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About Marcella the Marionette

Marcella Mignot was born in Galt, and that country’s chaotic political climate shaped much of her early life. Constant upheavals within the government forced the Mignot family from village to village, and so the young Marcella never had a place that she could truly call home. That feeling of being a constant outsider followed her even after she left Galt as an adolescent to seek her fortune elsewhere in the world.

Marcella was taken under the wing of a master thief, a Keleshite woman named Sorouz, after Sorouz caught her trying to slice open her coin purse with a rusty knife in the Taldan city of Yanmass. Sorouz saw both a spark of greatness and hunger within Marcella and agreed to teach the girl everything she knew about the rogue’s life: what to steal, who to take it from, when to pilfer it, and, most importantly, how not to get caught. The two traveled throughout Taldor, Qadira, and Andoran over the next few years, and soon Marcella went from student to mastermind.

After robbing a corrupt Andoran senator’s manse, Sorouz took her share of the spoils and retired to Absalom. Still eager to ply her trade, Marcella continued on her own, never staying in (or stealing from) one place for long. She soon began to solely target the rich and powerful, especially if she’d witnessed them abusing their position or treating a member of the lower class poorly.

With this modus operandi, Marcella made her way into Cheliax, knowing she’d have an abundance of targets. However, while in the capital city of Egorian, the thief ran afoul of a wealthy diabolist whose fiendish minions magically tracked her to her hideout (close to The Terrific Toybox) after she stole their master’s prized possession: an adamantine tuning fork set to one of the levels of Hell. The minions killed Marcella to retrieve the item, but her story didn’t end there.

The next thing Marcella remembers is waking up on a table in some kind of workshop. An older human man loomed over her, holding a rasp in one hand and a paintbrush in another. Marcella tried to scramble to feet only to discover that all her limbs were made of wood and attached to pieces of string. She eventually learned that she was in the basement of The Terrific Toybox and that her spirit had come to reside within a marionette mime recently crafted by the toy maker Gettorio Galla, due to the innate magic of the shop. Though surprised, she soon came to terms with her new life, getting to know Gettorio (who reminded her of her father) and the other poppets, and calling the toyshop her home.

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Languages Common, Goblin, Halfling
Worn Items hand crossbow with 10 bolts, healer’s tools, lesser bravo’s brew, minor elixir of life, oil of potency, shortsword. studded leather, thieves’ tools (2 replacement picks), 1 gp

STATS & SKILLS
STR +1, DEX +3, CON +1, INT +2, WIS +0, CHA +2
Acrobatics +7
Arcana +6
Athletics +5
Deception +6
Diplomacy +6
Intimidation +6
Medicine +4
Occultism +6
Performance +6
Religion +4
Stealth +7
Survival +4
Thievery +9
Underworld Lore +6

OFFENSE & DEFENSE
Melee Shortsword (agile, finesse, versatile S) +7 Damage 1d6+1 piercing damage
Ranged Hand Crossbow (range increment 60 ft, reload 1) +7 Damage 1d6 piercing damage

FEATS
Ancestry Feature Ghost Poppet: Marcella awakened when a bit of another person’s life force and a fragment of their soul—possibly, but not always, at the moment of their death—found its way into her constructed body. She gains resistance to void damage equal to half her level (minimum 1).
Ancestry Feature Constructed
Ancestry Feature Flammable[/b]
Ancestry Feat Harmless Doll: You look like nothing more than an ordinary toy, doll, or statuette, and you can fool others with your innocuous appearance. You gain the trained proficiency rank in Deception (or another skill if you’re already trained in Deception), and you can Impersonate an inanimate toy or a mindless poppet. You can Hide without any cover or concealment from creatures that don’t realize you’re alive so long as you’re in a location where a toy of your shape wouldn’t be out of place, like in a carnival booth, city street, or toy shop (at the GM’s discretion). If you succeed, onlookers still see you, but they mistake you for an inanimate toy. After being fooled once, they realize you’re alive, and you can’t Hide from them in that way again.
Class Feature Sneak Attack: Marcella deals an additional 1d6 precision damage to off-guard creatures when she Strikes with an agile or finesse melee weapon, an agile or finesse unarmed attack, a ranged weapon attack, or a ranged unarmed attack.
Class Feature Rogue’s Racket > Mastermind
Class Feature Surprise Attack
Class Feat Mobility
Class Nimble Dodge
Skill Feat Experienced Smuggler
Skill Feat Quick Squeeze
Skill Feat Wary Disarmament