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Weapon Finesse: (1st lvel feat)

Two-Weapon Fighting (Human bonus trait)
Reduced panalty for using two weapons

River Rat:
+ 1 Swim, +1 Damage with Dagger

Jenivere Crew:
+1 Climb

Sneak Attack:
+1d6 when opponent denied dex or flanked

Expert Acrobat: (replaces trapfinding)
Light Armour: No armour penalty to Acrobatics, Climb, Fly, Slight of Hand and Stealth.
No Armour: +2 Acrobatics and Fly.

(12 per level)

Acrobatics +8 (+10 in no armour)
Appraise +3
Bluff +6
Climb +5
Diplomacy +2
Disable Device +8
Disguise +6
Escape Artist +8
Perception +3
Perform (Dance) +6
Ride +3
Sense Motive -1
Slight of Hand +8
Stealth +8
Survival -1
Swim +5
Use Magic Device +6

Light Load: 33 lbs or less (38 with MW Backpack)
Medium Load: 34 - 66 lbs (39 - 76 with MW Backpack)
Heavy Load: 67 - 100 lbs (77 - 115 with MW Backpack)

Worn
... Sailors Clothes
... Leather Armour (15 lbs.) - 10gp
... 4 Daggers (4 x 1 lb. = 4 lbs.) - 3 x 2gp = 6gp

2 Wrist Sheaths (spring loaded): immediate action to release, +2 Slight of Hand vs. Perception to find if frisked - (2 x 2lbs = 4 lbs) 2 x 5GP = 10GP
... 2 Daggers (1 lb x 2 = 2 lbs) - 2 x 2gp = 4gp

... Kapenia (Varisian Family Scarf)Pocketed Scarf: +4 Slight of Hand to hide objects (1/2 lb.) - 8gp
... Thieves Tools: (1 lb.) - 30gp
... Night Tea (1 month worth) - 3gp

Belt Pouch (½ lb.) - 1gp
... Marbles DC 10 Reflex Save or prone, ½ speed = no check (2 lbs.) - 1sp

Backpack (Masterwork) (treat Str as 1 higher for load.) - 4 lbs.

... Soap (1/2 lb) - 1cp
... Night tea (4 month worth) - 12gp
... Hammock (2 lbs.)
... Blanket (common) (1 lb.) - 2sp
... Trail Rations (1 Day)
... Sack (Empty)
... Flint and Steel
... Fishhook - 1sp

Total Weight: 34.5 lbs. (Light Load)
Total Cost: 127gp 4sp 1cp
Remaining Wealth: 12gp 5sp 9cp

Asashandra (Asasha) was born in the Shingles of Old Korvosa, overlooking the Narrows of St. Alika. Asasha's mother Elliantara was a Varisian who had left the wandering life since falling pregnant to Asaha's father, a member of the Sable Company who abandoned her before Asashandra's birth soon after their brief liaison.

Elliantara managed to survive as an acrobatic street performer, bringing the young Asasha into her performances when she was old enough, who soon came outshine her mother. During this time Asasha was adopted, as a mascot and honourary younger "sister" of a gang of youths under the influence of Zariah, an older girl who Elliantara was being paid to train in the Varisian arts of dance, charlatanry and fortune telling and who lived nearby. It was in this gang that Asasha met the brothers Katalin and Kazital.

When Asashandra was eleven, Elliantara was raped, beaten and left for dead by a group of men. Over the next few years Elliantara retreated into drink and Asasha became the sole provider for them both, continuing to perform on the streets with Zariah. It was during one of these performances, whilst Asasha was being held in the air by the older girl, that Zariah manifested her oracular gift for the first time. Zariah was swathed in flames which, whilst leaving Zariah unharmed, burnt Asasha badly across the neck and down the left side of her body. Consumed with guit, Zariah managed to get the wounded girl to a healer who dressed the wound and tried to heal her.

Despite the healer's care the magical wound festered and left a large ugly scar which no one was able to heal. Following this event Asashandra ceased performing for the crowds, embarrassed by her scarring, instead tuning to burglery and pickpocketing, working the crowd whilst Zariah performed her dances.

Asashandra continued to opperate as a petty thief until, at the age of sixteen, she was inevitably caught during an attempted burglery by a young man who, rather than turn her in to the Korvosan Guard, instead tried to rape her. Managing to wriggle free from the man's grasp, Asasha grabbed his dagger and sliced it across his face before escaping, and leaving him with a scar and blinding his left eye.

Unfortunately the man was the son of a minor crimelord and one night, two weeks after these events, Asasha returned home to find her mother lying dead in a pool of blood and a group of toughs waiting to kill her. Managing to escape across the Shingles, Asasha was forced to flee the city, hopping a ship for Magnimar.

Asasha survived for a while on the streets of Magnimar but, when the Jenivere came in to port, she managed to find a position as a cabingirl on the crew.

Since that time Asashandra has been sailing on the Jenivere, acting as a lookout and putting her acrobatic skills to great use high in the rigging.

At first glance Asasha is unlikely to seem like a threat, she has inherited the dark hair and eyes of both her Varisian and Chelixian parents, and has the pale skin of a Chelixian although her soft features recall her Varisian background. Asasha is short (5'1") and slim but toned due to her years as an acrobat and thief, most people she meets assume that she is a good deal younger than her 18 years. Her black hair is roughly cut and short.

Asashandra currently wears loose-fitting, typical street clothes of Korvosa, consisting of black boots and leggings, a long white linen tunic cinched at the waist and a blue fitted jacket. These clothes, combined with her small hips and breasts and her short hair, makes it easy to mistake her, at first glance, for a boy. Around her neck Asashandra wears a red Varisian scarf (pocketed) to hide her scaring. Asasha carries four daggers at her waist (and another two hidden in wrist-sheathes). She also carries her mother's kapenia scarf in her backpack.

Unlike many Korvosans of Varisian stock Asashandra does not have any tatoos, although, when performing, she does decorate her face with red markings which, although meaningless, might be mistaken by those who know little of such things as Varisian symbols.

Asasha is a light-hearted, playful tomboy. Despite having grown up in poor circumstances her habit of landing on her feet, both metaphorically and literially, has resulted in a reckless attitude and the impression that everything will turn out OK in the end.

Asasha doesn't make long term plans, instead she takes each day as it comes and eagerly meets new challanges with a smile and a joke.

Asasha is embarrased by the scars that run from her neck, down her left shoulder and arm to her wrist, and never intentionally lets these be seen by others. These scars have, however left Asasha with a fear of fire. A fear she does her best to hide and to overcome.