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    Ruikia Gearspinner : BIO

    Name: Ruikia Gearspinner
    Age: 21
    Race: Goblin
    Gender: Male
    Class: Hunter - leaning into a tinker (explained in backstory)

    Back story

    Ruikia Gearspinner was born like many goblin children were during the heavy times of trade with the horde in the second war. In a seedy inn at a goblin trade port.
    He was brought up in a rough world of war and new beginnings and sudden endings for many races and cultures in Azeroth.Although Ruikia lernt to adapt to the evergrowing and tense world of trade,survival and war. His family was not the biggest or most wealthy family within the goblin world but they were well known to be a very trade worthy and a friendly family. Many of the Gearspinners would act a front men and spokespeople for the trade princes which gave them many links to the wealthy world of the goblins. To avoid the war during his childhood ,Ruikia was sent to undermine on the island of Kezan to live with his very old and slightly insane grandfather, Marvon Gearspinner.

    Ruikia became engulfed and fascinated by the thriving metropolis of undermine that started up his own gadget store with his grandfather by the age of 14. His enjoyment of creating small little doodads and upgrades to weapons and mundane objects to give them a surprise element or plainly just to make them more fun was his passion. All was well for the young goblin, but Marvon couldn't hold his hidden knowledge any longer. He eventually got through the mindless rambling and told Ruikia the truth. His family had gone missing out at sea long ago, reports from Tol barad coast watchers say a goblin fleet where caught many years ago but their outcome was a distant memory. The already small numbered family of the Gearspinners was reduced to just Ruikia and Marvon, they would be lucky to find any others.

    At the age of 16, Ruikia decided to close his small shop and travel around the numerous ports and towns around Azeroth and act as a merchant and hired hand. Trade life was becoming harder within the great city and the other races where no longer retaining their connections to the island , but rather trading amongst themselves. Some goblin leaders caught on quickly and built inland towns but many where left dry and felt the economic downfall of Kezan. Ruikia took his grandfather Marvon with him but he would scare customers away with magical antics and was only getting more insane day by day. Ruikia knew it was common for goblins to just kick idiots like him to the curb but he couldn't do it. So he gave him some gold,food,water,map and left him in the port of booty bay.

    Booty bay actually became quite the home for Ruikia, he decided he couldn't fully leave his only remaining relative that quickly so he rented a small shack, and partnered with a small engineering supply company who ran a boat to kalimdor supplying the goblins there in the port town of Ratchet. But Ruikia soon learned the goblins here where far more slimy and dodgy than they had been, but after a few visits to Ratchet as well it seemed all goblins where far more dirty people. His shop was hardly noticeable and he was only selling the odd craft to his usual customers. He soon found the only way to survive here was to follow the rest and work dirty. Booty bay had a reputation of being a very seedy pirate port , as he soon found most goblins enjoyed the pirates lifestyle and caught on quickly, hookers,gambling,drinking and theft was the usual night life. For a while he managed to hock onto the ropes of how the town worked and how to get ahead, a few underground jobs and favours for the drunken idiots every night paid well, and his gadget shop soon became a much more well off business. He latter checked in on Marvon, and even though his sanity was far from there, he had became a sort of local mystic and fortune teller but somehow Ruikia was happy that he was all right but it wasn't safe.

    Age 19, Ruikia Gearspinner decided to pack up shop and move back to the merchant life as whispers of new alliances within the races where forming but new tensions around leaders of the two factions where also arising. With his foundations set within the trade world he could leave and finally set off as an adventurer. He found trading with the horde a personal preference but always kept a certain distance, to keep his ties with some alliance members too. Although recently he broke his trade routes off with his previous businesses but retains a good reputation with previous ventures for safe reasons.

    Ruikia travelled back to Kezan before setting off around Azeroth only to find his home changed into a large industrial steam city, the Bilgewater port. As a driven adventurer he made contact with the leaders of the cartel to find out the changes within the goblin island of Kezan as it was becoming a much darker and isolated place. The new "leader" Gallywix was promoting and idea to take the land of aszhzara to gain large profit with the horde and to set an inland base, but the plan was still sceptical. Ruikia liked the idea but his instincts told him not to trust him. Now at the age of 21 Ruikia is venturing the world and casually upgrading the odd weapon and selling gadgets to other travellers and larger trade companies in cities. He seems to be well liked by Gallywix, now, and is called every now again to do the odd job for his cartel. But with slight commitment issues he tries not to be fully affiliated with the Bilgewater group.


    Personality
    Ruikia Gearspinner is a bit different to most goblins because he has always had a caring side. Throughout his early childhood and family influence he has been brought up as the kinder goblin in society. But his teenage years in various ports and town and finally the seedy pirate life of booty bay has taken its toll on him and have exposed him to the dirty life that the goblins lead, pushing Ruikia into a few "under the table" deals and tasks to get ahead in the world. This has influenced him into a much grimmer personality but he remains optimistic and extremely cheerful. Although overall he does have a darker side to him, he still shows hints of his past ways and is usually polite to most people he meets.

    Appearance
    Ruikia is a little bellow average height for a goblin man but its nothing too noticeable.
    He has light brown hair, usually spiky with a fringe.
    He usually wears light jewellery , studs and a tooth necklace.
    His skin is a yellowish green.

    Hobbies-likes/dislikes
    Being surrounded by a port lifestlye for most of his life , he naturally finds fishing amusing, social life of a pub and inns are also a big part of his daily life. Along with trading, hunting and tinkering with small little gadgets.
    Dislikes: being confronted about his family or being taken advantage of.


    Strengths/weaknesses
    - Good aim with ranged weapons-naturally lead him into a ranger fighter being around weapon gadgets and dealing with pirates living in a port.
    -good haggler , sweet talker across the table.
    -Well liked by most and extremely social
    -brain over brawn

    -Gives into the low life seedy life of bars/pubs/pirates/trade if the need be, usually the path he will take rather than sticking a bad week out at the store.
    -not very strong, wouldn't last very long in melee combat.
    -a fool for magical items, spells etc, although fascinated with them he seems to be jinxed by them and something usually goes wrong , Ruikia and magic never seem to mix well.
    -commitment issues to specific factions mainly keeping everyone on his good side , but he cant keep to one group or place for long.

    Travels
    Ruikia is no longer tied to any stores or trade companies. He does still tinker with gadgets and works as an engineer for himself and friends but his business days are in the past. Ruikia is a lone wolf and has a strong passion for adventuring. Although he doesn't usually specify to everyone all his encounters with particular zones and towns, he usually has some experience that he is remembered for , good and bad .





    Thank you for reading my bio.Im terribly sorry for grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes. Please give feed back this is my first go at RP in any way ,shape or form
    Last edited by Precursor; 2010-11-01 at 08:41 AM.

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    I Like him, he seems like the social club owner goblin, like the kinda one with a bit of an entourage haha. Im not so hot on suggestions, for that I'll hand it over to Elyaan for that or anyone else for that matter.

    But IMO, I like it.

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    Just cleaned it up a little, i might add a small section about his relationship with his grandfather. Also added how he is eventually linked with the goblins of the horde, obvious hinting towards being part of the bilgewater cartel soon.

    Thanks for the feedback !, yes i do suppose he is a very social character

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    I'm really busy at the moment, but I'll give it a read over either tonight or tomorrow.

    Edit: I've had a read over, and I see no issues whatsoever. It actually seems perfect, aside from the grammatical issues and spelling mistakes. I like how he's simple, keeping to goblin society, and not getting too involved with the outside world. Also, how he's not a regular goblin, yet he actually cares for his grandfather.

    Well then, looking forward to roleplaying with you, and welcome to the forums!
    Last edited by ELYPOP; 2010-10-24 at 05:22 PM.

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    Thank you very much

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