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About Asta Blackheart

N Female human Winter Witch 6 (Favoured class)

Init +2; Senses Perception +3

AC 12 (+2 Dex.)

hp 41

Fort +4; Ref +4; Will +7

Speed 30 ft.

Melee
+3 Dagger, 1d4
+3 Quarterstaff, 1d6

Ranged
+5 Dagger, 1d4
+5 Sling, 1d4

Str 10, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 18, Wis 12, Cha 10

Base Atk +3; CMB +3; CMD +15

Feats
Additional traits
Alertness (familiar benefit)
Extra Hex
Iron Will
Toughness

Skills
Appraise +7 (+4 Int., +3 familiar benefit) / +9 - only for ancient items and ioun stones (+4 Int., +3 familiar benefit, +2 trait bonus)
Bluff +9 (5 skill ranks, +0 Cha., +3 class skill, +1 trait)
Craft (mapmaking) +9 (2 ranks, +4 Int., +3 class skill)
Fly +6 (1 rank, +2 Dex., +3 class skill)
Intimidate +4 (1 skill rank, +3 class skill)
Knowledge (arcana) +13 (6 skill ranks, +4 Int., +3 class skill)
Knowledge (history) +10 (2 skill ranks, +4 Int., +3 class skill, +1 trait bonus)
Knowledge (nature) +11 (4 skill ranks, +4 Int., +3 class skill)
Knowledge (nobility) +10 (6 ranks, +4 Int.)
Knowledge (planes) +8 (1 skill rank, +4 Int., +3 class skill)
Linguistics +9 (5 skill ranks, +4 Int.)
Perception +3 (+1 Wis., +2 familiar)
Sense motive +9 (4 skill ranks, +1 Wis., +3 class skill, +1 trait bonus)
Spellcraft +13 (6 skill ranks, +4 Int., +3 class skill)
Use magic device +4 (1 rank, +0 Cha., +3 class skill)

Traits
Azlanti inheritor
Bastard
Fast-talker
Strip the veils

Languages
Azlant, Common, Draconic, Giant, Hallit, Skald, Sylvan, Undercommon, Varisian

SQ Cantrips, Cold Flesh, Cold Resistance 5, Familiar (Raven), Hex (Evil Eye, Feral Speech, Flight, Healing), Ice Magic, Patron (Moon)

Magic
Spells/day: 4 / 4 / 3

Spells known:
0 - All + Ray of Frost
1 - Command, Cure light wounds, Ear-piercing scream, Forced Quiet, Frostbite, Mage armor, Obscuring mist, Ray of Sickening, Summon monster I, Unprepared combatant
2 - Cure moderate wounds, False life, Gentle repose, Haunting mists, See invisibility, Umbral weapon, Vomit swarm
3 - Earth tremor, Glyph of warding, Heroism, Ice spears, Lightning bolt, Loathsome veil, Pierce disguise, Remove curse, Riversight, Summon monster III

Spells prepared: 4/4/4/3
0 - Detect magic, Light, Ray of frost, Stabilize
1 - Ear-piercing scream x 3, Mage armour
2 - False life, Umbral weapon, Vomit swarm x 2
3 - Lightning bolt, Loathsome veil, Summon monster III

Equipment
1832 gp
5 sp

Backpack
Bit and bridle
Bedroll
Cauldron
Cleric's vestments
Dagger
Donkey
Feed (7 days)
Holy symbol, wooden (Sivanah)
Holy text (Sivanah)
Mapmaker's kit
Parchment x7
Potion of Cure Light Wounds x2
Quarterstaff
Rations (7 days)
Rope (silk, 50 ft.)
Saddle
Saddlebags
Scroll case
Signet ring (House Rogarvia)
Sling
Sling bullets (9)
Spell component pouch
Spellbook with identify - mage armor - reduce person - silent image - unseen servant
Waterskin

Appearance
Asta is short for an Ulfen, and has the slender build of her age. Among her own people, this made her stand out and made her the subject of some not-so-subtle jokes about little girls trying to play at being grown women. Among other people, she is merely pleasantly petite. Her face is pretty enough, but pale. Her eyes are large pools of icy blue, and her shoulder-length hair is the chill colour of frost and snow. Asta's preference for dark clothes makes her pallor stand out even more, but it somehow lends her an ethereal charm. There is something fey about her looks, something refined - rather like a masterful sculpture from ancient times, given life.

Background
Asta was born in Algidheart in Irrisen, and raised by her maternal grandmother; her father had died before her birth, and her mother had passed away briefly after.

Little Asta started manifesting signs of witchcraft around her tenth birthday. She was taken on as an apprentice by one of the local magistrates and trained to become yet another Winter Witch. At first, she was content - even happy. Winter Witches rule all of Irrisen, after all, and Asta enjoyed the prospect of being a member of the ruling elite, living in luxury; she had always had big dreams of grand cities and amazing glory -- a possible sign of an ancient strain of blood that had crawled its way down the centuries to the young woman.

Instead of the high life she dreamed of, however, Asta was handed the position of a glorified secretary to Algidheart's magistrate. Whenever she tried to advance, she was told that she was too young, or that she was too valuable in her current position. When she offered ideas to improve Algidheart, her ideas were dismissed as the fancies of 'a little girl'. The situation became intolerable. When Asta sought some brief diversion in the intimate company of a young man she had met in the magistrate's offices, the situation deterioated even further; as it turned out, the very agreeable young man was the chosen companion of another, rather more highly-favoured Winter Witch.

On top of all of this... awkwardness... Asta's grandmother died. (Peacefully, of old age, in her sleep, in the rather nice house which Asta's wages and limited prestige had paid for.) While settling the matters of her Nana's estate and her old belongings, Asta found a pile of letters, sent by a nobleman in Brevoy that she had never heard of. One of the envelopes even contained a beautiful ring, which Asta took for herself. The young Witch was at first startled and then amused to discover these were rather steamy love letters, which implied her grandmother had had an intense affair with a member of House Rogarvia during her wanderlust-filled youth... which had resulted in a child when she came back home to Irrisen.

Asta considered her current station in life, and she considered the news that merchants and travellers had brought from abroad. New kingdoms were there for the founding, in Brevoy, and Asta was still brimming with ambition and her odd dreams of a glorious past.

The decision to sneak out of Irrisen and make for the Stolen Lands was easily made. Asta found help with some 'sister Witches' who were strongly affiliated with the cult of Sivanah, goddess of illusion. The young woman's promise that she would make sure to advance the cause of Sivanah if she managed to gain power had a little something to do with their willingness to help... Asta does not mind; she is fond of Sivanah.