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About Irene Vesper

Vesper was a young girl of high noble birth whose Chelish family moved from Westcrown to Korvosa amid their home city’s crumbling infrastructure and the threats of new terrors. As a young girl she had peculiar interests and seemed to be able to talk her way into and out of any situation. She talked teachers into less coursework. She played mediator between students. She became something of a vault of secrets and gossip gathered and collected mostly for fun and also for protection. She learned that information in the right hands was more dangerous than any sharpened piece of metal.

These skills were important with peers and for navigating noble society. She managed both without sticking out. Being charming and yet unassuming seemed to come naturally to her. When she was fifteen a young noble, Varian Jeggare, came with his father from Westcrown to conduct a business deal with her father. Irene developed a crush on him though he hardly seemed to notice her and over the course of the next year when there was business to done with the Jeggare she would enclose a letter to Varian. In one of his last letters he mentioned joining the Pathfinders.

Foolish and in love, Vesper followed along. She didn’t even see or hear from him after her announcement that she would be joining too. Her career seemed to be little more than mundane fetch missions for the first few months of her commission. But when she repelled a Bugbear attack on a village with only her words people started to take notice. When she wrapped a Mummy-Pirate-Captain up in her whip to hold him while she explained that sailing around the Eye of Abendego with his crew of Mummy-pirates made exactly no sense she came back to a personal visit from her venture captain to praise her. And when she convinced an adult Blue Dragon to provide water for a dehydrated desert tribe all in the midst of searching for an ancient Osirion kings scepter she found a letter from a wowed Varian Jeggare at her home when she returned.

Over the course of her twelve year career she become somewhat sought after for her negotiating and mediation skills, though she never really appreciated the fame and longed for a time when she could be unassuming, hidden.

Irene retired from the Pathfinders at age twenty-eight and returned home to after her father was accused of murder. She combed the town trying to clear her father’s name and managed to get a confession in private from a fisherman, but the fisherman was murdered by Gaedren Lamm to destroy the evidence. Her father was released, but his reputation was ruined.

She started a wine business to make sure that she didn’t have to depend on her parents dwindling resources. She had kept in contact with Varian Jeggare, now a Venture Captain himself, and used that connection to acquire authentic Chelish grapes from the Jeggare family vineyard. She named her wine and the winery after one of the most prominent mountain ranges in Cheliax, Menador Valley.

She went back to navigating the sultry world of nobles and let her adventuring days fade into obscurity as there’s always new, young heroes in the ranks of the Pathfinders and this was just better for her. She built a rather successful business and gained a fair bit of respect around town, using her position to try and maneuver herself into a position to put Gaedren Lamm.

She was recruited by a mysterious message to join in a mission to save the city and suspects that her being chosen has something to do with her skills and her desire to get Lamm.

Traits
Prehensile Whip: You can use a whip as if it were a rope with a grappling hook at the end. Attaching your whip is a standard action, but detaching it is a full-round action.

Framed: The person framed was a family member, perhaps a father or brother. You managed to trick the fisherman into revealing the truth with your skilled tongue, and thus gain a +2 bonus on Bluff checks.

Contacts: I looked at the recruitment thread and it seemed like you wanted NPCs that were connected to the character that might be used as low level contacts.

Marcelus Rosling is Irene’s fiancée. He knows very little of her time with the Pathfinders or the set of skills that she actually possesses (other than her ability to talk her way in or out of things). They met when because he was contracted as a wine buyer for a tavern, The Dancing Pig. He realizes there’s something the keeps hidden, but respects her need to keep secrets. He’s a tall, dark skinned half-elf with a thin goatee who dresses in rather flashy clothing. Though she has done what she can to learn the city, he knows more people than her and knows the city better.

Ira Vesper is Irene’s father who was framed for murder. He is a kind man whose family made their money through control of dock space and shipping in the city of Westcrown. Their old rival, House Jeggare, has grown to be an enormously wealthy one while Vesper has withered due to the issues in Westcrown. Despite that, their family retains some wealth and respect. He moves his family to Korsova to escape the issues going on back home and because of his Chelish heritage and the lack of trust others have for Cheliax, he is framed for murder. Ira is an older man with most of his hair still thick and dark and neatly trimmed. Hints of gray mark the sides of his temples. He is tall, rather thin and pale with faint blue eyes. Before the murder he was considered a very attractive man for his age, but now most try to avoid looking at him.

Elizabeth Vesper is Irene’s mother who spent much of her time before the murder working at a bakery she runs independently. She has since let most of the control over the bakery lapse into the hands of her assistant Mary Wu. The suspicions cast on her husband tended to make people regard her more with pity than with disdain and she lacks her daugther’s knack for navigating social situations. She has always been rather shy and introverted. Elizabeth looks almost exactly like Irene, though with small creases in her face from age and white streaks running back through her dark red hair.

Varian Jeggare is Vesper’s old crush turned, Pathfinder peer, turned business partner. He’s a homosexual and secretly worships Desna instead of the normal evil deities that would be expected of Chelish nobles. Due to his ability to move things easily through port, she could call on him for supplies if there were a need for something hard to get hold of (Appearance in link).

Mary Wu: is the assistant to Elizabeth Vesper at her bakery who has in recent years taken to running the bakery all together. She and Irene don’t get along and try to have very little contact with one another. She is married and has two kids.