Rift: Planes of Telara New Class Assassin Comes! Watch out For Surprise Attacks

Assassin - "I breathe shadow, caress with fingers of razor-sharp steel, and weep tears of poison. Mine is the name of your sudden, messy death."

Overview

Masters of subtlety and subterfuge, an Assassin's ability to walk in the shadows allows them to bypass obstacles and launch devastating surprise attacks. A rare few victims survive the initial assault, only to succumb to virulent poisons.

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Strengths

Assassins are trained to meld with the shadows, bypassing defenses and launching potent surprise attacks with their poisoned blades.

Weaknesses

Assassins must choose their targets carefully, or wind up in desperate straits if they forfeit the element of surprise or attack a foe who can shrug off the venom from their blades.

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Background

The dwarf Veseslav grew up in the shadows of Hammerknell knowing one truth: the queen had killed his mother, and one day she would die for it. Veseslav's father was King of Hammerknell, his mother one of the queen's comely handmaidens. The jealous queen had the young woman murdered, but not before the child could be spirited away.

Veseslav was taken in by his mother's brother, Bogdan, who made his living cutting short the lives of others. As Bogdan's apprentice, Veseslav's daggers became faster, his movements less detectable, his poisons deadlier than his uncle's. The young dwarf developed a particularly nasty poison all his own, and named it Ursula, after the queen.

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