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About Elisa Kaine

Elisa was just another abandoned child at the overcrowded orphanage she grew up in, quiet and polite she preferred books and studying to the noisy children's games the other orphans enjoyed.

Naturally this drew the attention of some of the more unpleasant children, and Elisa was soon a favorite target for bullying. She endured this behavior for a while, but seeing it wouldn't cease she took steps.

Her chief tormentors sudden and painful death drew attention, at least until it was found he had mistakenly eaten some of the rat poison that had been laid down only a week before.

The Rat catcher was chastised for being careless, but unsupervised children will always find what they shouldn't, and besides it was only a paupers orphan was the official view.

The Rat catcher himself barely remembered the quiet, polite girl who had been so interested in his work, and asked so many intelligent questions about his concoctions as he laid them for the rats.

Over the years, as Elisa grew to adulthood she found that being quiet and patient paid off. People who crossed Elisa suffered all manner of unpleasant and often fatal accidents.

She grew into an attractive, well mannered young lady, continuing her studies in Alchemy, and even helping in the orphanage as the cooks assistant at times.

When it was time to leave the orphanage Elisa was apprenticed to the towns Alchemist, an older man, who as a widower soon noticed the looks of his young assistant.

Elisa seemed agreeable and they entered a relationship that would have been scandalous if it had ever been discovered. Sadly for the Alchemist he died shortly after the relationship began, soon after he had ignored Elisa's hints that he should change his will to leave the shop in her name.

This flash of temper was her downfall, the Alchemist had adult children, who didn't want the shop or their fathers business, and decided to sell it. Leaving Elisa homeless and unemployed.

The Alchemists son died shortly after, victim of a street robbery gone wrong as he stumbled home from his favorite tavern. His second son however was made of sterner stuff, and woke up to find Elisa standing over him, poisoned dagger at the ready. Fighting her off he survived to name her to the watch.

Elisa tried to escape the city, but was captured by the guards and sentenced to death, Sent to prison she stayed quiet, plotting and looking for any chance to escape, either on the way, or once there.

When that chance came on the journey, she took it, she followed the others, using her stealth and survival skills to elude the Mitras and reach the mansion. She hates her brand and has been investigating ways of removing it, either alchemical or magic.

Elisa is a quiet, attractive young woman, unless trying to make an impression she tries to fade into the background.

She has little or no scruple about using anything she can to get what she wants. She always remains calm and polite, even to someone she's in the midst of murdering.

While not reacting openly to insults and abuse Elisa does keep a list of people she believes require a measure of payback, generally fatal.
She learned far too young that killing people removes problems, and can't see that it can cause more.