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| + | *Born Paris 29.10.1729. Father a high-ranking French diplomat and usually away. Two older sisters. Mother and maternal grandmother, both accomplished and successful salonières, teach her that family is everything and even as a woman you can be and do anything as long as the wrong people don't find out. | ||
| + | *Growing up close friends with Andrea, the two of them constantly in one scrape or another. After Andrea's family emigrates to America in 1742, they keep in touch by post for several years. | ||
| + | *Paris, 20.8.1745. Married to an Italian 'count' for a financially and politically promising alliance... family hopes swiftly turning to ashes as the man is revealed to be a conman and not a genuine aristocrat at all - Roman Papescu, a Romanian noble's bastard son. Potentially destructive public ridicule is nipped in the bud as the family keeps it all under wraps and sends Sophie off with the man. She spends a couple of years touring Europe with her ever inventive husband, learning skills of his trade. | ||
| + | *Vienna, Spring 1748: Sophie leaves Roman after finding he has once again set her up as his 'life insurance' in case he gets caught. Flees across Europe, covering her tracks as best she can in her first own self-sustained con. | ||
| + | *Liverpool, December 1748: | ||
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Revision as of 07:03, 6 February 2013
Shadow Name: Caprice
Real Name: Sophie Bernadette de La Vallière (aka Andrea, aka Hélène d'Arcy)
Age: 19
Concept:
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Lust (as pleasure in beautiful things)
Path/Order: Mastigos/Guardian
Experience unspent: 13XP, 11AXP
Attributes
Int:●● Str:● Pre:●
Wits:●●● Dex:●●● Man:●●●
Res:●●● Sta:●●● Com:●●●
Skills
Mental: Academics●● Politics●●
Physical: Larceny●●●(Forgery,Locks) Stealth●●● Weaponry●●(Knives)
Social: Empathy●●● Persuasion●● Socialise●● Subterfuge●●●
Merits
English(French)(●)
High Speech(free)(●)
Fighting Finesse[Knives](●●)
Mentor[Isengrim](●)
Contacts[French,High Society](●●)
Status[Guardians](●)
Sanctum(●)
Arcana
Mind●●●
Space●●
Prime●
Gnosis: ●
Mana:
Rotes (WIP)
Mind●●● 8d Mask of Conformity (Imposter, p.211:INT+Subt+Mind vs COM+Gno)
Mind●●● 9d Psychic Communion (Telepathy, p.212:WITS+Emp+Mind vs RES+Gno)
Protective Spells:
Advantages
Willpower: 5
Wisdom: 7
Health: 8
Initiative: 6
Perception: 6
Defence: 3
Speed: 9
Nimbus:
A scatter of shards of light, as of a mirror shattering. If flaring, mixed with the above a crunch of broken glass, a spatter of red like blood, a death rattle.
Flaw:
- That Wedded Thorn In My Side
Notable Equipment
Magical tool: fan
Knives
Hairpin-knife
Lockpicks
Biography
- Born Paris 29.10.1729. Father a high-ranking French diplomat and usually away. Two older sisters. Mother and maternal grandmother, both accomplished and successful salonières, teach her that family is everything and even as a woman you can be and do anything as long as the wrong people don't find out.
- Growing up close friends with Andrea, the two of them constantly in one scrape or another. After Andrea's family emigrates to America in 1742, they keep in touch by post for several years.
- Paris, 20.8.1745. Married to an Italian 'count' for a financially and politically promising alliance... family hopes swiftly turning to ashes as the man is revealed to be a conman and not a genuine aristocrat at all - Roman Papescu, a Romanian noble's bastard son. Potentially destructive public ridicule is nipped in the bud as the family keeps it all under wraps and sends Sophie off with the man. She spends a couple of years touring Europe with her ever inventive husband, learning skills of his trade.
- Vienna, Spring 1748: Sophie leaves Roman after finding he has once again set her up as his 'life insurance' in case he gets caught. Flees across Europe, covering her tracks as best she can in her first own self-sustained con.
- Liverpool, December 1748:
XP Log
- 17.1.13 2XP Sanctum
