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Female Halfling Ninja 1

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Female Halfling Ninja 1

Best part about human slaves.....since their medium creatures we can use them as mounts.

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Female Halfling Ninja 1

"So a human, elf, and half-orc walk into a bar.....

.....followed shortly by a halfling who cleverly walks under it and then nicks the coin purses off the unconscious tall-folk before slipping off to a tavern and getting 3 times as drunk for half the coin."


Female Halfling Ninja 1

Okay dokie, here's the base stuff for my ninja. I'll be fluffing her ninja tricks to mostly just be unnamed magical or gear.

Her name is a slight homage to Dostoyevsky her nickname Crafty Neichi a play on the fact that she masquerades as a seamstress while secretly being a fence/Bellflower agent with a crafty personality.

Here's the fluffy bits:

Appearance:

Neichka stands average for a halfling at 3 foot zero inches. She has bright red hair and a soften white complexion her face littered with light peach freckles. She usually wears a gray plaid dress (think kilt) and brown and black tattered loose fitted baggy robes with a brown hood. The familiar chink of a chain shirt clinks underneath her clothes ash she walks. She carries with her a short mahogany cane, which she claims helps relieve her tired feet when traveling great distances. She has numerous weapons hidden carefully by her loose fitting clothing.

She has a single silver earring on her left ear while her right ear is scared and partially ripped off at the lobe. Around her thumb sits an fancy ring that bears some engravings that look like it might have come from a Chelish noble as it seems to have had a bit more metal recast around it to manage to fit on her thumb. She has a tattoo of a small blue flower near her wrist.

Background:

Neichka or crafty Neichi as people call her is a fiery little half-pint. Born pressed into slavery in Egorian the city of thorns like so many of her kind. Growing up she often coveted her superiors jewelery and various finery. It was her covetous nature that led her one evening to stealing the earrings of her Chelish masters mistress an act that would have dire consequence for her. One evening as she was after all of her master had gone to bed she took to one of her favorite hobbies pulling out her small assortment of trinkets and fancy garments she had both pilfered and liberated from the garbage and dressed herself up pretending to be a powerful noble and played pretend in her own little world where she had numerous human servants and the like. Her imaginary refuge would be cut short that night upon the masters wife barging in on her to request make a rare after hours demand of her. Finding Neichka dressed in finery the masters wife went into a rage, but her anger over the incident became far worse once the masters wife recognized the earring of a familiar Chelish woman upon her servant and stormed out. Acting quickly Neichka began to take off her finery and attempt to hide it before her master returned before she could finish taking of her final earring the master stormed in and in an abusive rage ripped it off her ear. She earned herself quite a few lashings that evening and her contempt and anger at losing her only refuge sparked a fire in her.

After many years of planning she finally managed to smuggle in a dagger which she quickly used to slit both her master and his wife's throat. Before stealing a few trinkets and becoming free halfling. Fortunately for her the news of a halfling bold enough to kill her own master wasn't a story that was very believable nor something Chelish citizens wanted to propagate around. In a strike of fortune someone else even took credit for her crime a young man of a competing noble house spread rumor of his clever assassination of her master in order to take political advantage of the situation. After traveling to Westcrown she had the option of escaping Cheliax, instead turned her attention to staying joining the Bellflower Network and helping other halflings escape the chains of their bondage.

Neichka is an curious oddity in Westcrown being a free halfling and rumors surround her. She's spent the majority of her life in Westcrown and has set herself up as a seamstress who sells excellently crafted clothes to chelish nobles to outfit their slaves. Unbeknown to the Chelexian's she sells her garments to is a tightly guarded secret that her outfitting for halflings contain various secret pockets interwoven in and impromptu thieves tools needed for lock picking. She runs a fencing operation in which various halfling slaves often steal from their masters and smuggle the trinkets to her for fencing after she offloads the hot merchandise she saves most holds the money for her thieves. Every so often a halfling slave has a child and conceals the pregnancy from their master once enough coin has changed hand between her she smuggles the child through her Bellflower contacts out of the country so they can have a better life. At night she's also rumored to brave the darkness and avoid the notorious shadow beasts of Westcrown making her way to the docks and jumping into a pre-arranged barrel filled with goods. She then paddles the barrel out to sea under cover of darkness to a ships seeking to smuggle illicit goods or avoid the dock fees in Westcrown proper she repeats this process many times on appointed nights in exchange for her services many ship captains take on halfling babies as cargo and give them safe journey to freer countries.

Personality:

Neichka is a clever woman who knows how to talk to the tall-folks in a manner that makes them feel superior and trusting of her words. Behind their backs however she shows nothing but contempt for them revealing her racism towards those that stand taller than 3' 6''. She's a little rough around the edges, but fond of racial jokes about humans. She's quick to mistrust and even quicker to judgment, but is typically friendly to halflings especially those that give tall-folks trouble. She's noted in the Bell Flower network for advocating revolution or more violent methods for liberation rather than their more covert and peaceful tactics. She has a bit of a temper, but often doesn't show it outright instead working out her revenge either with a dagger to the back in a dark ally, a poisoning, pilfering of a prized object, or a simply pissing in a tankard.

The fact that she's a reincarnated former Chelish slaver isn't present in her background, but all intensive purposes is cannon. She's middle aged and crunchy stuff will be posted up later. I'll pick feats when I know whether or not I can sneak in Dervish Dance at level 1 rather than have to wait till level 3. In terms of build it simply means she'll be primarily ranged combatant and likely take vanishing trick as her first ninja trick without dervish dance till level 3 and then switch to TWF flanking type character once she picks up DD.


I present my deranged dhampir murder....... a little girl named Loretta.

I threw her together from a character concept that was originally chaotic evil, but bumped her down to Neutral Evil with an emphasis on the Evil. She'll behave quite well with other characters as long as she gets to slaughter all sorts of good, brave, kind, or innocent folk.

I'd highly recommend looking over the sources in my inspiration/concept section.

Insperation/Concept:
I made Loretta primarily as a fun twist on evil. She's a Dhampir so she ages as an elf and thus appears no older than a 13 year old child while in fact being 58.

I designed her around the concept of a murderous psychopath with the fact that she appears an innocent child a twist on the character.

If you take away anything from the character please check out the two sources of inspiration for her design: (they describe the character better than I could possibly convey)

Source 1 Song: "The Curse of Millhaven" - by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds off the album Murder Ballads
Source 2 Clip: From the Anime Series Baccano! the character Ladd Russo as a loose basis.

Appearance:
Loretta appears a child of no more than 13 years old, behind this guise of innocence lies the face pure murderous evil. Her skin is a beautiful pale complexion like porcelain. She has bright green eyes and shimmering curly yellow locks. Behind her cute smile lies sharpened fangs. Her frail appearance disguises her inhuman strength and dexterity often at the folly of her victims. She's partial to cute white dresses as she finds white clashes so well with blood finds it pretty. She occasionally ties her hair into pigtails or lets when she's in an odd mood.

Personality:
Loretta delights in killing, she's long since given into her thirst for blood brought on by her heritage as a dhampir. In fact one could even say she simply embraced it from the start deriving pleasure physically compulsive pleasure of the taste of blood from her brutal killings that simply compliments her underlying inherit evil.

A killer through and through while she draws enjoyment from killing in of itself she prefers killing bastions of good and morality as well as the innocent. She has a finesse for irony and usually likes to incorporate that into her murders if possible.

Rather unhinged she often behaves like a small child occasionally whistling morbid tunes or rhymes and feigning naivete when it suites her. She has an obsession with small toys and dolls and refers to them as past victims names. She's fond of giggling like a little girl and occasionally talks to herself. She can often be found combing or twisting her hair when she isn't feasting on the blood and remains of her kills.

She holds reverence particularly for Norgorber and Lamashtu, but finds most evil gods appealing and worthy of respect including Asmodeus, Urgathoa, Zon-Kuthon, and Rovagug. She's not particularly interested in the afairs of the divine, but sees them as useful powerful assets to assist her in her fun.

She holds a tentative respect for anyone who doesn't get in the way of her murdering or aids and abets her shuffling them in the category of saved for last of people to kill.

Backround/Crimes:

Crime: Murder Punishment: Death by be-heading

Born of a trist with a vampire that dominated her mother a common whore Loretta's mother never cared for her as she was a reminder of the unfortunate incident. Fortunately for her Loretta never cared much for her mother either as evidenced by the murder off her and her multiple bastard children when she was old enough to accomplish the task. She took it a step further and mutilated and ate the bodies convincing authorities that Loretta perished in the incident as well.

Over the next 50 some odd years she traveled from town to town pretending to be a lost orphan whose parents abandoned her. Often loving families would take her in out of the kindness of their hearts providing her a place to hide as she killed multiple victims before killing off the family that took her in and moving on to the next town.

A cunning girl she often varied her travels to keep authorities off her tail and made a large amount of her murders look like accidents or animal attacks, still she gained infamy as an unknown serial killer. Her brash antics eventually came to a halt when the obvious became apparent after many years of performing the same routine tricks. She was found covered in the blood of her latest adoptive family bodies mutilated.

Because of the severity of her crimes in spite her unique appearance she was sentenced to death and upon the ruling she confessed to a multitude of crimes that weren't even attributed to her including arson and various accidents ranging over the course of many years shocking the court with horror and primarily disbelief. She giggled the whole while as they took her away the court shocked over the implications of enforcing the penalty of death on such a cute innocent looking little girl

Will throw up crunchy details ASAP in Character profile.