Cadence Qrow/Rose

''"I'm not known for torture, but I do have a thing for hands!" -Cadence''

Overview
Dark, but colorful; friendly, but vengeful; a clown, and yet a curse. Cadence Qrow is a man of many faces, and though his musical and flamboyant nature can paint a whimsical picture, the half-drow behind the mask is a man to be feared. Skilled in the enchanting art of song magic and blessed with the dark power of the Raven Queen, Cadence is driven to avenge the troubled past of himself and his family... but when he isn't cutting hands off of the Pureblood elites, he drifts wherever the threads of fate take him.

Bio
AKA: "Rose/Qrow" "Son of Qrow" "Servant of the Raven Queen"

RACE: Half-Drow

CLASS: Lore Bard / Warlock

AGE: 21

HEIGHT: 6'1

SIGNATURE WEAPONS: Mudslit, Melody, Symphony,

Chilhood
Cadence was originally born in Quimny to Luvon Qrow, a drow ranger of renown, and Maria Rose, a human woman who grew up near Fylarion. Soon after his birth, Luvon would find strange symbols watching over the newborn, and the runes would continue to appear throughout his childhood. Eventually the ranger pursued the creator of the symbols, and was not heard from again. The next time anyone saw him, it would be at the foot of Castle Crtomir, where High Priest Sarvoldis would find him unconscious. Due to Luvon's disappearance, Cadence was not left with many memories of his father, and relied on his mother's stories and songs about him.

The Pureblood Guild had always had their eyes on Maria and her half-drow "demon" of a son, but when whispers of a kidnapping began, the ranger Gage, a long-time friend of Luvon's, stepped in and smuggled the two out of the city. Cadence and his mother made it safely to Mistwood, but Gage paid the price, losing both his eyes to the cult.

Cadence would spend the remainder of his childhood and early adulthood in Mistwood, taking up a job at the Whispering Willow Inn, where he would meet and bar tend for the Bois. He spent much of his time researching monsters, learning the guttural language of goblins, and playing music he learned from his mother. Eventually, Maria Rose would grow deaf, but not before Cadence had become skilled not only in multiple instruments, but in the weaving of song magic.

Meeting the Bois
Cadence would bar tend in the Whispering Willow Inn during the stay of Daskrin and the Ching's, and would become well acquainted with Muk, who was a regular customer. Leonardo Mackintosh likely also made a stop in Mistwood on his journey north, shortly before the events of the campaign.

Initially curious about Daskrin's "molotov shenanigans" Cadence would pursue him into the woods, where the two would battle a dark monstrosity in a dank, druidic cave. It was here that the bard obtained a druid staff that allowed him to speak with beasts; a staff that he would later craft into a mask after his father's death.

Afterwards, the two unlikely heroes would agree to help Muk, the then down-on-his-luck lumberjack, to reach Noogle safely, and this expedition would be Cadence's grand entrance into the world outside his hometown; a town he wouldn't return to until the world outside had been changed.

The Purebloods
Once in Noogle, the Bois were introduced to the existence of the Pureblood Guild, who were violently opposed to Muk's orcishness. Imprisoning or interrogating the cult members they could locate, the Bois eventually learned the location of a Pureblood dungeon in the small farming village of Dawsbury. Hatching a plan, the Bois infiltrated the town's Mardonius Tower, and using the druidic staff obtained earlier, Cadence was able to rally a small army of coyotes to ravage the dungeon and help defeat both Paladin Barrett and his undead.

After this, Cadence would waste no time in Dawsbury; he had learned from the recently opened letters within the half-orc prison that the heart of the Pureblood cult was Quimny, his birthplace. When he arrived there for the first time in nearly twenty years, he was alone; a colorful, masked man with terrifying enthusiasm and two decades of suppressed anger. It wouldn't be long before every Pureblood in town knew his name... and his face.