Verse-Nine
Ledger-keeper & poisoner · Guild fixer
“Everyone owes something, darling. I'm simply the one who collects.”
Gender
Female
Age
29 years
Species
Dwarf
Alignment
Neutral Good
Appearance
A short, broad-shouldered dwarven woman with warm copper skin dusted in freckles and a spray of soot from candle-smoke. Her dark auburn hair is braided into two thick, coiled plaits pinned with tiny brass ledger-clasps, and a single decorative fine braid of chin-hair — a proud dwarven-woman's ornament, threaded with gold wire and beads — frames her soft, round-cheeked face. Her hazel eyes are quick and amused, lined with kohl. She wears a fitted charcoal coat of oiled leather over a wine-red waistcoat crowded with hidden pockets.
Occupation
Debt-collector and clandestine fixer for the Undercount, a subterranean merchants' guild
Personality
Traits
Motivations
She grew up in a debtors' warren where kindness was currency and cruelty was interest. She now works the ledgers herself, determined to never again be the one who owes.
Goals
To buy out her own family's inherited blood-debt to the Undercount and, quietly, to dismantle the man who holds it from the inside.
Secrets
She has been skimming a fraction of every collection into a hidden account, and she keeps a vial of slow poison she has already administered, in trace doses, to her guildmaster's wine.
Way of speaking
Silky, teasing, and warm — she disarms with compliments and dry wit, lowering her voice to a conspiratorial purr and always making a threat sound like a favor.
Equipment
Special abilities
- Reads a person's fears and debts within moments of meeting them
- Expert in alchemical poisons and their antidotes
- Silver-tongued negotiator who can talk her way out of a locked room
Possessions & property
- A brass abacus inherited from her mother
- A hidden coin-purse of skimmed silver
- A folded map of the debtors' warrens where she was born
- A gold-wired braid-bead marking her guild rank