All righty... Here's a character then!
Name: Assallya Kressair
Nickname: None vocalized in polite company
Age: 84
Gender: Female
Species: Elf
Powers: A skilled sorceress specializing in illusion and enchantment.
Skills: Assallya is a skilled confidence artist, dancer and actress.
Weakness(es): Assallya is definitely weak in physical combat. She prefers to make her enemies fight each other or avoid conflict altogether. Combat is, in her opinon, entirely not worth the return on investment.
Crush: Some would argue that Assallya is completely incapable of love. This is not exactly true.
From: Dungeons and Dragons
Personality: Assallya is normally very friendly but is in reality a complete selfish bitch. After all, people like helping friendly people. Why bother alienating those that would help you? She's even somewhat loyal, unless there's a good reason to stab someone in the back like a chest full of jewels or something else of value.
Bio(optional): 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.
It was with the aide of the Pasha's son 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 claim 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.
Likes: Wealth and Power. Having servants. Lording it over her enemies. Drugs.
Dislikes: Hardship, abstinence, forests, animals and anything related to nature. The undead. The poor.
Other:
Name: Assallya Kressair
Nickname: None vocalized in polite company
Age: 84
Gender: Female
Species: Elf
Powers: A skilled sorceress specializing in illusion and enchantment.
Skills: Assallya is a skilled confidence artist, dancer and actress.
Weakness(es): Assallya is definitely weak in physical combat. She prefers to make her enemies fight each other or avoid conflict altogether. Combat is, in her opinon, entirely not worth the return on investment.
Crush: Some would argue that Assallya is completely incapable of love. This is not exactly true.
From: Dungeons and Dragons
Personality: Assallya is normally very friendly but is in reality a complete selfish bitch. After all, people like helping friendly people. Why bother alienating those that would help you? She's even somewhat loyal, unless there's a good reason to stab someone in the back like a chest full of jewels or something else of value.
Bio(optional): 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.
It was with the aide of the Pasha's son 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 claim 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.
Likes: Wealth and Power. Having servants. Lording it over her enemies. Drugs.
Dislikes: Hardship, abstinence, forests, animals and anything related to nature. The undead. The poor.
Other:
- Assallya's sister, Saeliah, is now a druid somewhere. I never really anticipate them ever meeting again.
- There is a bounty on Assallya's head in Calimshan. It is highly unlikely anyone would chase her this far north.
- Assallya wears a lot of jewelry. However, most with a critical eye will note that most of the gems are semi-precious. They're still worth quite a bit but not a noble's ransom.
