Roque Airphix

Character name: Roque Airphix
Gender: Male
Race: Goblin
Class: Rogue

Birth region: Mulgore
Specific area/town: Darkmoon Faire
Family: Gilbert Airstream - Father: Darkmoon Faire Carnie. Phixxy Airstream - Mother: Darkmoon Faire Carnie
Known friends or enemies: Orcs of the Red Blade Tribe. The Flying Bolts.
Description: Standing an impressive 3'3" and sporting an awesome green complexion with a vast slick of blue hair. His chin has a red tattoo which was added after Nixx Sprocketspring secretly developed his own line of E.G.E.O.Units. Other visible quirks are the obvious mechanical eyes which again are part of the process of the E.G.E.O. Unit augmentations.

Personality: Often erratic and whimsical. Once on operations a darker, serious side emerges.

History: Born to Gilbert & Shivbolt Airstream whom were Darkmoon Faire carnies, Roque was born when the faire was camped at Mulgore. Travelling around with carnies taught the young Gob to snatch, grab and pinch without being noticed and with a touch of flair added in for Gob measure! On his 4th birthday Roque's parents had a big idea, it would make them the most famous Goblin trapeze artists in all Azeroth. All 3 Gobs practiced day and night for two days and one night, Silas Darkmoon put them top billing stating "..Tha Flying Airstreams will be monumental, gigantic and wonderful….tha crowning jewel in tha Darkmoon helmet of gems". The faire was in Elwynn and soon filled with the denizens of the Alliance, rumours circled the faire about possible royalty turning up so every performer had a shower together. The Airstreams were warming up at out the back of the main tent, Roque was peering inside when he noticed a Gnome step down from the main trapeze, he looked suspicious as he wore a black cape and twizzled his moustache nefariously. The young Gob frowned as his father and mother stepped through the rear tent and proceeded to climb that very Trapeze .

The Flying Airstreams trapeze act was going swimmingly, the crowd was on their feet shouting and clapping, it was the final act, the big one…the double loop-de-loop to flipside-reverse shorty dog leg! Silence fell throughout the main tent, two spotlights spotlighted on both Roque's parents as they stood onto of the trapeze platforms on opposite sides of the tent. Roque looked up at his father standing onto of the trapeze, his mother on the other side, a drum roll began as Gilbert nodded to the crowd and threw himself off, Shivbolt doing the same the opposite side…It was at the point where both trapeze were swinging hard and fast that both apparatus collapsed sending Roques parents to their deaths below…

The years went by and the young Roque now 10 was still pinching, snatching and stealing the foolish visitors to the faire. It was when Roque lifted a wallet from a goblin that his life would change forever. The wallet belonged to Nixx Sprocketspring, his tinkering prowess was the envy of all the Steamwheedle Cartel tinkerers. The wallet was a trap to lure pocket pinchers out,  the reason being to ascertain the best pinchers, lifters, grabbers and stealers and to put them forward for a new secret experimentation to build soldiers for the steamwheedle cartel. The Royal Apothecary Society was at this time experimenting on their own subjects, using the Master Apothecaries knowledge of elixir's, alchemy and other macabre forms of experimentation and paid Nixx Sprocketspring a hefty sum for his engineering skill set to produce the mechanical items needed for the Elixirated Goblinetec Enhanced Organisms. Nixx saw potential in these E.G.E.O.Units and began to secretly experiment on his own versions.

It took Nixx Sprocketspring six months to finalise the augmentations to six subjects, all having the same upgrades and corresponding chin tattoo markings. Roque being the sixth and final subject. These six augmented Goblins were used as weapons against enemies of the cartel, running missions to infiltrate and lift items of value to the cartel, covert operations to eliminate certain individuals or items. the six were designated Covertly Organised Goblins, C.O.G. Squad for short. Time passed and the C.O.G. squad did what they were supposed to do until the day came that Nixx Sprocketspring disbanded the squad sending the six on their own way.

Roque eventually found himself in Booty Bay where you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, it was here that his life as a Sky Pirate began and that he and his crew of 'The Elusive' would set sail amongst the skies of Azeroth.

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