Editing Lydia Maples, esq. (section)

== Other Traits ==
'''Defense''' 1

'''Integrity''' 1

===Injuries===
Armor ---

Bloodied '''OO'''

Wounded '''OO'''

Maimed '''OO'''

Near Death '''O'''

Taken Out '''O'''
===Edges===
'''Fame 1''': Your celebrity is local (confined to your town or city) or it’s a small following on the internet or in a niche hobby. Everyone in those circles knows you. Gain +1 Enhancement to Influence actions while engaging with people who know who you are. Beyond that, your fame does not apply.

'''Resources 1''': you have a generous disposable income. Whenever you leverage your resources for a relevant influence action gain +1 Enhancement that stacks.

'''Unusually Secure Headquarters 1''': This secure place is protected from invasions or discovery by the group’s enemies and is always a haven to which they can retreat. If one of the squad members requires special needs (such as no exposure to sunlight, or fresh grave earth to sleep in), the secure headquarters provides such a thing. It is always a safe place to store items, or to keep vulnerable Storyguide characters away from harm.

'''Heirloom 1''': Silver Saber (Enhancement +2, Piercing, Wounding)  This Heirloom is a Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber (US army standard issue in the Civil War) modified with inlays of ritually purified silver and imbued with the magic of curses. The power of the silver  protects the user from 'the depredations of monsters'.  While wielding the Silver Saber, apply its Enhancement that stacks to defense actions against non-human enemies — including other Accursed.
*Lydia is thoroughly aware of its accursed history. Major Hiram Maples first wielded it against the slavers' rebellion, serving with distinction in the US cavalry.  But later, as the cavalry took the lead in the genocidal 'Indian Wars', he became a specialized 'monster hunter', seeking out those with mystical knowledge and paying handsomely to enchant his equipment against the 'monstrous' Accursed desperately defending their people.  She seeks to reclaim it for a better purpose.
*based on silver dagger, but a cavalry saber (scimitar stats)

'''The Quick and the Dead''': When you make mixed actions with Close Combat, you always use the higher pool rather than the lower.

===Contacts===
'''Lilith Desjardins''' - 2 ''mentor, informant (Family)''  Lilith is Lydia's progenitor; while many in House Báthory use 'Mother/Father' they both find that particular sort of closeness awkward.  It's not that they're estranged, their relationship is just too professional.  While her own ventures are above-board (mostly), she gets a lot of useful and interesting gossip from underworld (literally and figuratively) connections.

'''Alec Bartholomew Charles Morganstern-Brown, esq.''' - 1 ''influential (Role)''  Alec was Lydia's mentor at her first firm, the white-shoe Elicott, Chatham & Greene.  While the only way her hiring could have been more nepotism-driven was if she was ''actually'' related to a Partner instead of 'just' a Harvard legacy with a 'quality' background, she did impress him with her argumentation (if not legal scholarship, so much).  They maintain cordial ties, even if he thinks her current employer is a bit bleeding-heart.

'''Dr. Waite''' - 2 ''Archive, Supernatural (Lineage)'' A performatively mysterious and reclusive Ascetic known tongue-in-cheekly as the Hermit of Bell Hill.  If it's not in his library, he probably knows who to ask or kill for it.  Which, ''conveniently'', is also what he tends to ask for in exchange for his help.
===Bonds===
'''Bond''' - 0 ''notes''