Emerande

Emerande is a vampire of Vladimir's lineage.   She was turned into a vampire for little reason other than her great beauty. In life she was a vapid air head using her beauty to get everything she wanted, but becoming an undead predatory changed her. She took her development of pratical skills very seriously hence forth.   One night, she and her sire were attacked by a pair of Lorshellis' lineage, and she barely escaped. At which point she began obsessively drilling her combat skills.   Besides tons of exercises, she would sometimes pretend to be a helpless maiden lost on a road as a lure for brigands just to use the brigands for combat practice.   She realized that, no matter how formidable she is in battle, she is still one vampire. The best defense is not being seen.   She hid in the Border Baronies for a while and in between honing her combat skills she started working on her social skills. Vladimir's lineage of vampires can only use their mind powers on the weak willed and it usually only works for a short period of time, but Emerande found she could seduce thralls and gradually break them over time in order to compel long term obedience.   She used her thralls to set up a puppet government in one of the Border Baronies. Eventually her thralls outlived their usefulness, so she had to cut them loose and set up a new puppet government. Roughly a score of coups later, her puppet state is now called Prophet's Pass.   Like most undead of advanced age, she is rife with mental illness. In her case moderate obsessive compulsive perfectionism and extreme paranoia.   Her obssessive drilling of combat and mental skills has certainly paid dividends, but she has neglected her animal powers. Her ability to summon beasts or transform is weaker than most other vampires of her lineage.   In the RPG campaing I'm running, during Kormatin Solo Session 6-28-22 used an oracle plus detective work to find out that there was a vampire hiding Prophet's Pass.   During Kormatin Solo Session 7-12-22, Kormatin and company found her lair, cornered her and slew her.   As far as they could tell, Emerande had ten thralls   Kostya the simpleton who disposed of bodies. Left alone.   The owner of the brewhouse she laired under. Given amnesty for cooperation.     The mercant on the ruling council of Prophet's Pass. Arrested by the local military   Two other merchants. Arrested by the local military     the elder man on the ruling council of Prophet's Pass. Arrested by the local military   Four men, three on duty one on break to guard her during the day. Locked up in Emerande's own dungeon under guard of Kormatin's company.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

She is a hundred pound petite and femine woman appearing to be in her late teens.   She has seen several centuries go by and she has physical strength on par with greatest human warriors of legend and resilience beyond human limits.
Emerande   Willpower 6   Dexterity 5, Strength 5, Stamina 5, Appearance 5, Charisma 3, Manipulation 5, Intelligence 3, Perception 3, Wits 3   Abilities: Alertness 5 (+1 paranoia), Animal Ken 2, Archery 5, Athletics 3 (+1 running), Brawl 5 (+1 grapples), Dodge 5, Empathy 5 (+1 sizing up), Enigmas 2, Etiquette 2 (+1 flirting), Hearth Wisdom 5, History 3 (+1 Border Baronies), Intimidation 3 (+1 conditioning), Investigation 1, Leadership 2 (+1 thralls), Melee 5 (+1 parries), Performance 2 (+1 helpless damsel), Politics 2 (+1 Border Baronies), Stealth 3, Subterfuge 3 (+1 elaborate schemes), Theology 1 (+1 vampire hunters) Rare Abilities: Lip Reading 2   Flaws: Animal Powers at +2 difficulty
Alignment
Neutral Evil
Species
Conditions
Age
19
Year of Death
1835 CE
Circumstances of Death
struck down by Tihalt
Place of Death
Prophet's Pass
Children

Accumulated Wealth

  175 platinum pieces   1489 gold pieces   1898 silver pieces   408 copper pieces   234 drams of haber crystals (234 gp)   159 drams of basic reagents (159 gp)   10 pounds of gold (500 gp)   55 pounds of silver (275 gp or 2750 sp)   Assorted semi precious stones worth 850 gold together   Emerald earings worth about 100 gold.   Ruby necklace with gold setting worth about 800 gold   52 pounds of beeswax (a pound is worth about 45 sp for 234 gold total)   Large supply of top shelf wines and spirits (about 100 gold)   Assorted Spices (196 gold)   Assorted perfumes (84 gold)   Assorted noblewoman's garments {350 gold)   Assorted fine silver items (cups, spoons, belt buckles, jewelry, candelabras, etc) 500 gold   Assorted small gold trinkets (rings, earings, etc) 100 gold  

Art

  20 fancy tapestries, (300 gold)   Assorted commoner made artistic wood carvings (250 gold)   Assorted artwork depicting Emerander. She went full Toreador and forced artists to glorify her. Woodcutting (on silverwood), marble bust, painting, and assorted drawings of Emerande, plus an illuminated manuscript of her biography. There are assorted samples of their none Emerande work including the art below   Elaborate wood carving on Silverwood depicting dwarves routing orcs. ????? gold   Assorted wood cutting portraits on regular wood of famous Kantoca nobles. ???? gold   6 painting set commorating key moments in the Divine Rebellion, artist went for very human-looking version of the Nine ???? gold   Illuminated manuscript of major events in Swynfaredian history ~400 gold from Brigid's understanding of something similar   Books of assorted high quality drawings and sketches. ???? gold   three pro-Lantern paintings ????? gold    

Miscellaneous Stuff

  Lots of quality writing supplies worth about 200 gold   Many Journals of her long machinations 0 gold or priceless   Two weeks worth of rations for her minions.   Tents, bedrolls, daily clothes, rope, torches, lanterns and other assorted practical gear ~400 gold   5 manacles  

Weapons

  Banded Silverwood club (100 gold)   Silverwood   sovereign silver spear with a silverwood shaft. (800 gold, 500 gold piece point on a 300 gold stick).   (+1 damage over regular spear, 3 dice of bonus damage against undead and Void Demons).   -3 dice of damage against incoporeal target but it still hits incorporeal. (Against incoporeals it is a sharp stick, not a spear).     Dagger with electrum hilt addorned with semiprecious stones (150 gold)       Assorted personal mementos taken from memorable foes, mostly holy symbols actually. She has at least one from all nine. Including noble crests, pictures of family, and stuff a sadist would keep. ~50 gold, some of the mementos were minor pieces of jewelry.   Daggers: 12 (24 gp)   Short Swords: 3 (30 gp)   Arming Swords: 6 (90 gp)   Rapiers: 3 (60 gp)   Scimitar: 1 (20 gp)   Long Sword: 1 (50 gp)   Great Sword: 2 (110 gp)   Hand Crossbow: 2 (100 gp)   Light Crossbow: 7 (245 gp)   Heavy Crossbow: 2 (100 gp)   494 crossbow bolts 565 arrows   War bow (for Strength 5): (300 gp)   War bow (for Stregnth 3): (100 gp)   Hand Axe: 6 (36 gp)   Battle Axe: 10 (100 gp)   Great Axe: 2 (40 gp)   Spears: 7 (14 gp)   Pike: 1 (5 gp)   Halberd: 4 (20 gp)   Glaive: 4 (32 gp)   Morningstars: 9 (90 gp)   Military Pick: 5 (40 gp)   Warhammers: 9 (108 gp)   Great Hammer: 3 (60 gp)   21 medium shields: One shield for every banner the Barony has had under her barony two or three extra for Prophet's pass and a few blank shields.   5 buckler shields   1 suit of full plate (fitted for Emerande)   4 sets of medium armor (2 fitted for Emerande, 2 for average men)   9 sets of light armor (4 fitting for Emerande, 5 one size fits most)   Several pounds of weapon worthy steel scraps (50 gold)


Cover image: by Me with Hero Forge
Character Portrait image: by Me with Nightjourney

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