18thCenturyMage/Sophie

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: 16XP, 13AXP

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. Her more long-term plan involves her building a new life for herself, from which she can then return to her family without damaging their reputation.
• Liverpool, December 1748: Assuming Andrea's name, Sophie marries Wallon Huguenot Daan Le Clercq and embarks with him on a voyage to America. Daan turns out be more of a liability than expected: drinking hard and hitting harder. Now beginning to Sleepwalk, Sophie is noticed by a Guardian of the Veil, a woman traveling on the same ship who invites her to come for a 'tea and a chat' (without the husband...) if ever she happens to be in New York City. Bemused by the more occult (Labyrinth-ine) hints from the woman but intrigued by the notion of being welcome without the man, Sophie keeps the woman's card.
• New York City, early 1749: Sophie-'Andrea' manages to extricate herself from Daan's company and makes a dash for the real Andrea's old address, where she is hoping to hide out. Alas, the house has burnt down and Andrea is said to have died in the fire! Daan arrives with several other men and drags Sophie-'Andrea' off, away from the town.

XP Log

• 17.1.13 2XP Sanctum

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