Dead Man Walking! A Way of the Wicked Campaign Phase III (Inactive)

Game Master bwatford

1. Becoming a Soldier
2. Fiendish Heritage Showing/ Being shut out and betrayed
3. Becoming a Bandit/Sword for Hire
4. Stealing of military supplies to sell to the enemy.
5. Getting tracked down and arrested for Treason.

2. List your character’s goals and things you want to see happen to your character.

1. Revenge
2. Learn to trust again.
3. Revenge
4. Have friends and maybe a new family
5. Revenge
6. amass wealth and power to full the need for revenge :)

3. List two secrets about your character. Keep in mind secrets your character may not know yet.

His devilish blood comes from his mothers side which were part of the chruch of Asmodeus back before the purge.

He has a Grandfather that is Tiefling as well. He was a high priest of Asmoeus before the purge and may still be alive.

4. List three people that are tied to the character through blood, romance or honor. Remember to include positive and negetive reflections.
His Grandfather: He thinks he is dead and knows nothing of him.

His mother: While supportive at first she sided with his father out of fear instead of standing up for the love of her son. She is dead to him.

His fatheer: A soldier and loyal follower of Sarenrae judged the boy harshly for what he had no control over. He put him out with nothing and threatened to kill him if he came around again. He also threatened and turned his mother against him. Death is too good for this man. He must be made to suffer.

5. Describe your character in detail as you see fit. Relate any additional information you believe is important or required. Include personality and mannerisms.

Tall, well built. Sharp and handsome features. The fiendish change was sudden and as if a spell changed him. He awoke one day with reg skin, a massive set of horns with a great toothy maul. His feat cloven. It was almost as if he were a direct decendant to Asmodeus himself. He is reserved and likes to get to know others before judging.

2. What is your character's role in a group?

Front line, damage dealer, Tracker. Probably will do beast master and have a Cat and a bird so down the line will be able to scout for the group as well.

3. How is your character not as they seems?

I want one or two skills that would surprise others if they found out he knows them. Also include personality traits, positive or negative, that would similarly surprise others.

Profession Soldier: He was raised to be a good soldier, probably even worshiped Sarenrae until everyone turned on him. He was made the way he is.

Down the line his ability to see through the eyes of his beast will prove usefull and out of the oridnary.

He is loving and caring of those he calls friends or family. Hate has filled his heart for those that turned on him and shunned him. He just wants to be excepted for what he is. He had no choice on being born the way he is.

4. What are your character's goals, conscious and, perhaps, subconscious?

Make those pay that betrayed him. To show them what their closed minded view did. See and witness the horror they created through Hate.

5. How easily does your character love?

Have they been in love? He had love of his family, but no longer. He has never loved another. He is open to love if trust can be forged.

6. Is your character racist at all, either now or in their past?

No, though he is trained to hunt track and fight humans.

7. All people believe something that is not true, both about the world around them and about themselves. What lies/untruths does your character believe about themselves and the world around them?

That things are fair. That his actions are just b/c they came out of the hate fostered in his heart. They were not things he would have chose to do if he were not betrayed. That he is still a good man no matter what actions he takes to statisfy his revenge.

8. How is your character about material possessions?

As a soldier he feels there is a right tool for the job and who ever can best use the tool should be the one using it. He also feels everyone that pulls their weight deserves and equal share.

9. What does your character perceive their major problems to be?

He has trust issues, and a lust for revenge that may get him killed.

10. What does he perceive the solutions to those problems to be?

Forge bonds of trust and friendship, create a new familly of friends. To learn that his path of revenge is a shadow of what could be done to the people that betrayed him. To become part of the bigger picture.

11. What are your character's religious beliefs?

open. He once worshiped Sarenrae before all he knew and loved fell apart.

12. What does your character fear?

Not being accepted. Never finding love of friends or family. Not doing his part.

13. How much of a temper does your character have? What sorts of things set them off?

Short now. Used to not be so. The looks he gets for what he is, the wispers. Anyone that reads a book by the cover and is quick to judge.

Being the daughter of a famous wizard was a blessing: first and foremost, she didn't get killed on the spot as a “spawn of the devil” as soon as she was born. Raphael, a renowned scholar, explained to everyone (included a seemingly distressed Lady Farisa) that Etna was an Ifriit, a much different creature than a devil: the wizard's power, probably, influenced the girl's birth in some ways.
But Etna didn't love her dad only because he saved her life; while Raphael, one of the kindest man to ever walk this earth, loved both of his children, he and Etna shared a particular bond: magic.
Etna was born with prodigious sorceror powers, and his father was overjoyed when he learned of that: under his guidance, she casted her first cantrip (a spark spell which managed to set a precious tapestry on fire) at the age of 7, and her first proper spell at 10 ( a color spray which knocked off Winston, Etna's dog, for a couple of minutes). As such, she spent most of her time with her father, learning magic and hearing his stories of his adventuring days: in particular, Etna was fascinated by those of other Planes and the creatures that inhabited them, with which she understood she had a connection. All of this much annoyed Lady Farisa, who wanted Etna to take interest in more mundane events and participate in what was supposed to be the normal life of a noble in Talingarde: she got what she wanted in her second daughter, Elizabeth, born when Etna was two.

Good things don't last tough, as Etna learned, and Raphael got suddenly ill when Etna just turned nineteen years old. He died shortly after, and what Etna saw on his deathbed changed her life forever.
She left the room where his father where shortly after he passed away, but returned a few minutes later to give him the last farewell. All of her relatives where around him, overwhelmed with grief.
The children where crying their eyes out because “Grandpa Raph” was no longer there.
Cousin Heremin, a middle-aged knight who she always saw wearing a kind but stern expression, was sobbing quietly. Etna argued with him more than once, but she respected him as one of the most dedicated men she knew. Even later in her life, when she will go down to dark path, he will still be respected by Etna.
And there were also many people where trying to console Lady Farisa.

And then there was Lady Farisa herself.
Her sobs where way louder than the rests and copious tears were running on her cheeks , her face half-hidden on her palms.
But as Etna looked at her, something clicked in her head. Lady Farisa had no desire to cry. Everyone wanted to just let out their suffering, but she was crying the most perfect cry a widow had ever cried.
In her ears, Lady Farisa's sobs were getting every second more similar to a cavernous laugh, and Etna stormed off the door.
She tricked them. She tricked them all. Everyone was there comforting her, when they were the ones that needed comfort. She's probably laughing under all of those tears.
As she was making for her father study, her vision blurred when tears started watering her eyes. Her hair, usually a bright orange, took the grey color of an ember.
They are all too good-hearted to see the true colors of Lady Farisa. They are so good-hearted that no one would ever doubt her. Being so good-hearted made them weak and vulnerable to the machinations of that... that...
Etna swore as she entered in his father study, flinging herself on a pile of scrolls, as one would do on a bed.
She's been holding all of them on a leash. And father, father too! He probably understood what kind of person Lady Farisa was, he was too intelligent not too, but stayed with her! Why, why, for what reason? “Love”?
She thumped her fist on the ground in anger, pulled up an handful of paper and reduced it in cinders in a couple of seconds.
If it was “love” who killed him, then that is the most dangerous thing in existence! You can't have pity of anyone, you can't trust anyone, you can't love anyone or people like that whore will exploit you and make you do their bidding!

She cried for hours, and her hair grew slowly back to their normal color, and then steadily became brighter than ever before.
She had decided. She would have her revenge, she would make Lady Farisa (she refused the idea that that disgusting creature was her mother) pay. She would humiliate her, strip her of all of her ill-gained riches and make everyone leave her begging on the streets like the vermin she was.
First things first, Etna needed to get on her mother's good side. To achieve that she just had to act like her mother always wanted her to , to conduct the life of a normal noble and participate in those mundane events Lady Farisa such loved: her mother would think she finally managed to make Etna her willing puppet (as she did with her sister Elizabeth), but there she would build a web of connections, of people that trusted her more than they trusted her mother.
But she didn't want to achieve that by the means her mother used, always acting her part, making everyone her unwilling pawns; or those of Elizabeth, whose demeanor was to be called “promiscuous” at best.
She would give people what they most desired: a friend, someone to trust, a weakness that Etna had understood was not to be taken lightly. From the day her father died, it was as she could feel people desires. Making friends was just that: listening to people, giving small advices and encouragement, kindling those desires, letting people follow them like a moth to a flame...
In no time, she was well known and loved among the upper classes of Talingarde and it seemed that her mother had started to take a liking to her.

In the meantime, Etna started preparing for the second part of her plan: to take back all the money that Lady Farisa inherited from her father, and completely destroy her reputation.
To do so, Etna started studying and later work as a Lawyer and a bank clerk:in Talingarde the criminality rate had diminished so much that most of the lawyers where employed in other administrative duties.
She never was an unintelligent person, on the contrary she was rather sharp, but she really found in the study of the law system her vocation: she could see before her eyes a myriad of loopholes, conveniently vague laws and ways to exploit the system.
It was as if Talingarde law was written on the wrong assumption that everyone would have played nice by following some unwritten rules...
But she knew better that some people would never do that, and all the good-hearted and pure ones would get exploited by the more ruthless.
It's their fault for trusting others anyway. It's their loss if they can't see that someone else is pulling their strings...

While the major part of his father inheritance had gone to her mother, Etna had received a little of it only for herself: it was more than enough for her to start investing in most of Talingarde businesses, and strike contracts that while seeming fair, where in reality completely in her favor. It helped a lot that Etna was able both to soften up people with her magic without them noticing, and that most of Talinarde merchant were either too gullible or too sure of themselves to even consider the idea that they were being scammed.
She then managed to acquire enough trust from Lady Farisa that she let Etna administer the finances of the family, and as such Etna was able to guide her mother do to a number of poor investments and financial decisions: of course, every one of them looked quite convenient at a first glance, they where all in businesses Etna had invested on (so she could later regain those same monies), she made sure that few people beside Lady Farisa and her knew she was administering the finances of the family, and she didn't sign even a single piece of paper, but let her mother do all of that so that there couldn't be proof of her involvement.

With time, Etna drained Lady Farisa's inheritance and reacquired it for herself, while also making her mother invest in societies that did not-so-licit side businesses (without her mother knowing, of course). That would have done nicely to damage her reputation, or get her arrested, even.
After 4 years she was close to success: in a few days her mother had to pay a large sum of interests that would have completely wiped out her riches, and she was walking to her mother study with a grin on her face and a contract in her hand. By signing it, Lady Farisa would have, unknowingly, bought “merchandise” from an enterprise that was a proxy for a slave trading business. She strolled triumphantly in her mother study, convinced that she was about to obtain her revenge, but her eyes filled with fear as soon as she entered the door.
Lady Farisa was chuckling behind her desk while two guards took Etna by the arms and said ”Etna Agnes, you're arrested for fraud and illicit trading”

The trial lasted for a long while: apparently a great number of people where employed to figure out all of Etna's exploits. The investigation have been going on for some months, it seems, and since then it took them some time to track all the unfair contracts, investment and trading that she did.
The witnesses where a lot too, but it wasn't surprising as she practically had deals with all of Talingarde merchants.
She didn't try to defend herself from any of the accuses that they moved at her: it would have been useless anyway. She didn't break any law, but all of the court was convinced that what she did was wrong, and so try to point that out would have been a moot point.
She was strangely calm about all of this: they would have surely condemned her to death (they said that her exploits brought more than a person to bankrupt, not that she cared...), but she knew that it was her fault for not have been careful enough. She could see trough Lady Farisa's eyes that she knew she was tricking her for a long time, but that she let Etna do it just for making her defeat more amusing. She was just playing with Etna like a cat does with a mouse...

Sure enough, she was sent to Brandescar to be later transported to a (short) life of hard labor at the salt mines. She didn't struggle, and had accepted her own failure, but she couldn't help to wish for a second chance to bring down Lady Farisa and Talingarde, that city that condemned her, someone who didn't break any law, only because she was “evil”.

1. How does your character interact with the others within a group?
Etna only heard of Asmodeus in the whispers of priests and on old records she cataloged, but as soon as she learns of his existence, she will almost immediately start worshiping him, seeing that his mindset is much alike her own. If these teachings come from a member of the party, she will hold a particular respect for that person.
While she will regard much of the melee classes as "brutes" (that could become, with time, "useful and reliable brutes"), she shows respect for both casters (particularly wizards) and elderly people in general.
She will keep in-character tensions to a minimum, as she understands that working together will be paramount to achieve her goals, and also because the only thing that will really make her lose her temper will be people badmouthing her dead father.
Also, she has a dislike for women that use their "features" to charm their way trough, as they remember Etna of her sister Elizabeth.

2. What is your character's role in a group?
Debuffer and battlefield controller! I'll try to be (one of) the party faces, maybe teaming with someone else to do the good cop/bad cop thing. I'll try to talk to enemies during battles: even if they can't be convinced that Asmodeus is the One True Way(TM), I can still use badly spelled phrases to trigger Wishbound Arcana.

3. How is your character not as they seems? I want one or two skills that would surprise others if they found out he knows them. Also include personality traits, positive or negative, that would similarly surprise others.
As I already said, Etna has a knack for laws and contracts: she will keep Knowledge(Law) and Linguistic always maxed (basing myself on a trait, the latter is used to hide your true intentions in a written text: that's what I'll do!). She's also way smarter than someone would think at a first glance (rocking that 14 INT!)
Her unusual Wishcrafter powers are bound to surprise some people, I'll add.

4. What are your character's goals, conscious and, perhaps, subconscious?
Already answered in Background and a previous spoiler.

5. How easily does your character love? Have they been in love?
It's a big part of the character that Etna swore to never love someone. In her head, it was love that made his father and her family weak to Lady Farisa's machinations.

6. Is your character racist at all, either now or in their past?
Not at all. Cunning is all that's important: you can be a Dwarf, a Elf, an Eldritch horror, a man, a woman, a child, an adult, rich, poor: as long as you can come on top with your brain, you have Etna's respect.

7. All people believe something that is not true, both about the world around them and about themselves. What lies/untruths does your character believe about themselves and the world around them?
Eeeeh, it'll take ages to write them all. Most important:
1)Lady Farisa did not kill her father.
2)Love doesn't make you weak.
3)The weak doesn't have to be crushed by the strong etc.
Having a distorted view of the world is what usually makes an Evil character! I could go on for ages!

8. How is your character about material possessions?
They are tools, and nothing more. You can go around, wearing expensive clothes to show that you're superior, but they won't make you that if you aren't in the first place.

9. What does your character perceive their major problems to be?
Etna knows that her Hubris was her downfall: underestimating Lady Farisa was a huge mistake. Being exaggeratedly sure of yourself makes so that you can't see your own weaknesses, and that is something that she learned the hard way.

10. What does he perceive the solutions to those problems to be?
Becoming more powerful and don't ignore anything or anyone because it doesn't seem a threat at a first glance: better safe than sorry.

11. What are your character's religious beliefs?
She didn't care for religion up to this point, but as soon as someone talks about the teachings of Asmodeus to her, she will convert in a heartbeat.

12. What does your character fear?
Failure. That's concise, but true. :P

13. How much of a temper does your character have? What sorts of things set them off?
Etna will get annoyed at people hitting on her, or just at dumb people in general: still, she will keep her composure. Her only 'Berserk Button' is her father: if someone start badmouthing him, they best start running really, really fast.

1. Write five things essential to your character’s background including previous adventures and events.

A) the murder of his parents during a home invasion. This sets him on his path of vengeance.

B) his travels throughout the world, learning martial arts in Tien Xia, Investigative techniques from pathfinders in Absalom, The art of disguise and theatrics in the nation of Cheliax, and stealth in the jungles of The Mwangi Expanse.

C) His return to seek vengeance on the killers of his parents, only to find they had already been granted justice. This is the tipping point that leads him down a dark path.

D) his early attempts at government reform, which fail dramatically, showing him that he can't work within the system to enact change.

E) His campaign of vigilante justice as "The Hunter" in the capitol of Talingarde.

F) His arrest for sedition and imprisonment.

2. List your character’s goals and things you want to see happen to your character.

My character is obsessed with seeing the topple of the regime of "corrupted nobles" and the move to a more egalitarian form of government.

Things I would like to see happen to him include having situations pop up that reinforce or make him question his beliefs (i.e. corrupt nobles, "innocent" nobles, children villains, and that sort of thing).

3. List two secrets about your character. Keep in mind secrets your character may not know yet.

A) the "botched robbery" that resulted in his parent's murder was actually an assassination.

B) He has a secret identity that no one knows about (he knew that he was going to be arrested, and hid everything that he used for being a vigilante).

4. List three people that are tied to the character through blood, romance or honor. Remember to include positive and negative reflections.

A) His sensei Kurgane. Kurgane wanted him to turn from the path of violence, but Davain knew that he could not. Davian has the deepest respect for Kurgane, but he knows that he can't follow his path.

B)Lord Commander Reginald Smythe. The lord commander sums up everything that Davian despises about the nobility: old world money that believes that the world exists to serve him. Reginald is corrupt as hell, and enjoys beating and forcing himself on his servants.

C) While he doesn't know it, Davian has a brother who is a bastard.

5. Describe your character in detail as you see fit. Relate any additional information you believe is important or required. Include personality and mannerisms.

Davian is in actually two completely different people:

Davian Sol is outgoing, likeable, and talkative. He's good at connecting people with each other, but kind of unintelligent.

The Hunter is brooding, patient, intelligent, and methodical.

Physically, Davian is 5'10", 130 lbs of solid muscle (he has less than 2% body fat). He is "forgettably attractive" (i.e. he is good looking, but most people don't remember much about his appearance other than that), with short cut yet stylish black hair and brown eyes. He tends to wear colorful clothing that is cut in such a way that it allows freedom of movement. He avoids the color black whenever possible, so as to limit people's association between him and the hunter.

Physically, The Hunter is 6', 150 lbs male who wears head-to-toe black, from his hooded cloak to the light boots he wears (which have soles that leave tracks that show a heavyset barefoot female.

Davian's story truly begins at the age of 9, on a fateful night in which his parents, both merchants who ran the Sol mercantile empire, (easily the largest coster and caravan company in all of Talingarde) decided to skip the theater and have a family night at home instead. The next thing that young Davain heard was the sound of breaking glass, screams, and loud, harsh voices coming from downstairs. Hiding as his father always instructed him to, he did not actually hear the murder of his parents, but he certainly saw the aftereffects as he crept downstairs to find both his parents tied to a chair with their throats slit. upon seeing that image, a part of him broke inside. He summoned the watch, and the investigation began almost immediately. He told the watch captain that he was going to stay with family in Taldor, but he had already made a decision that he would do whatever it took to see that the criminals who killed his family, and those like them, would never harm another family if he could help it. Thus began his tour of Golarion, trading money and favors to get access to some of the greatest actors, warriors, investigators, and scouts of the age: He spent several years at a remote monastery in The Tien Xia side of the world's end mountains, honing his unarmed combat abilities, there was the year spent helping the city watch catch mastermind criminals, or the next 2 years studying with Karamina, one of the greatest disguise artists and female impersonators of the Chelish opera. He did a brief excursion in the Mwangi expanse, where he learned how to think like a predator and move in such a way as to avoid notice by them.

All of this training culminated in the day that he returned home, eager to begin his search for the fiends who murdered his family. Receiving only the second true shock in his life, he discovered that the murderers had been tried, convicted, and executed for the murder of his parents. Justice had prevailed; yet there would be no catharsis for Davain. Over the next couple of years, he ran his coster, which showed record profits never even seen in the days when his parents ran it, while at night he would look at the evidence of the crime that he broke in and stole from the city watch. It was here that he discovered a pattern: the investigating watch officers were in the pocket of one of the local crime syndicates. The further he investigated, the more evidence he saw that pointed to everyone in the watch being corrupt. He tried to speak out against the watch in the various city forums (as well as with the appointed city officials), but he was continually disbelieved or not taken seriously.

Deciding that the system was not working because the entire system was corrupt, Davian decided that he would need to become justice for the city; with that goal in mind, he took out the plans for the outfit that he had designed during his travel, made several alterations, debuted himself as "The Hunter". He began patrolling via the rooftops at night, inflicting brutal punishment on criminals he found but always leaving them alive (usually with multiple broken bones). Flash forward nearly a decade, where the criminals had pretty much fled Talingarde for greener pastures, and The Hunter was still on the hunt, by now a well-oiled ambush machine. By this point, Davian had convinced himself that everyone in power in the nation, from the king on down, were corrupt and actively oppressing the few innocents who suffered silently under their reign (for fear of retaliations, or so he believed). His beliefs were, of course, propped up by the manhunt that existed for his hunter persona.

As Davian Sol, he continued to speak out against the king and government, which turned out to be the break that certain individuals within the government, led by Lord Commander Reginald Smythe (a man that was a war profiteer and incredibly greedy), who called on the government to have Davian arrested for sedition and his coster seized. He managed to bribe or persuade enough people to have charges brought against Davian, and for Davian, this was a catalyzing event. Knowing that he was going to be arrested, Davian hid all of his equipment that he used as the hunter in an underground cave, along with what money he could immediately get his hands on. He did not resist the charges, and was sentenced to hang.

And that is where his next chapter begins.

They have four children of which three hold leadership position within the clan. The oldest son Omak is a war hero and captain in the clan. The second child and only daughter, Halii, like her mother is a respected member of the Asmodeus clergy positioned just below her mother. The third child and second son, Jeam, is also a military veteran. Jeam is now Captain and controller of the pit bosses of the slaves. Lastly there is Jalik, he was born 17 years ago the last of his family. He was sickly born as hobgoblins are concerned and thought by his parents to die in training which starts at three months of age.
Jalik like all hobgoblin children was cast out of the household into the hands of the clergy at three months for education and establishment into the hobgoblin society or Daweri clan. Jalik learned faster than his peers. It also helped that occasionally his mother would sneak into the sleeping area and shower him with love and affection. It was an unusual aspect for any hobgoblin to show affection but he knew that he and his mother were somehow different.

Jalik by the time he was 10 years old he was tall, fast, and lanky. This made him much clumsier than the others but through brutal military training over the next three years he learned to control his body. Although he would get mauled in hand to hand combat training he would never gave up. It is here he learned that intellect and cunning would change the way he fought and dealt with others. Continually he would be beaten physically but somehow outwit his opponent through tactics and strategy. This unusual ability brought him respect among his peers.

At the age of 14 his training was complete and he would be assigned a position within the society based upon his testing. Jalik knew that he was different with his light grey tone and tall slender build but thought that he would most assuredly be assigned a position within the military guard like his brothers. He did earn of a position but it was not an honorable position within the military. Jalik was assigned to the scouts, the lowliest of the military order. This deeply disappointed his father who disowned him.

Now cast from his father’s eye he still kept contact with his mother but it became harder and harder as time passed. Marek would have his elite guard block his entrance and turn him away constantly. Jalik didn’t entirely give up as it was not in his nature but it is here that he honed his stealthier skills and mastered several other languages.
On one mission he was assigned to infiltrate a small village and gather information for an upcoming raid to capture slaves and eliminate the settlement’s military. Jalik made it into town and was mistaken for a half orc. Luckily his training paid off as he fluently spoke orc and persuaded the villagers that he was a member of a known mercenary band in the area. This event spawned many more like it. He began to spend more time with other races and sneak into villages throughout the area to learn more of the cultures and in particular their ladies. Women were a weakness for him at first as he did not know how to approach them with confidence but trial and error over the next few years made him a master.

He would use this newly acquired mastery to obtain information and materials that he would trade without clan approval. He would bring others into his planned outings and through this became more popular until word got to his father. Rather than risk being tortured by his own father for failure to comply with clan law Jalik left.

Over the next few years Jalik would move from one town to another posing as a freelance half orc soldier named Jalik Daweri after his father’s clan. His cunning, bravery, and ability to infiltrate areas and likeability would get him jobs and access to some higher levels of authority. He has even tried his hand in the intrigue of political manipulation for high paying merchants and even the House of Havelyn.

A year or so ago he was hired to acquire knowledge held within the House of Havelyn. His target was a beautiful maiden with the house for which he spent months getting extremely familiar. His contractor was quite pleased with the results as he conned the young lady into stealing the material from her family and giving it to him. Days later he would get paid and never saw the girl again.

This one job provided more connections that would eventually lead to his arrest. Days ago in the height of a job he began to coerce local leadership that the House Darius was unfit to rule the land. He was so convincing that the town took up arms against the King in revolt.
Jalik was unaware of the town’s actions/attack on House Darius. Jalik was spending the evening as usual in a village tavern drinking with a few ladies. His long time friend Miles Kilmeade was tending bar when suddenly The Darius Guard tore into the tavern. Miles knew it had to be related to his dark friend Jalik and screamed for Jalik to hide. It was too late. It was there Jalik was seized by the guard and charged with Sedition.

1. How does your character interact with the others within a group?
Always personable. One does not gain new clients if the old clients hate you. She will listen carefully to make sure she understands the issue at hand, but will not hesitate to speak up and make sure that all understand the parameters of the issue and what the potential ramifications and outcomes are dependent upon the option chosen. (In other words, she has years as a barrister/attorney and speaks and acts as one, albeit not the smartest one).

2. What is your character's role in a group?
She is a face character. She will be a healer, but also quite capable at defending herself and assisting the front line fighters when necessary, whether it be in melee or with her magic.

3. How is your character not as they seems? I want one or two skills that would surprise others if they found out he knows them. Also include personality traits, positive or negative, that would similarly surprise others.
She is trained as a barrister. She knows the laws of the land and can usually predict how most of the normal government officials will react when something happens - emergency protocols, legal process, command structure, etc. Unfortunately, she tends to be cocky and overconfident in her abilities, which lead to her eventual downfall and descent into darkness (which is another trait about her that few would expect.) One problem is that she has never been the sharpest. Thus, while she usually makes wise decisions, she frequently does not come up with the most creative solutions to problems.

Also, while she is a creature of the courtroom, growing up, she spent much time outdoors watching animals, learning to follow and watch them. Even hunting when she felt so inclined.

4. What are your character's goals, conscious and, perhaps, subconscious?
She feels that she was entrapped. She knows she did what she is accused of, but does not believe it is her fault. For that reason, revenge has crept into her usually logical mind (likely caused by unnatural, and possibly otherworldly, causes). At this time, she is not a purely evil character, but has become so embittered that she blames all in the system for her current predicament, and, thus, has become blinded by her anger such that she now blames the guards, and most anyone else tied to the government of Talingarde as being responsible for her issues. Eventually, her actions will cause a full shift from a more neutral position to an evil Asmodean mindset.

She always envisioned herself becoming the greatest barrister in the history of the land. Something her limited intellect would likely never allow. She never considered joining the bench, but this is something that she would happily aspire to with the power and prestige that comes with such an assignment.

5. How easily does your character love? Have they been in love?
Tkaara is a very attractive woman. She knows that a pretty smile at the right time can easily be the difference between a year in prison and a slap on the wrist. However, she has never had time for love, despite more than a few pleas from various suitors, she has spent her time working cases and representing clients, which has resulted in more than a few missed "dates". She is not nobility, but grew up the daughter of a middle class shop keeper. Although she is capable of love, it is not something that she has ever truly thought about. If the right person arrived, love would be a possibility, but up to this point, it has been more of a tool for her professional advancement.

6. Is your character racist at all, either now or in their past?
Tkaara is not the biggest fan of other races. Talingarde is primarily human with the other races making up a very small part of the population. However, as a barrister, she has represented many accused of other races. Usually these accused were falsely blamed for crimes because of the color of their skin, pointyness of their ears, or vestigial tail. Thus, she has learned to work with and accept those of other races. If it were her choice, she would likely not choose one of another race as her best friend, but she knows that the other races are just that, other races, and not something to be feared or hated for no reason.

7. All people believe something that is not true, both about the world around them and about themselves. What lies/untruths does your character believe about themselves and the world around them?
She usually believes she is right, even when she is wrong. She believes that it was a grievous mistake in the system that caused her to be caught. She believes that the legal system is a fair balance, albeit a slightly skewed one, that brings about justice. She does not realize the way that other barristers and judges can be manipulated - other than by the pretty smiles she uses - through bribes and threats.

8. How is your character about material possessions?
She likes material possessions. As a barrister, she made a fair living and enjoyed jewelry and fine clothing. She has always been a material girl who would rather go without dinner for a few days to afford the newest styles out of Oppara, than go without the clothes.

9. What does your character perceive their major problems to be?
Her major problem is an almost paranoid belief that someone is against her. She has not figured out why someone sought to entrap her, or who, but obviously she should not be blamed for the problems that got her caught. I mean, Embezzlement, that is not something she would do. So, the money was found in her possession, and she has vague memories of receiving it, but there must have been a mistake. And, darn-nit, she is going to figure out who is responsible and make them pay.

10. What does he perceive the solutions to those problems to be?
She has to get free to prove she is innocent. That it was all just a big mistake. She will figure out a way to prove she did not take the money to cover up the Baron's daughter's infidelity. Yeh, it was in her possession and she had a new set of clothes in her closet, but she could not have done it. Could she?

11. What are your character's religious beliefs?
She was raised worshipping Iomedae, as were most others. During her legal studies, she strayed away from devout worship and began to focus more on the law and contracts. Sure, there were divine beings out there, but with a good contract and laws to enforce it, who needs gods. At this point, she has not been to any temple in several years. She knows of Asmodeus and that he is the Lord of Contracts, but has never attempted to learn much of him. Why should she? The rulers of Talingarde claim Asmodeus should not be worshipped, and why should she doubt such great rulers. . . . Hmmm, she thinks, if they are so great, why did they allow me to be entrapped?

12. What does your character fear?
She fears the unknown. She likes things to be orderly and organized. Every night she would tidy up her desk. Actually, now that she is thinking about it, for the past year she seems to have become quite sloppy at this.

In her home, every mug and dish has a place. The flowers in her yard are always weeded and planted in perfect rows. Her clothes are carefully organized by color and style - oldest in the rear as one cannot be seen in last years styles, unless it comes back into style.

13. How much of a temper does your character have? What sorts of things set them off?
She has historically had a fairly cool temper. She will act offended and annoyed when necessary or when presenting an argument, but rarely loses her cool. Over the past year, ever since that strange client retained her, what was his name, she cannot for the life of her recall it, she has gotten to be more of a hothead. She still keeps her cool well, but on more than one occasion in certain cases, she has lost her temper causing the judge to reprimand her, and on two occasions causing her client to lose the case.

What always annoys her are those who do not believe in doing things logically. The world is organized, and all people should realize this and seek to stay equally organized. If there is a plan, others should follow it, not question it.