[Characters] Lianna Edrin

[TheMystic]

Lianna Edrin   HP: ?/? AC: ? /Touch ? /Flat Footed ? CMD: ? Persistant Effects Temporary Effects   Hexes Cantrips   1st Level

[TheMystic]

Phase 2 Questionnaire 1. How does your character interact with the others within a group?   (1) This part depends on the others, among those she feels she can control she will treat others with contempt, a man who jumps at her command gains no respect. Among the party she will likely find equals, both in power and personality, and she will respond to that with fair-handedness. With such people she is open, cheerful and caring... at least on the surface. Lianna has measured her words, careful to keep the temples from learning of her witchery, and Gaelen of her search for her siblings. Should somebody prove that they have power over her, she will submit quickly and easily, not taking action to save herself until she is certain of success. A person who tries unsucessfully to assert such power, they will be destroyed, their power base, their spirit and if these do not stop them, their lives. A few tropes apply well here, of the four temperaments Lianna could best be described as Melancholic. Looking at the archetypes presented in the five man band, she is unlikely to become the leader, being rather disinclined to publicise herself. She would likely take a role as something of "The Smart Guy" or "The Lancer" but could also fulfill the role of "The Chick," albeit in an unusual fashion, if she needs the party to achieve her goal, and acting the mediator seems the only way to ensure that it progresses. 2. What is your character's role in a group?   (2) A healer, first and foremost (Noticing something of a lack of a full healer was what finally got me to settle on a character concept.) Her role, both directly and indirectly, will be to keep the group going so they can do their jobs. A direct attack in a combat situation is a last resort for Lianna, but she is well versed in debilitating a foe. Outside of a combat situation, it is her knowledge, and her social grace that will put her in good stead, though others more specialised may exceed her in the latter. 3. How is your character not as they seems? I want one or two skills that would surprise others if they found out he knows them. Also include personality traits, positive or negative, that would similarly surprise others.   (3) Lianna is in many ways not as she seems, and it depends on how far you dig. On the surface, her ward is that of a mundane healer, only those in the know, know that she deals in magical healing. But even those know her as a kind healer, almost the ideal, though the criminals she treats in the back room know better. Some may have been surprised at how well she can get stains out of clothes, but since the time her mother taught her she has become a healer, a profession where stains are common, and less well known, can prestidigitate the stain free anyway. Lianna can sing, quite beautifully 4. What are your character's goals, conscious and, perhaps, subconscious?   (4) Both consciously and unconsciously Lianna strives for security, at the same time, she is subconsciously adverse to handouts, having seen the effects of Gaelen's Loan. This security takes several forms, such as economic, social and that granted by magical self defense. Find her Siblings, she loves them and hates the fact that they suffered the more terrible fate from her parent's hubris. Minor / Ongoing goals --------------- Teach Keiran magic 5. How easily does your character love? Have they been in love?   (5) Has never loved, and would not love easily. She would find it easier to love one person, if her faith in people in general was restored, and likely a person who guided her to this realisation would have a special place in her heart. An exception to this, she loves her siblings, a feeling lingering from a different time. 6. Is your character racist at all, either now or in their past?   (6) No more than one would expect for the setting. She makes generalistic assumptions about people, halflings are probably sailors, half-elves are probably diplomatic bastards, Varsians are a little more free with the definition of ownership etc. But she doesn't refuse service, or charge more or anything like that based on race. 7. All people believe something that is not true, both about the world around them and about themselves. What lies/untruths does your character believe about themselves and the world around them?   (7) This is rather subjective, but I'd like to believe she is wrong in her cynicism about people in general. She believes that her patron is benevolent, at least towards her. This creature that grants her the power born of time itself. The truth is again up to you. 8. How is your character about material possessions?   (8) Neither for, nor against. She does not eschew ownership, but at the same time has little in the way of idle knick knacks. Even should her financial state change, this probably won't. She does enjoy flowers, and has a chess board, among other things. But if something serves no function, she has little use of it. 9. What does your character perceive their major problems to be?   (9) The Laws, and the temples. The former she doesn't believe are misplaced. But her practice of regularly healing criminals makes her party to many crimes, most of which, for obvious reasons involved violence. It is for this reason as well that she fears the temples attention. It is no secret that most, if not all religions decry the practice of witchcraft, for whatever reason it is done, they cannot condone accepting power from an entity outside of their own doctrine, a threat to the pantheon in general, so many believe. For this reason Lianna particularly fears that the temples will try to undo her, and that her repeated involvement with criminals will give them just the means to do it. 10. What does he perceive the solutions to those problems to be?   (10) Cut out the criminal elements. This she anticipates is going to be more complicated than merely refusing to treat them. Witnesses are not much of a problem, they would have to implicate themselves as the primary party in their criminal dealings to testify against her. No, what she fears is reprisal. It is well known that nobody, absolutely nobody, simply leaves the 'game.' She would not even consider trying to withdraw until her own power base was great enough that they would consider her too great an effort to punish. 11. What are your character's religious beliefs?   (11) Lianna is an agnostic, she believes in the gods but has yet to find any god that speaks to her. A fact exacerbated by her witchery, her patron actually having her ear makes the gods seem distant, though still clearly powerful. Combined with her habit of avoiding the temples, so as not to raise their ire for her own magic and this seems unlikely to change particularly soon. 12. What does your character fear?   (12) The Temple's Ire, she both believes in the gods (though doesn't follow any) and even putting that aside, she recognises their power and knows that she is an active practicer of something which all temples, regardless of creed disapprove of. Only the Laws of Korvosa itself, which is strange as this might sound for Korvosamercifully secular, would protect her from the more active temples if she drew too much attention. That her reliance on criminal activities to maintain solvency (and her extra-curricular activities, such as continued magical studies and the hunt for her siblings, without which she could reach solvency anyway) is drawing her down the same path to ruin as her parents. 13. How much of a temper does your character have? What sorts of things set them off?   (13) Very little, such that can be seen, she can get angry, but she is ice, rather than fire. Her temper may be lost in extreme circumstances, her siblings being killed just as she finds them for example. Otherwise, it is less of a case of getting mad, and more one of getting even. The one exception to this, is a person who will not let go of their delusions, or one who lets their delusions negatively affect others. Such people will anger her greatly, it is what killed her parents, but worse, it is what enslaved her siblings.

[TheMystic]

Application Lianna Edrin Race: Human Class: Hedge Witch (Time Patron Time heals all wounds) Alignment: True Neutral, hedging towards Neutral Good     1) Lianna's parents were both unskilled labourers, her father a factory worker and her mother a laundress, they borrowed money to support their family of three, desperate to maintain the facade of comfort of a skilled worker, as the former occupants of the house, Lianna's grandparents on her father's side had been as a competent carpenter. Most of the furniture in the house was his handiwork, though the house itself was older and part of a continuous strip of residences in a similarly wealthy neighbourhood, this furniture made up most of the profit when the house was finally sold in an otherwise poor state of repair. 2) Lianna's parents owed Gaelen money, failing to repay it they were killed and her younger brother and sister were taken to balance the debt. Lianna would have been taken too, had she not been buying vegetables in the market. 3) Lianna was a smart kid, when she saw her brother and sister being dragged away from up the street she knew she could do nothing to help them, she hid until the thugs were gone. 4) The vegetables, meant for a family of five, sustained Lianna for her first few days on her own, the change from the trip a little more. But the hunger set in and it became aparant that many who knew her comiserated her families plight, so few either could, or would offer tangible aid. As she became more desperate, the whispers started. The voice promised to help, to teach her, and it did, though it always became oddly silent when she asked why. 5) Lianna had to sell the family house, modest as it had been to pay a hedge mage to teach her a spell. She did not care which spell exactly, for her patron had been teaching her another way to apply her magic. She began to channel the magic of her spell into healing, a valuable commodity. Even that one spell was enough to keep her from poverty, though most of her clients were those who wished to circumvent the law, for it was these who needed to avoid the temples. It is around this time that she began to feel comfortable enough with her own security to begin her search for her siblings. 6) Now Lianna is a fully fledged hedge witch, though she hardly advertises, most religious organisations tend to frown, at the very least, on her powers. She can support herself, offering healing to those who cannot pay the more stringent temple tithes. Though for those that would avoid the temples for other reasons her fees are even more prohibitive. 7) Lianna's gentle appearance, and healer's profession belies a calm assessment of any given scenario to seek her own benefit. Though a healer by profession, it is survival and profit that drives her, not mercy. A result of the lack of charity she herself received after her parents murder. She still helps friends if she has excesses, but a stranger on the street can expect no aid from her, without payment in return. Her bedside manner however remains excellent and has earned her many repeat customers. If it weren't for her hunts for her missing siblings she could live off the profits of her business, comfortably even if she continues to take less 'legitimate' clients.   In Character: Find her siblings, rescue them from Gaelen's grasp, this will probably involve a permanent end to Gaelen, to prevent reprisal. In Character: Earn a great enough income that she can stop associating with criminal elements. Other things may also be required to break free, after so many years of involvement Out of Character: I would quite like to see her faith in humanity as a whole restored   Known to her: Forthcoming Known to her: It's not a secret, particularly not from any party she joins, but she doesn't go out of her way to advertise the fact that she is a witch, operating on word of mouth in the local community so as not to draw the ire of the temples. Unknown to her: Both her siblings yet live, but her brother is well on his way to becoming one of Gaedren's Liutenants   Friend: Valen Damar, regular client. A thug, though a genuinely nice one, oxymoronic as that may sound. He is genuinely sorry when his 'Clients' opt to be beaten up instead of paying him off, there are rules ya' know. He's good with a club and enjoys his one line jokes. Friend: Keiran Blake, just ten years old and already this young lad has broken more bones than the average citizen does in his lifetime. A bright lad to curious for his own good who spends much of his time running the shingles, his parents are bakers that live in the neighbourhood (very good bread too, Lianna always buys from them) and since the first time they brought him to her for healing he has joined her each Sunday to play a game of strategy with her. Though his intellect will probably lead him to other pursuits. He pesters Lianna to teach him magic and just recently he has managed to cast mage hand. (if it wasn't clear already this boy is likely to grow up to be an arcane trickster) They aren't friends, but they sometimes help each otherAlly: Adren Gram, the hedgemage that taught Lianna her first spell. Expelled from the academae for malpractice when it was revealed that he had cast spells on several of his fellow students without their permission. This practice hasn't exactly died away and over the period of her relatively short apprenticeship Lianna was subject to many spells, none did permanent harm, but most were uncomfortable none-the-less... There was that week she spent with green skin for example Enemy: Barrak Hensol, local minor criminal leader once tried to exclusively aquire her services as a healer, thankfully by the time he got this idea her powers had developped to the point where she could defend herself, but he still would have claimed her if it hadn't been for the assistance of Valen Damar   Memory: There was that week she was green, she definitely remembers that. Quirk: Loves the cheese topped buns the the Blake family bakery makes Mannerisms: Upon meeting somebody new Lianna will purse her lips, judging. If she is in a position of control (she won't do this in the presence of royalty, or while being arrested for example) she will even circle, making her evaluation

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How old was Lianna when her parents were killed and her siblings taken? How does she know who Gaedran Lamm is and that her parents owed him money? How was she, as a child, able to sell the house?

[TheMystic]

I was thinking that she would have been about 12, making the search five years long, with her siblings about eight at the time. This makes her old enough to have seen through the veneer of comforts her parents were trying to maintain, although not old enough to know how to respond. A name learned eavesdropping on her parents, and heard again on her search for her siblings.

As a child she was able to sell her house unofficially, and at a very poor fee. Much of the money came from her selling the furniture made by her grandfather, a finer craft than the building.

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Was she able to keep anything her father had made as a memento?

[TheMystic]

No, and this is a fact that pains her greatly. Her grandfather, the carpenter was a talented man, not extraordinarily so, but talented none the less, and a generally good contributor to society, she holds his memory, vague as it is as the model of what a parent should be over that of her own parents, though her cynicism makes her a much less generous person than he was. She could have accepted her parents as unskilled labourers earning poor wages, at least she believes she could. But she loathes them because their foolish refusal to face reality spilled over, harming their children.

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Has she spent any time trying to pick up her grandfather's craft? Is there anyone in particular who bought specific items, items she may remember fondly?

[TheMystic]

A little, but even had she the proper tools, and someone to teach her, she shows little aptitude for the craft, indeed most mundane crafts escape her, though healing came to her, first magical, then the mundane as she began to understand what was being healed by her magics. Her other skills are those of the tongue, or that of the mind.

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Gotcha. Just trying to see if her grandfather's craft and furniture may have a future tie in.

[TheMystic]

It certainly could, should she discover where it has gone, she would certainly wish to reacquire it. But creating more of her own is beyond her.

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Cool. That's it for now

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Where does Lianna live? What is her living situation?

[TheMystic]

Her house is in one of the poorer districts, where most of her clientele are found, those too poor, or too criminal to go to the temples for healing. For somebody in the district, the house is very large. But this is necessary, because the ground floor houses her ward, the walls are lined with cots, with two smaller rooms off to the side, one contains her supplies (Properly locked, given the location) the other is accessed through the back of the house only and contains two more cots, for those that wish to be unseen should the guard come to visit.

This main ward is kept in good repair, it is a house of healing, dirt and disrepair would discourage customers. If she can afford it, the area is even decorated with fresh flowers.

Upstairs, however, is slightly different, it is kept tidy, and it is kept mostly clean, but much of the space is unused. Her furniture is limited to a bed, a table, two chairs, a secure chest and a bookshelf, as well as a nest of sorts, formed of rags and skins for her familiar.

Living alone, and used to it, Lianna uses her living space for sleeping, for studying her magic in private and for little else. She spends much of her time downstairs in the ward, or out on the streets, searching for word of her siblings.

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Thanks, that's all I have for now