second has proved itself useful time and again both in, and out of, combat. While Idreon can conjure spirits and atronoch's if pressed, his talent in conjuration lays with swift and incredibly nuanced Weapon binding. His skills in destruction are often mixed into his martial efforts, devastating foes from up close before they even realize they face not just steel and claw, but flame and frost as well, thus he hasn't found the need to learn many of the more advanced destruction spells. He's taken up an interest in restoration school in the last half decade, if only to keep his scaly ass alive, and has quickly mastered the basics, and is already mixing this new set of spells into his daily practice and his offensive logistics. While skilled and deceptively capable with many, he has not truly mastered any one school, but rather he has mastered spells within those schools. His birth sign being that of the shadow, Idreon can assert a cloak of invisibility over himself at least once per day, more if he strains himself, though doing so isn't pleasant.
Equipment: Idreon wears a set of darkened leather armor, and a self made tail harness that keeps his tail blade on at nearly all times. His only two magic items consist of his bow/Quiver, and his own travel bag. Much like his daggers, Idreon acquired the magical bag off of a potent mere official during one of his jobs. It's enchantment allowing him to store nearly ludicrous amounts of belongings inside without it filling up. So long as he keeps feeding it soul gems regularly that is. He keeps his bow and quiver inside this bag when he is in town, as well as his chitin armor until he needs it for a bigger fight. He keeps a number of potions stored near the 'top' of the bag when he depletes his magicka or needs something to mend flesh when he can't focus. Beyond this, he keeps a supply of rope, string, and twine on hand, as well as a grappling hook when his claws aren't enough to scale a surface.
Personal history: Idreon was born into conflict, and into his trade, as all shadow scales are. His brood mother was a Shadow scale, as was hers and hers before her. His father was likewise. His blood line was pure in it's purpose and strong, calling for the death of the few to serve the many. Ever since he hatched, Idreon has been trained in all forms of martial talent, as well as how to make the shadows his friend, and locks nothing but a time sink in the pursuit of his missions. By the time he came of age and took his Name, Clings-to-Shadow, he had already developed a habit of attacking from above, using his innate claws and impressive jumping and climbing skills to render nearly any surface a viable launch platform for his attacks, even taking his instructors by surprised twice before they amended their training regime to include " Always look up".
After his training was complete, his career was successful if unnoticed by the public at large until the sanctuary of his clan was purged by the up and coming Morang Tong in a raid. Escaping their hunt and bloody efforts, Idreon was able to elude most of his pursuers, and end those he couldn't. After this, and with the coming of the next morning, Idreon was faced with a choice he never thought he'd have. The choice of finding another clutch of Shadow scales, or to go out and see the world on his own terms. driven by his curiosity, he took the name off a letter found in one of his would be murderer's clothes and thus, as Idreon, left the blackmarsh for the greater lands of Tamriel.
In his time since, he's grown his experience, and refined his skills while adding to his talents. Having spent a few months with a traveling circus, Idreon was forced to become a capable actor affluent speaker, and has since put those talents to either playing up the more bestial preconceptions most mere and men have of his people, or to startling many into a stupor at the refined speech and manners that one would expect from a noble rather than a walking lizard.
A master of arms, Skilled in unconventional use of mediocre magic, professional master of stealth and related talents, capable actor and well practiced mercenary, Idreon finds himself in the imperial city now mostly pulling in day to day work as a spy for the petty noble wives wanting to keep tabs on their husbands, or as muscle for the seedy loan sharks among the working folk. Nearly anything to keep him busy until his reputation spreads to the right circles and gets some prospective client to hire him out.