Post by hubertbartels on Nov 20, 2017 14:18:53 GMT -5
Fanny Locke is the daughter of a merchant and ship's broker living in Waterdeep. Her father enjoyed modest success and married the younger daughter from the small nobility. Her family had been sending ships up and down the Sword Coast for generations.
Fanny grew up wanting more than the comfortable life of a merchant's house. She sought to move into the upper echelons of nobility like her father's customers. When she learned that she had inherited sorcerous powers from her great-grandmother's dalliance with a Gold Dragon, she applied that to her schemes as well.
At seventeen, she left her family's small townhouse and set herself up at one of the high-class inns in Waterdeep's Sea Ward. By careful use of her skills and clever forgeries, she became Lady Rookswood, a young noblewoman from large estates near Daggerford. She has been playing this role since, trying to land a young and dumb nobleman's fortune.
A bad run-in with one nobleman's attorneys wanting to know more about her supposed fortune has left Fanny with the feeling that it might be a good time for a vacation - at least until the furor and scandal has died down.
In short, Fanny is a Dragonic sorcerer with a Charlatan background - her schemes are to insinuate herself into the lives of young men and acquire their money. Her Feature is her alternative identities - Lady Rookswood, for example - that she has carefully constructed with forgeries and deception. Her personality is somewhat flighty - she will lie about most everything if she can. Her Ideal - she is a free spirit without anyone telling her what to do! Her Flaw is her free-spending ways - she spends the baubles and money she gets from her scam as quickly as she gets it.
[Fanny is based somewhat on Harriette Wilson's Memoirs - an account of a courtesan in the early 1800's.]
Fanny grew up wanting more than the comfortable life of a merchant's house. She sought to move into the upper echelons of nobility like her father's customers. When she learned that she had inherited sorcerous powers from her great-grandmother's dalliance with a Gold Dragon, she applied that to her schemes as well.
At seventeen, she left her family's small townhouse and set herself up at one of the high-class inns in Waterdeep's Sea Ward. By careful use of her skills and clever forgeries, she became Lady Rookswood, a young noblewoman from large estates near Daggerford. She has been playing this role since, trying to land a young and dumb nobleman's fortune.
A bad run-in with one nobleman's attorneys wanting to know more about her supposed fortune has left Fanny with the feeling that it might be a good time for a vacation - at least until the furor and scandal has died down.
In short, Fanny is a Dragonic sorcerer with a Charlatan background - her schemes are to insinuate herself into the lives of young men and acquire their money. Her Feature is her alternative identities - Lady Rookswood, for example - that she has carefully constructed with forgeries and deception. Her personality is somewhat flighty - she will lie about most everything if she can. Her Ideal - she is a free spirit without anyone telling her what to do! Her Flaw is her free-spending ways - she spends the baubles and money she gets from her scam as quickly as she gets it.
[Fanny is based somewhat on Harriette Wilson's Memoirs - an account of a courtesan in the early 1800's.]