Tiep

Tiep was a young horse groom and thief that grew up in various towns and settlements across the Western Heartlands. While he was an orphan for much of his life, Tiep was taken in married couple that traveled town-to-town, earning his keep with some honest work, and other less-than-legitimate activities. The impressionable youth found himself an unwitting asset of the Zhentarim, a fact that threatened the lives and wellbeing of himself and his family.

Description
He was a good looking and charismatic young man, with dark tan skin, short curly black hair and arresting blue eyes. While he filled out more in his teenage years, Tiep was quite thin growing up, making him appear years younger than his actual likely age.

Personality
"Speaking of trouble, Roz, where is Tiep."

- Druhallen asking about his adoptive nephew.

Due to the circumstances in which he grew up, Tiep had an extremely difficult time trusting others, and was nearly as suspicious of arcane magic], despite the profession of his foster father. Having experienced much grief during his youth, Tiep lashed out when his feelings were hurt, especially by those few people in whom he placed his trust. When caught in a lie or otherwise in trouble, Tiep became sullen, deflected blame others, outright lied, and otherwise shirked responsibility for his actions.

Despite these tendencies, Tiep often demonstrated his unique form of consideration for others, especially animals. His sense of morality was not firmly rooted in his character, and often faltered, especially when he was tempted by an easier path in life or promises of getting more out of life for himself.

Activities
Tiep had an impeccable sense of direction and rarely if ever got lost out in the wilderness.

Abilities
When Tiep traveled across the Heartlands with his foster parents and the mage Druhallen, Tiep took on the responsibility of the camp's cook and tended to their mounts. He truly cared for their horses and demonstrated his more nurturing side in his work.

While he took great care with animals, Tiep was held few scruples when spending time with folk of the towns his family traveled through. Always the opportunist, the young rogue spent much of his time gambling, or coming up with schemes to make some extra gold pieces off of traveling traders. He was a compulsive thief, and always took the opportunity to take a little more if he thought it could do so without consequences.

Relationships
While Tiep spent much of his youth alone and fending for himself, he was taken in by a couple that earned their living as travelers-for-hire, the charming mage Galimer, who unbeknownst to both of them was his biological brother, and his newlywed wife Rozt'a. Tiep's foster parents raised him with kindness and goodly values they had developed in life, along with the influence of Galimer's own foster brother, and Rozt'a's former fiancé Druhallen.

Tiep was immediately distrustful of and antagonistic towards the goblin Sheemzher that accompanied him and his family into the mines of Dekanter.

History
Tiep was believed to have been born in the, to the skilled mage of Scornubel Ansoain. Tiep never knew his mother's identity, growing up an orphan on the streets of Berdusk. Around the age of seven he appeared at the temple of Chauntea in the city and was taken in by the ailing guardswoman Rozt'a, as she recovered from losing a child before its birth.

During the, Tied inadvertently picked the pocket of Sememmon, the Lord of Darkhold while the Zhent wizard was passing through the streets of Scornubel in disguise. He manipulated Tiep into becoming an asset of the Zhentarim, in order for the Black Network to keep tabs on his foster-uncle Druhallen.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * The Nether Scroll