Post by hubertbartels on Aug 22, 2022 16:47:43 GMT -5
Rissa
Rissa is a young thief, around 16 years old. She has the classic Suel features – pale blonde hair, fair complexion, clear blue eyes and the long Suel face. Rissa is fairly small for her age with a slender build and a slightly hungry look in her eyes.
At the moment, she is wearing a dirty leather coat over a slightly less dirty dress. Around her waist are two daggers and a hand crossbow. In two pouches hanging from her belt are thieves’ tools, a collection of miss-matched cross bow bolts and a few odd coins.
Rissa had not been in Saltmarsh long. She arrived in town in a smuggler’s coaster from Gradsul, helping oversee a cargo of stolen goods and illegal drugs. Upon making port in Saltmarsh, she quickly jumped ship to explore this new place. She had never been outside of Gradsul before.
Rissa returned to the coaster to find it had been boarded by the King’s men and everyone on board had been seized. From the crates and bundles on the deck of the coaster, their smuggling had been discovered. She quickly fled the quay.
Rissa had been orphaned at a very young age and was found in the streets of Gradsul by a old Rhennee man. He raised Rissa in a nest of beggars and thieves. She learned how to open locks and pick pockets, how to beguile a mark and trick him into revealing his secrets. From the Rhennee boatmen, she learned how to hide smuggled goods and where to take them. Her trip to Saltmarsh would have been the first time she been away from the old warehouse where the old Rhennee man taught his young rogues.
It is now two weeks later. Rissa is down to her last coins. She had been spending her time at the Empty Net, a tavern built on silts over the bay. Her hopes to find some easy money have been dashed – none of the local thieves would give her the time of day and the local guardsmen were vigilant and proactive. Even if she did burglarize the fancy houses at the edge of town, she had been unable to find a fence to pawn the stolen goods on.