[spoiler="Faunra Scarlet"/]
[b/]Name:[/b] Faunra Scarlet (adoptive name, real family name unknown)
[b/]Age & Gender:[/b] 126 & Female (Elf)
[b/]Height & Weight:[/b] 5'11" & 116 lbs
[b/]Appearance:[/b] Faunra is tall with long dark brown hair that borders on black. Her skin is pale. Her eyes are piercing from a combination of stress and their sparkling emerald green color. She wears a brown and white cloak over the torn rags of what used to be a dress. A leather belt hangs from her waist, slightly too large for her frame. From the belt hang two metal daggers - well cared for and of great workmanship. On her back she carries a long bow that is taller than she is and a quiver of arrows. A sack of various objects hangs over her shoulders. Her muscles are miniscule but tight and wiry, giving her more strength than she appears. She is relatively attractive, save a long scar that crosses the right side of her face and down to the back of her left hand. Her skin is traced with veins of gold, and at the base of her neck a golden orb with a single large ruby in it is embedded in her skin. This is the remains of an amulet (see history) that was murged with her skin after a nearly-deadly explosion.
[b/]History:[/b] Faunra has always been a quiet girl. Growing up on the streets where to draw attention can mean death, she learned to always stayed quiet. She and her older brother Biratlort lived on those streets for nearly 40 years. Her brother did what he needed to keep them alive and she did whatever she could to help him whether that was playing the distraction, fencing the newly acquired goods, or treating their injuries. Then one day, their luck changed. Biratlort stole from the wrong man, a thief named Jybel Scarlet. Jybel chased them through the city for hours, until they were cornered in an alleyway. Rather than killing them, Jybel began laughing at the situation. Impressed by their skills, he offered to take them under his wing in his growing "family" of thieves. They accepted.
For 20 years, she Biratlort worked as street runner's and bandits. Then, on one fateful day, Jybel chose to steal from a traveling nobleman. While looting the carts, the nobleman's guards resisted and Jybel was slain. Their leader gone and their lines broken, the "family" fled - most never made it 30 feet. When the first of them reached Faunra and swung his sword, Biratlort interceded. Her brother was struck down, and the tip of the blade caught Faunra, leaving her with her scar. Faunra ran and never looked back. She escaped with only a strange ruby and gold amulet that had cost her family.
For the last 60 years, she has wandered from city to city taking what she needs and skipping town when the city watch finally catches notice. Despite her life so far, Faunra does not enjoy stealing. More than anything, she wants to find a place where she can live and need not steal to survive. Since her brothers death, she has been Hemophobic - the fear of blood. She has seen enough blood in her life that the mere sight of it does not phase her, but when she gets blood on her, it reminds her of when her brother and father died and she closes to the outside world. Despite her age and experience, she is still barely an adult by elven standards - a fact that annoys her to no end.
About 6 months ago, Faunra was approached by a strange man. He called himself Atticus. Atticus needed help acquiring an "Elemental Predominanting Tool" from a well known (and hated) aristocrat - the Marquis of Torinia - and was willing to offer significant compensation for the effort. Despite her misgivings, she agreed. Under the cover of darkness, Faunra broke into the nobleman's home and took the device along with several emeralds as a "bonus". Hours later, in an old tavern, she delivered her ill-gotten gains. Unfortunately, the Marquis was both perceptive and unforgiving; not minutes into the trade, the Marquis personal guard had found them. Ducking behind the bar, the two escaped out the back. Several hours, and most of the "appropriated" gems later, the two were out of reach. In need of a change of location, Faunra decided to follow Atticus on his quest to the Tower of Druaga and a fellowship was born.
[b/]Reason to be here/things to do:[/b] Faunra is currently caught between reasons to climb. Prior to the climb, her intent was to undo the events that killed her family using the god-like powers gained at the top. However, in climbing the tower, she has sparked a relationship with another climber. If she continued with her original plan, she would unmake this relationship. She is currently conflicted between her familial lover and duty and her romantic-love and personal desires. She is continuing to climb without reason, because of these conflicted feelings. If asked, she says it is because of her duty to her friends (particularly Atticus who she has promised to help save his level and Damien who saved her life - an action she has yet to repay)
[b/]Personality:[/b] Faunra is emotionally closed to people, though she wishes to be anything but. In large crowds, her years of street life take control and she bolts for the shadows, but in small groups she is open enough to converse and one-on-one or in small groups of people she knows and trusts, she is an open happy person. Faunra has lived on the street her entire life so she vastly enjoys even the smallest of luxuries. Faunra is skilled at reading people and dislikes people she perceives as wasteful. She does not begrudge people with wealth or status, but those that abuse the privilege will find their coin purse missing more often than not. Aside from her emotional distance, she suffers from Hemophobia. Faunra has difficulty believing in any higher powers given her life thus far but hopes that her doubts are misplaced and that she will see her family again in the afterlife. She is sentimental and kept the stolen amulet to remind her to be cautious. In general, trusting people is a problem for her so she is generally expecting a knife in the back at any moment. She is also rather uncouth - she has a bad habit of missing social cues others wouldn't and saying perceived truths without thinking of the social consequences.
[b/]Notable skills:[/b] Faunra is skilled at many things. She knows how to pickpocket, open doors, disable traps, and sneak her way around. She knows how to lie through her teeth and can tell when others are doing the same; she is very perceptive. She knows how to treat minor wounds and what plants and herbs are good for healing. She is skilled enough with her pair of daggers and bow. In addition, she can usually find the pulse of a city with supernatural ease - she knows everything that's happening (legal or otherwise) the first day she arrives in a city. She knows how to forage for food and can hunt with relative skill in a pinch. In combat, she stays in the shadows and attacks unaware targets. While she can hold her own in a street fight, in a proper fight she would quickly become overwhelmed without support.
[b/]Equipment:[/b] Faunra caries the following: Two well crafted, matching, serrated daggers - one of which was her brothers, a recurved long-bow and 2 dozen or so arrows, A set of reinforced leather armor she wears beneath her normal clothing, thieves tools (crowbar, lock-picks, small file, hand saw, small vials of weak acid, etc) a medical kit (Bandages, medical salve, anti-venom/toxin, etc), survival gear (water-skin, bedroll, 50ft of rope, chalk, and flint/steel), the amulet she took, and a small pouch of currency she "acquired"
[b/]Misc:[/b] Faunra and Aleister Cole are in a romantic relationship, started on a prior level.
[b/]Note:[/b] I deliberately left several plot hooks in the character (Value of stolen amulet? Any crime family survived? Nobleman's name/reason for travel/etc) for GM's to play with if they need to get the party on track. Please feel free to use/abuse as you see fit. [/spoiler]
