My name is Jacob Looper I grew up with no family and had to care for myself from a very young age I don't even remember my own parents faces anymore it's all a blur after I turned seven which is around when I was left in an alley in the capital I later found out. I begged for a few years in the streets like a rat it brings me disgust to even think about honestly then I met this old man one day who in my opinion saved my life. He was a big man at the time to me I was only nine at the time I met him though and too small for my age in all honesty.
He took me home with him and I had a real bath that day in who knew how long then he fed me food that wasn't covered in dirt or something else for once I'll remember that day for my whole life. The old man said he always wanted a son to pass his skills to but never got to have a wife or any family because of the position he was in at the time he was a covert assassin for the royals themselves. He would kill without mercy but only those who deserved it those who didn't were not worth a single stroke of his blade near them in his opinion.
The old man asked me if I'd be willing to stay with him for awhile and perhaps learn his trade. I was very hesitant of course but what could a kid like me do in all honesty I had nothing and no one to turn to for any type of safety other than myself. So on that day which was in fact my tenth birthday actually I chose to accept the old man's offer and take up the blade under his care and guidance. I trained for many years with him and lived with him as his adopted son until a few months after I turned sixteen and he said I needed to experience the world for awhile and then he'd come for me at some point when he knew I was ready hopefully.
I went traveling throughout the realm town after town and city after city not much interested me everything felt the same with every town or city I had explored. There were always bandits and people robbing others and not enough food or money for most people so I tried to help when I could in each place I'd visited. Soon a plague started spreading though after my eighteenth birthday and one night a group of men in black randomly showed up. I killed one of them as soon as I realized I was out numbered why not go down with a fight then I injured 2 more unfortunately 3 were left fine and they grabbed me. I don't know what happened in that time I was unconscious but I know when I woke up I saw the old man in front of me smiling.
He told me it was time to come home where it's safe and that he had a proposal for me. He wanted me to learn to take over his subordinates who I never even knew existed and the fact that he's actually the number one assassin in the whole realm. I could have killed the old man that day for all he had hidden but he was my father in my eyes and some secrets are best left in the dark after all anyway so I forgave the old man and agreed to his request. I of course made him train me even more after I learned who he was though so one day I could beat the number one person and take his spot fairly. Sadly three years later he died and I never beat him but I was the second best assassin so in theory I took his spot to others but in my mind I'll always be second I could never take the old man's spot fairly so it wasn't mine to have.