A Rogue's Tale

The pungent stench of shit wafted through the cold stone cell, where Jax had been trapped for several months. The smell was unfortunately all too familiar to him. Every morning, the same farmer came and dumped a pile of horse manure just a few metres away from the barred 'window' that lit the room he lived in. The room itself was dreadful. The floor stained with fecal matter, dried blood, urine.. god forbid anything else. The walls were all hard stone, with some rotting wooden beams acting as support. They were splintered and shattered beyond recognition. Jax had shared the cell with another man, who wasn't entirely sane. He bashed his brains out on one of the wooden beams a few months ago. To no surprise his blood remained on it, perhaps his grey matter too,Jax didn't really want to know. The bed he had been sleeping on was an itchy brown sack that was filled with hay, atop a raised wooden platform that was attached to the wall. Quite the luxury in a prison like this. It was always bitterly cold in the winter and spring, they were offered no blankets or fresh clothing to help with that either. It really made Jax thankful for the summer months. To his dismay, it was rolling back into Autum, it was around September, or so he assumed, considering the orange tint of the tree's outside. On the other hand, he knee he was to be released today... back into the world. Jax would always ponder upon what may have changed. what did he miss out on? Did people miss him? Jax was quick to remind himself he wouldn't be missed by any, maybe some swoon women... like Delilah. That crazy woman. She was the one who got him stuck in here...

Delilah was the daughter of a very, very prestigious family in Kilnmore. She lived in the upperclass neighbourhood, with all the best stuff to steal, obviously. In fact, Jax also used to live in this part of town. His family was rather well off, but things change, often for the worse.

First, the disappearance of his mother when Jax was around 5. There was no trace of her leaving, no one ever found a body, she simply vanished. He had heard rumours that his own mother was a practitioner of dark magic, a witch essentially. Though common magic was free to be practised by all, dark magic was considered dangerous. Though powerful, many bodies could not handle the flow of mana, often resulting in spontaneous combustion. The ability to control dark magic is simply innate, yet is still rare within the world. It seems to be cloaked in mystery.

After this event, Jax's father spiralled into a depression. Drinking, gambling, , all the usual life ruining things. Obviously he racked up a debt, and by the time Jax was 7, they were booted into Flea bottom... No more life of luxury. He couldn't blame his father much. loosing the love of your life can really mess with a man, and it clearly got the better of him. Now living down in the poverty stricken area, full of crime, , whores, muggers, scammers and alcoholics wasn't an environment that 7 year old Jax, or his dad would ever imagine being in, but they were there now, and it was life changing. His father obviously fell back into drinking and , but Jax adapted. Thankfully he could defend himself, pretty rudimentary, but thanked taking combat lessons in the upper class part of life. This also meant he had a bit of a knack for magic, and by the age of 10, he was blasting muggers in the face with 500 degrees of scorching fire. As fun as this was, 5 years later his father passed away from excessive drinking and use. Jax was hardly phased, as he knew it was coming. With nothing left to tie him down, he began looking for work, the sketchy kind. He found no shortage of it, and began to start stealing, bribing, seducing and fucking his way around, making quite the profit for himself, as well as some ties to very important people. At the age of 20, Jax went in for a big job. They aimed to rob a house in the rich area, owned by Duke Tillworth, who was second in power to the mayor of the entire city. And this is where he met Delilah. As Jax's crew were picking the place clean, Delilah, the daughter of the Duke, had wandered into the kitchen for a midnight snack, she had caught him red handed. His crew noticed and ran immediately, but Delilah was intrigued by the dangerous appeal of Jax, and bribed him to have sex with her, and he certainly wasn't opposed. She was rather freaky, and noisy. So noisy that she woke her father, and he caught them mid fuck. The guards were called immediately, and Jax had no chance to escape. and hence he was jailed for around 2 years. He would have been in there for longer if he wasn't on good terms with the judge who passed his sentence, Jax had done him a couple of jobs before thankfully...

And thats how Jax ended up in this very cell.