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1. Skill Focus (Knowledge Nobility) +3
2. Combat Expertise
3. Deceitful: +2 to Bluff and Disguise
*. Toughness

Social Talent:
1. Social Grace (Knowledge Nobility) +4
2. Gossip Collector

Vigilante Talent:
1. Cunning Feint - Perform Feint as a move action or in place of an attack in a full attack action.

1. Favored Daughter-
Benefit You gain a +1 trait bonus on Knowledge (local) checks, and Knowledge (local) is always a class skill for you. In addition, you can choose any one law-abiding citizen from below as an ally; depending on the person you pick, you’ll get different benefits.
Local noble and Innkeeper
Benefit You gain an additional 10% over the amount of gp you normally would get from selling off treasure.
2. Improvised Defense: +1 shield bonus while wielding improvised weapon. Lose this bonus for one round if you make an attack with the weapon.
Drawback:
Pride-
You can’t abide challenges to your dignity, authority, or honor.
Effect: When someone threatens, accuses, or challenges you, you take a –2 penalty on Diplomacy checks and Sense Motive checks involving that creature until the creature apologizes to you.

Acrobatics (Dex), 2 + 3 + 3 - 2 = 6
Bluff (Cha), 3 + 3 + 2 + 2 (Deceitful) = 10
Climbe (Str) 3 + 3 + 4 = 10
Diplomacy (Cha), 3 + 3 + 2 = 6
Disable Device(Dex), 2 + 2 + 3 = 6
Disguise (Cha), 1 + 3 + 2 +2 (Deceitful) (+20 Seamless Guise when Applicable) = 8 (28)
Escape Artist (Dex) 3 + 3 + 3 = 9
Perception (Wis), Ranks 3 + 3 (trained) = 6
Profession: Ranks 1 + 3 (trained) = 4
Knowledge (Dungeoneering) 1+ 2 (int) + 3 (trained) = 6
Knowledge (Engineering) 1 +2 +3 = 6
Knowledge (local): 2+ 4 (int) + 3 (trained) + 1 (trait) = 10
Stealth (Dex), 3 + 2 + 3 - 2 = 6
Perform (Cha) Ballroom Dancing: 3 + 3 + 2 = 8
Sleight of Hand (dex) 2 + 3 +3 = 8
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Background Skill:
Knowledge (nobility): Ranks 3 + 4 (Int) + 3 (trained) + 3 (Skill Focus) + 4 (Social Grace) = 17

Masterwork Sword Cane 345gp
Armored Kilt 20gp
+1 Lamellar armor 1210gp
Mask 5gp
Wig 5 gp
Tear away Courtesan outfit 13gp
Skeleton Key 85 gp
Masterwork Manacles 50 gp
Disguise Kit 50 gp
Concealable Thieves tools 190g
Remaining Gold: 1027
Armor:
+5 AC (+1 Enhancement)(Max Dex +3) (-2 Armor Check penalty)
+1 Improvised Defense (Sheath)

Fifika:
Fifika stands roughly at 5’ 6” in height and has the dark tan skin that is common among the Varisan people with straight, raven black, jaw-length hair that sits in a pixie cut that sweeps from right to left. Her bangs slightly conceal her right eye while her hair has a butterfly pin on the left side that ensures her left remains revealed. Wearing an indigo courtesan’s outfit and violet lipstick the woman’s attire is designed not to accentuate her figure but rather to conceal what she wears underneath. Long sleeves and a flowing dress ensure that she is dressed fashionably for the noble courts but not so much so that she would stand out in a crowd of other similarly dressed officials. When not anticipating the need to switch into her alter ego she will often wear stiletto heels and adorn rings upon her fingers that, despite being worth little to nothing, appear quite fashionable. She carries a modest looking if not well crafted cane with silver trim that much like her is more than it seems.

Fifika plays the role of the prim and proper member of the noble court. She is well versed in the dos and don’ts of the noble circle and has somehow managed to all but master the ever changing trends and fashions of that seem to shift at a whim. She is reserved and is always careful to never speak out of turn. She always enters and exits with a perfect curtsey and is never one to gossip. While she is well respected amongst her peers many of the common folk see her as a snob desperately trying to extend her reach to a higher station than her own. She dismisses these claims and simply wants to live her life as a boring, unremarkable citizen who provides exceptional services to the elite.

Elegant Edge:
A breastplate of leather lamellar is worn over an attire composed almost entirely of fine gold colored silks. Said breastplate is affixed by straps over either shoulder, leaving them along with the rest of the arm barren and revealed. Edge’s upper arms are adorned with gold bands while gold bandannas are tied off at each wrist and elbow as though to form a sleeves that aren’t actually attached to anything while the long flowing silk pants meet knee high black leather boots. She wears a masquerade mask of silver and gold coloration in the shape of a magnificent butterfly with wings spread. Her jet black hair is concealed underneath a bleach blonde wig that has been fashioned into a thick fishtail braid that comes down to her waist line. Finally, Fifika’s walking cane becomes a pair of weapons in the form of the concealed sword wielded in one hand, while the sheath is brandished as an improvised weapon used for the sake of block and deflecting enemy strikes. When wielded this way it can be quite difficult to realize that the items are actually designed to look like a cane when together.

While Fifika’s behavior is often shackled by social norms and the requirements of her station, the Elegant Edge has none of these issues. She is loud and flamboyant, coming off as a showy Varsian who demands the attention of everyone in the room. She isn’t afraid to be crass or rude but seems to take great pleasure in outwitting or outmaneuvering opponents without having to break her stride, maintaining the illusion of elegance and control. Despite the act she is a stalwart defender of those in need and guardian of the cities inhabitants. This mentality coupled with her interference with certain criminal activities has earned her a rather foul reputation amongst the local Sczarni families but she considers it a small price to pay for the opportunity to live and little as well as do some much needed good across Sandpoint.

Originally hailing from Magnimar the Vladimitru family may have never considered themselves as members of the aristocracy they were certainly not strangers to affluent nobility. In an attempt to build a better life for their daughter, Fifika’s parents groomed her in the ways of the elites. Having moved away from Magnimar they escaped the lesser social standing they possessed there and built a new life in service to an affluent family. Fifika’s mother, Yesseni was a swordswoman of notable skill and though she had a reputation as a mercenary and thug in Magnimar, she managed to escape the label and found work as a fencing tutor, while Fifika’s father eventually began instructing in the art of ballroom dance.

Together they used every opportunity that presented itself to expose her daughter to the nobles and demonstrate her ever growing knowledge of fashion and etiquette. As she grew older she was eventually given a position much as her parents were. However rather than being put to work on physical tasks she was asked to utilize her extensive knowledge. Fifika at age 14 became an etiquette instructor and as such tutored the Prescu family’s daughter who was only five years younger than herself. While it was safe to say that the noble child, Amelia despised her lessons, her parents were proud of the progress made.

Amelia Prescu may no longer be a child and requires no further instruction, Fifika remains to this day as a servant working on retainer for the family. Amelia recognizes that there will come a time when she has children of her own that will require Fifika’s talents, and now the older woman no longer tutors Amelia that two women have formed a stronger bond that teeters dangerously on the verge of friendship. As such whenever Amelia is preparing for a major event there is no doubt that Fifika will be called in to make sure that all the decor is on the bleeding edge of noble fashion.

It seemed as though the Vladimitru family had found a new life and truly left their old behind them. However when Fifika was just nineteen years old they discovered this was not the case. Apparently Duren Vladimitru, Fifika’s father, owed money to the Sczarni families of Magnimar so when he skipped town they were intent on seeing him pay with his blood. It took almost a decade for their people to discover his new whereabouts but once they did his end was swift. Poisoned at a masquerade held by the Prescu family, he collapsed on the dancefloor.

Fifika and her mother knew the Sczarni were responsible, and it was at this point that Fifika doubled her efforts to master the sword techniques her mother had taught her. However she was not fueled by hatred, and her goal was not vengeance. Ultimately she understood that realistically she would never discover the identity of her father’s assassin and seeking revenge would only cause her to take out her feelings of anger and loss on people with little to no relation to her grievance. No, she sought not revenge, but justice. Her father’s death opened her eyes to the crime within the city. Much like her noble peers she had been ignorant of the threat of goblins, giants, and Sczarni that the average citizen lived in fear of. This would not do, and if she could do something, she knew she must. Fifika also knew that she could not take to the streets in the same way a guard or a solider could, as her peers would see it as barbaric and both she and her mother would be outcast from the noble society they had spent a lifetime trying to carve out a place within. Thus Fifika became a false front for someone new, the Elegant Edge, the vigilante that would fight the crime and injustice that had infested the streets of Sandpoint.