Your knowledge of how bureaucracies function lets you gain access to the records and inner workings of any noble court or government you encounter. You know who the movers and shakers are, whom to go to for the favors you seek, and what the current intrigues of interest in the group are.
trait: I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it—I’m a perfectionist.
ideal: Aspiration. I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
bond: The Court of One Million Stars where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me.
flaw: I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.
*Zove was raised in the Shadow Realms' illicit capital of Dalliance. There she rose to the position of attache quickly, mostly due to her aqueous morality.
*Most recently she resided in the spiral downs of the Court of One Million Stars. Here she was competing against 4 peers for an apprenticeship to one of the Court's ambassadors: Usior.
*On the shadow side, Courlandia is a desolate apocalyptic ruin. Usior and Zove had found themselves lost on assignment within the shifting, crumbling brick when an event in Midgard pierced their dimension. Zove would never realize it but a heartless murder caused a distortion to ripple across their location, in an instant morphing the ruins into a technological metropolis...and Usior completely disappearing in the process.
*When the shadows settled, only one thing remained of the ambassador's possessions...a book of elven high magic, indecipherable and and tainted with the whirling darkness of time.
*Nearby she also found a passage into Midgard, her realm being drawn to strong outbursts of memory and emotion. It was the basement corner wreathed in a black void, the murderer nearby and covered in blood...she did not realize at first she had even crossed over.
*Her nearly perfected diplomatic greeting was met with surprised and insane babble, but otherwise she found no apparent danger and could pass and wander the streets of another Courlandia. This one neither ruin nor metropolis, but something in between and at least by initial appearances much safer.
*As far as Zove knows, she is still on assignment and being watched and evaluated. When Bentknee approached her about further travels, she winked knowingly (to Bentknee's confusion) and readily agreed.
Spells:atk: +5; save: 13
c: fire bolt, minor illusion, message, starburst
spellbook:
(i) illusory scriptR, comprehend languagesR, alarmR, detect magicR, snare, sleep, find familiarR, unseen servantR
(ii) enlarge/reduce, shadows brought to lightR, locate object, invisibility
Creation Equipment:
class: dagger, focus(book), scholar's pack(backpack, a book of lore, a bottle of ink, an ink pen, 10 sheets of parchment, a little bag of sand, and a small knife), spellbook
backg: A set of fine clothes and a pouch containing 5 gp
LvlUp Summary:
hp +6
slot +1 1st
spells: find familiar, unseen servant
tradition: elven high magic
hp +4
slot +1 1st, +2 2nd
spells: enlarge/reduce, SBtL
hp: +6
abi: +2 int
cantrip: starburst (MHH pg 195, 60 ft, line of sight point, cha vs d8 radiant)
2nd: locate object, invisibility
+1 2nd slot
Post-Creation Tracking
+16.66 (gold from cave)
-10 (familiar)
-10 (familiar, form change)
+31.92 (Narg+Carriage)
+pearl
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current funds = 33.58 gp
