Symondenalian Niksos

Symondenalian Niksos, an inhabitant of Farrog also known as 'The Knife', was one of the six thieves who made up the group known as the Famous - or as Symon The Knife would have it..."Infamous" - 'Party of Five'. Symondenalian - like all of the 'Party of Five' members - also belonged to the Farrog Thieves' Guild. The Knife reportedly "couldn't recall seeing a back he didn't want to stab". Symon regularly played with his dagger, slipping it back and forth and over and under his hand which was scarred from multiple old and new knife cuts. Since he was the only one of the 'Party of Five' who was ever armed with a weapon, Symondenalian considered himself the chief protector of the group as well as being the one to deliver a coup de grace when one was required.

The de facto leader of the 'Party of Five', Plaintly Grasp, felt that Symon the Knife was very critical and "judgemental" about other people and she told him that she particularly "hated" that about him.

He wore thin leather moccasins.

In The Fiends of Nightmaria

Symondenalian Niksos and the rest of the 'Party of Five' had been collected together at "Pink's Tavern" by Plaintly Grasp. The purpose of the gathering was for the group to plan the recovery of the Head of the Thieves' Guild, Mistress Dam Loudly Heer, who had been arrested two days previously on the orders of the usurper, regicide, and necromancer, King Bauchelain the First, and imprisoned within the Royal Palace of Farrog. After discussion in which Symon actively participated, it was decided that the sextet would that very night infiltrate the Royal Palace, find the Guild Head, and rescue her.

The 'Party of Five's attempt to scale the palace wall left Le Groutt wounded and Mortari seemingly brain damaged before Lurma Spilibus picked the lock of an unguarded old postern gate. Symon impaled his foot when he accidentally dropped his knife. As the sextet moved further and further into the depths of the Royal Palace, they experienced a variety of "alarums and excursions", including an encounter with a masturbating ape-like demon possessed by the Indifferent God. An unexpected meeting with a group of escaping prisoners--Apto Canavalian, Brash Phluster, Steck Marynd, Tulgord Vise, Tiny Chanter, Flea Chanter, and Midge Chanter guided by Seneschal Shartorial Infelance--turned into a brief brawl before the 'Party of Five' could push onwards.

Finally stumbling into Korbal Broach's Chamber of Collections, they encountered Bauchelain's partner in his guise as Farrog's new Grand Bishop. Broach was able to help the 'Party of Five' achieve their stated goal of rescuing the Head of the Thieves Guild by presenting them with Dam Loudly Heer's severed head. Unphased, Plaintly Grasp triumphantly pointed out to her fellow thieves, "That's how it goes on a mission like this one... Nothing seems to go as planned and then, all of a sudden, it's mission accomplished!"

The 'Party of Five' then managed to retrace their steps through the Royal Palace back to the postern gate by which they had originally entered. Returning to the city streets, the band unexpectedly found that chaos reigned in the streets of Farrog. Bauchelain and Korbal Broach had blindly provoked a war with neighbouring Nightmaria and that Imperial Kingdom had sent its overwhelming military forces in response. To clear their escape route to the city's gate, the two necromancers unleashed a horde of undead on their own citizens.

Quotes

Symon 'The Knife': "...I'm a knife fighter! I need to be light on my feet, dancing this way and that, dipping and sliding and weaving, a blur of deadly motion, blades flashing and flickering in the moonlight--"
Lurma Spilibus 'The Fingers': "Just throw the f**king things and run... It's what you always do."
Symon 'The Knife': "What's that supposed to mean?"

[Testy remarks exchanged between the 'Party of Five' members, Symondenalian Niksos and Lurma Spilibus in The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 8]

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