Agatha Threepwood's page

Combat Gear: Large hatpin (dagger), several small hatpins (darts), Bracelets of Natural Armour +2, Wand of Magic Missile,
Other gear: Necklace (arcane focus – family heirloom), textbooks, needlework apparatus, 2 x potion of CMW, 2 x potions of CLW, Bag of holding type 1, Scrolls of Expeditious Retreat, Floating Disc, Comprehend Languages, Endure Elements, Protection from Arrows, Locate Object, 2,050 GP

Intimidate +11 (5 ranks, +3 class, +3 CHA), Knowledge (Arcana) +11 (+5 rank, +3 class, +3 INT), Knowledge (History) +11 (+5 ranks, +3 class, +3 INT), Profession (schoolmistress) +11 (+5 ranks, +3 class, +3 INT), Spellcraft +11 (+5 ranks, +3 class, +3 INT) Sense Motive +13 (+5 ranks, +3 class, +2 WIS, +2 feat, +1 trait)

Focussed mind (+2 to concentration checks, Suspicious (+1 to Sense Motive, Sense Motive always class skill)

Spells known: 0 – 7 (Detect magic, Detect Poison, Flare, Mage hand, Mending, Ray of Frost, Read magic)
1 – 4 (Summon Monster 1, Magic Missile, Mage Armour, Charm Person)
2 - 2 (Detect Thoughts, Summon Monster II)
Spells per day: 1 – 7
2 - 5

Born of a thoroughly respectable family in Magnimar, Agatha was brought up in a family where the arcane arts were a forbidden topic, but somehow, family members kept disappearing suddenly, their names mentioned in hushed whispers at the breakfast table one morning, then Never Spoken Again. Her father was a prosperous merchant, her mother a member of a minor aristocratic house, so she had a very comfortable childhood, despite being sent away to a girls’ boarding school at a very young age, where she distinguished herself to such an extent that she was offered a position as a member of staff once she’d completed her education and seen a little of the world. She accepted, ending up as Headmistress, and years of dealing with wayward young women, eccentric colleagues and dim-witted parents have helped to make what was a formidable personality to begin with even more of a force to be reckoned with.
She was extremely happy where she was, so it came as a huge and thoroughly unwelcome shock to her when, at the age of 50 or so, things started happening which were entirely strange to her. Being able to move objects simply by staring at them, summon flame with a mere thought and knock a drunk and rowdy gardener head over heels just by waving her hand was convenient, but what would people think? She began to understand what had happened to Uncle Fred, Cousin Gertrude and all the others, and was horrified. Acting with customary forthrightness, she resigned her post, announced that she was taking a holiday (for the first time in thirty years) and prepared to retire to the country until she’d made sense of her situation.

She was bored to tears within a couple of weeks of arriving at her cottage, so it came as a welcome relief when a letter arrived, informing her about the scandalous conduct of her nephew Clarence, who had got himself entangled with a most undesirable young woman in Korvosa, was up to his ears in debt to some extremely unsavoury characters and was drinking and carrying on in a way that simply had to be stopped right there and then.

She was on the carriage into town before the next sunrise.

Agatha is a slim woman in her 50s, with a prominent nose, steely grey eyes and hair of the same colour pulled back in a tight bun at the back of her head and held in place with a number of vicious looking pins. She wears high-necked blouses and long skirts of a rather old-fashioned cut, never goes out without a hat on and always has a large onyx stone set in a silver necklace hung around her neck. The item in question is a family heirloom, handed down to the eldest Threepwood daughter for generations, and she is remarkably attached to it.