Name:Assa'alliyah Kressanthar
Aliases: Assa, Arlanni (While pretending to be a thief), Elspeth (While pretending to be a bard)
Age:93
Race:Sun Elf
Alignment:Neutral Evil
Place of Origin:Greycloak Hills
Gender:Female
Class:Sorceress



Strength:7
Dexterity:14
Constitution:8
Intelligence:14
Wisdom:14
Charisma:18


Height:15 Hands (5'1")
Weight:6.5 Stone (85 lbs)
Build: Slender
Eyes: Azure
Hair: Golden Blonde
Skin Tone: Fair
Racial Abilities: Starlight Vision (Ultravision, UV vision), Immunity to Sleep Effects, Resistant to Enchantments. Despite the racial inclusion of longswords and bows, Assallya was never trained in either.
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Pierced Ears in a half dozen places, navel, nostil. No tattoos.
Day To Day Attire:Assallya prefers her harem attire (depicted above) which involves ebony silks that cast her fair skin into shadow. She quite willingly adapts other styles to blend. When masquerading as a common thief she will dye her hair and wear peasant attire. When masquerading as a bard she wears the attire of a gypsy, long skirts and colourful sashes.
Strengths:
--Assallya has a glib tongue and is an accomplished liar
--Her beauty has resulted in her being spared when the entire rest of her adventuring troupe was slain. It also opens doors otherwise kept closed.
--Knows her way around cities and politics
Weaknesses:
--Small build, easily overpowered through grapples, poor combatant
--Low hit points
--Has no idea how to survive in the wilderness

Friendly * Selfish * Seductive * Cruel

Sexuality:Bi-Sexual, prefers males
Relationship Status:Single
Personality: Assallya Kressair is a charlatan, con-artist, dancer, courtesan, and really whatever role she can think of that gets her by. She is exceedingly good at lying and feigning emotion. Generally, there are two ways to look at any good deed. One could perform such an act out of honest good will but others look upon it as an investment by establishing a bond that can be exploited at a later date. Assallya is of the latter. She is a coward, a braggart and a bully but what she isn't is needlessly cruel nor traitorous. She would not betray her fellows, not unless the reward involved a sum large enough to alter her life substantially. After all, What use is scoring a gem or two in return for a half dozen angry and resourceful adventurers eager to tan your hide?

She'd probably be the first to flee when things went sour and most likely wouldn't last more than a moment before capitulating to torture (particularly if they threaten to mar her appearance) but she's also the type to plan ahead in case she is captured to ensure she wouldn't have any information to divulge. After all, if she betrays all her allies who is left to perform a rescue?

She also has something of a phobia of the undead which are largely immune to her magical abilities. She, thanks to her upbringing, most unlike an elf, despises all things related to nature.
Habits: After decades of life as a pampered slave Assallya hates wearing shoes and prefers being barefoot, she waves her hands with two fingers when greeting someone and unconsciously arranges her body to best advantage to those that might be interested. She has a tendency towards colorful invectives.
Hobbies: Assallya was raised and instructed in the arts and loves to attend any such events. She likes to smoke her hookah to relax and reads voraciously about nearly anything.
Fears: Her most morbid fear is something marring her appearance. If tortured in such a matter she won't hesitate, she'd divulge everything. She also gears the undead, especially spectral undead or those that consume souls and being eaten by large beasts.
Likes: Power, wealth and especially jewelry, getting others to do her work for her, smoking her hookah, long lazy days, music and performance, reading
Dislikes: Incompetence, Paladins, being under someone's thumb, pain, wearing shoes

• Skill: Poisons, Stimulants and Sedatives Assallya is skilled in making drugs, both for recreational use and as a political tool. Note, while she may, may, recognize the symptoms of some poisons she is not skilled in healing.
• Skill: Carousing The art of making friends, getting them to tell you things and otherwise interact with others
• Skill: Dance and Music While not a bard by any means Assallya can play the harp, lyre and sing for her supper. She is much more skilled in dancing, particularly in a seductive manner.
• Skill: Ancient Languages Her slave master insisted Assallya learn all manner of runes, sigils and the like to verify an artifact's true value and to help find other artifacts.
• Skill: Crafting Talismans, Trinkets and Potions Assallya often crafts items. While she can create useful trinkets, the vast majority of which are non-magical entirely or possess a small enchantment to make them a bit more desireable to a prospect mark but otherwise provide no real bonuses. This is one reason she normally travels, to evade disgruntled customers.

• Spell:Detect Poison A minor cantrip that was very useful in her capacity as a food taster for her former master.
• Spell:Detect Magic Another cantrip of use to nearly any magician, causes her to see an aura around magical objects.
• Spell:Mage Hand A very useful cantrip for when you want to grab something just out of reach.
• Spell:Charm Person The classic enchanter's spell ensuring everyone wants to be your friend. Assallya actually prefers to do this naturally since actions out of keeping with their character draw attention to the fact they have been ensorcelled!
• Spell:Sleep The quintessential spell for eliminating groups of weak creatures... and stray allies who are a bit too close to the area of effect.
• Spell:Hypnotic Dance/Pattern While normally a series of glowing glyphs swirling through the air, Assallya can optionally cast this using her own body as the vessel, making those that watch her unable to look away.
• Spell:Color Spray Illusions normally aren't capable of inflicting harm. They can, however, cause a blazing light so bright that it proves blinding.
• Spell:Inferior Invisibility The surprise spell that got her free of her master. Assallya can turn herself invisible. Unfortunately this weaker version does not allow her to turn anything else invisible, not even her clothing.

Assallya lives in a vardo wagon, more commonly known as a gypsy wagon. It contains just about anything one would expect of a small household including a single trade bar of gold behind a hidden panel.
Possessions Generally On Person: Clothing, coin purse, money, etc

• Item: Coin Purse Assallya, seeing herself as easily robbed tries to carry as little coin as possible.
• Item: Jewelry Sporting dozens of rings, bracelets, anklets, and earrings Assallya is highly decorated. All the stones in these pieces of jewelry are semi-precious.

Weapons:

• Item: Jambiya Dagger The traditional curved dagger of those from the Shining Sands
• Item: Sharpened Hair Pins Not useful in combat but handy in tight situations
• Item: Light Crossbow Almost never carried on her person unless she is expecting extreme danger and only then when flight or furtiveness prove impossible

Armor: Base armor only, no magically enhanced items

• None Assallya wears no armour

Pack Contents: Assallya almost never carries a pack. She has, instead a vardo wagon. On top of the wagon are sundries like sacks of potatoes, dried vegetables and the like but generally almost anything found in a normal home will be found here like a frying pan or pots.
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Magical Items:

• Item: Ring of the Unshod A magical toering that protects one's feet as if they were wearing hard leather boots
• Item: Comb of Grooming A few strokes of this magical brush and Assallya's golden curls are made clean as if properly washed, dried and expertly attended to.

Potions:

• Item: Potion of Cure Light Wounds
• Item:Oil of Weapon Enchantment Grants a very minor bonus to a weapon so anointed. More meant to be used in case of some sort of creature immune to normal weapons.
• Item: Potion of Sanctuary Once quaffed, no one may strike at the drinker without severe effort. This benefit is forfeit if the drinker attacks anything.

Creation Materials: Anything used to brew potions or for alchemy

• Item: Mortar and Pestle Made of marble but with several inserts of gold, silver, bronze and more for crushing different magical reagents
• Item: Small Brazier Also used to warm the inside of her vardo wagon it can be used to heat potions
• Item: Glass vessels Various bits for making drugs and potions
• Item: Spell Circle Matt Some spells, incantations and item creation require a specially drawn circle. Hers is drawn upon a large matt that she can unroll when needed
• Item: Small pieces of metal and wood, bits of leather, feathers, etc For making small amulets, bracelets or other "magic" items on the fly.

Parents: Dead, as far as Assallya knows. She naturally assumed they died protecting her when she was taken as a small child. If this proves incorrect she would be stunned.
Siblings: Saeliah, Assallya's older sister was seperated from her at an early age when they were taken and sold into slavery. Though Assallya does not know it, Saeliah was freed and has become a druid.
Childhood: Assallya Kressair was born in the autumn in a small village on the outskirts of Evereska. At the young age of 26 (aprox. 11 or 12 in human years) Zhentish slavers attacked and killed her entire village except for those taken as slaves. Assallya, her sister Saeliah, and several others were transported far across Faerun in order to avoid the elven wrath sure to follow. In the city of Calimshan Assallya and Saeliah were separated when Assallya was purchased be Pasha Alkiel. Head of a powerful group of rogues, Alkiel purchased her as a dancer and concubine for both personal use and for information gathering and blackmail. She then served in Alkiel's bedchamber for the next eight years while being trained in dance, seduction and other roguish arts in order to perform her duties.

She was treated as an object and was given to allies and employees of the Pasha who performed exceptional services. Soon enough, she learned about the many different types of power and discovered that even as a slave she was far from powerless. Succeeding in seducing one of the Pasha's magicians she bid him teach her magic. At first he balked until Assallya cast for him the only thing her father had taught her at that young age, a cantrip. A small thing, it changed the colour of his fingernails, but it was magic none the less. He agreed then, for he was a lonely uncomely man who rarely received a woman to his bed. However, he placed conditions on his tutorial; refusing to train her in combative magics and warning her that should he ever target him with her spells it would mean her death. She surprised all of them by inventing an inferior version of the invisibility spell which allowed her to sneak away from the Pasha's clutches and return undetected. In this way, by filching jewels and prostituting herself she built up savings with a money lender.
Adulthood: It was with the aide of the Pasha's son, Quasim, that she succeeded in poisoning the Pasha, planning on becoming a partner to the successor instead of a slave. With her manipulative mind behind him to advise his passionate power they were sure to bring their competitors to their knees. What she was not expecting was the Pasha's extended family to hire a necromancer to speak with their departed kinsman. He quickly named his murderer and Assallya regretted bragging as he died.

She ran, the Pasha's son giving her a few moments to escape, fearing that she would divulge his involvement which would lead to his family asking him uncomfortable questions. The next few months she moved slowly north, the sands left behind her and the lands becoming more lush and green.
She has since had several adventures, including one in which her entire troupe was wiped out and she was bound, with the intention of bringing her to the slave markets in either the Shining Sands, Thay or in Mulhorand. Luckily she managed to escape her captors before reaching the boats.
Special Moments: Assallya most often thinks of her decades as a slave, likening things she encounters to the culture of Calimshan. Other times she dwells on the previous group of adventurers that fell in battle or the group of thieves she once ran with.
Current Events: Assallya is a wanderer, working to stay ahead of the bounty on her head. As a result she has managed to get herself in a number of odd escapades.

• ☠ Enemy: Pasha Alkiel, Raised from the dead and severely pissed off about being killed
• ⚤ Significant Other: Quasim, while enamoured of Assallya he would likely still be considered an enemy for if his father catches her and learns he was involved in his death he would be most angry
• ♥ Crush: The Pale Hand, a prominent assassin in Westgate. She has helped him and he her several times over. She, however, doesn't even realize that she's in love with him.

Character Quote: "By Sharess' tits!" and "By Myrkul's Shriveled Black Balls" are a pair of her favorite oaths.
Aura Color: Deep Dark Purple
Scent: Floral perfumes that she anoints herself