SPECIAL ABILITIES Aura (Ex) Has faint auras of both good and chaos.
Chanel Positive Energy (Su) 7/day, 30-ft radius, 1d6, DC 13 (7 remaining)
False Arcanist (Ex) When casting cleric spells, can pretend to be casting arcane spells, as a bard. Doing so requires a Perform check, DC (10 + twice spell level). On a successful check, the DC of a Spellcraft check to identify the source of the spell as divine (as opposed to the apparent arcane source) is 10 higher. On an unsuccessful check, the spell fails.
Liberation (Su) 2 rounds/day. As an immediate action, can ignore any effect that impedes movement, as freedom of movement (2 rounds remaining)
DESCRIPTION
Valeria is striking young woman with dark, wavy hair and slate gray eyes. She is of average height and build. She tends to wear long, flowing skirts, loose-fitting blouses, and several scarves, of typical Varisian fashion. She rarely travels without her lute. Her friends call her Val.
BACKGROUND
Valeria's father is a successful Chelaxian trader who is based out of Kintargo, Cheliax. As a young man, he regularly sailed to Korvosa, in Varisia, on trading business. It was in Korvosa where Valeria's father met and fell in love with her mother, a native Varisian. After their wedding in Korvosa, the two settled back in Kintargo, where they still ply their trade. Growing up in Kintargo allowed a certain degree of freedom from the infernal worship that's the norm in Cheliax, and her mother's not-so-secret devotion to Desna was tolerated.
Valeria was born with signifiant wine stain birthmarks on her left arm, the most prominent of which is a symmetical shape on the back of her left hand that strongly resembles a butterfly. Her mother immediately recognized this as being a sign that Desna had blessed the birth, and she contacted the underground church of Desna operating in Kintargo. As a child, Val loved being at the temple, and became fascinated with and devoted to the church, becoming an acolyte. As she matured, she recognized the danger of worship of chaotic deities in Cheliax (even in a relatively liberal city like Kintargo), and learned to hide her divine abilities behind an act as a bard. When performing, she subtly wove stories of Desna in her music, including a story-song about a conflict between a lilend and a devil: in the story, the devil defeated the lilend, but it was a Pyrrhic victory, and the lilend's cause ultimately prevailed.
Unfortunately, a pair of Hellknights happened to be in the audience of a performance one night, and recognized the anti-Asmodean heresy in her songs. Val was reported, arrested, discovered to be priestess of a chaotic god, and sentenced to a life of slavery. Even as a slave, her rebellious nature caused her owners consternation, yet her masters recognized that she could still be useful. Sold to House Thrune as an expendible operative, Val is reluctantly compliant to her new masters, yet yearns for the day of her own liberation. If she ever escapes, she plans to head north to Varisia, where slavery is not allowed and she can live her life in freedom.
