Trianna, Psion, Dark Sun, Homebrew

[Hiroma Moliuvia]

Trianna de Zaphrias, young heiress of the Zaphrias "mercantile" estates in Tyr, is the daughter of Marcus de Zaphrias, "Master Merchant." Behind the veil of the public eye, Marcus is a moneylender, and a damn good one, at that. He has the money to offer virtually any amount of coin, but if you don't pay on time, you must pay a hefty percentage in interest. Marcus preys on the weak, stupid, helpless, and hapless, and drains their pockets of everything, even their lint. Once, when Trianna was ten, she asked to borrow just a little money, that she could pay for a new doll at the market, and he agreed, telling her she had 1 week to earn it back. 3 weeks later, she owed her father over 300gp, which he worked out of her for several years.

Due to this treatment, and his behavior, Trianna has no particular love for her parents, or people in general. The only benefit of her noble upbringing is that she was able to obtain a proper education in how to use her psionic abilities. Eventually, when she turned 20, she stole money from her father's coffers, and called upon a man she knew of from his dealings with her father, Hargan the Umbra-Blade. She gave Hargan the money, and asked him to kill her father and help her out of the house. He turned down the money, saying to her "You have potential. But, I will not take your pilfered money for your father's life. Give that money back to it's owner, and that owner will soon die, that you may be free."

So Trianna did just that. She walked directly into her father's meeting room, Hargan at her side, and handed her father the money she had stolen, and said "This money has the blood of countless people on it. And now it will have yours." And as she said that, Hargan mysteriously appeared behind her father, with a bone-bladed longsword in hand, and drove it through the startled man's throat and spine.

From that day on, Trianna walked out of her father's house, and made her own living, doing what she could with her psionic abilities to make coin legitimately.

[Madrius]

You mention that Zaphrias is a "mercantile" estate. Are the quotations to imply that they are not necessarily recognized as a true merchant house within Tyr? I get a kind of "Payday Cash Loans" kind of feel thinking about it.

Anyway. I'm asking because I want to have an idea of how people (Templars, locals, other merchant houses) would react to the death of Marcus.

[Hiroma Moliuvia]

Well, Trianna's mother is still alive, but Trianna is the rightful inheritor of the estate. As well, it is LEGALLY accepted as a Mercantile Estate, but his business is in funding businesses and the like, not in selling product. He's a loan-shark.

[Madrius]

so was this event very recent? has Trianna been acknowledged by her mother and others as in control of the estate, and she is just ignoring it? What is her mother's reaction to the murder?

If someone with as much a standing in Tyr as Marcus had, there would have been an investigation from the Templars into the means of his death. The Templars have a reputation of doing what they want to do, however. Unless her mother bribed them with a good sum of cash, they would have not spent much time looking if there weren't any obvious clues. Some encouragement of ceramic (which is used in place of gold pieces) could have made them look into it more.

Once some if this is clarified I'll get started with you playing both characters up to a certain point and once we get more players we will continue on

[Hiroma Moliuvia]

The event was about a year ago, and as the official inheritor of the state, Trianna used funds from what was then her personal coffers to bribe the guards into finding "insufficient evidence of foul play," because a blade through the neck isn't foul at all, when there is enough ceramic involved. After that, is when she decided to leave all the funds to her mother, who was a noblewoman of another family. Marcus had funded her family's opening business venture, in exchange for their eldest daughter, Trianna's mother. Obviously, her mother harbors strong resentment toward both Marcus and her own family. She is fond of her daughter, but was unwilling to speak against Marcus, as she had no proof of his abusive, slimy nature. Because of this, Trianna does not BLAME her mother, but nor does she harbor much love for her.

[Madrius]

great! I will be ready to go soon.

Just a few more questions.

Are the two together often? do they have a favorite hangout (the arena, a particular tavern - of which I can tell you a few that exist, one of the markets, or perhaps the artisan district Sulptors' Square?)

[Hiroma Moliuvia]

They prefer to frequent taverns. However, they do not stay at any one inn two days in a row. Illicit activities encourage precautions. I'm going to modify Trianna slightly. I am going to change some powers. Stats and backstory are the same. She will be a telepathic psion. She aids in information gathering activities, while Hargan performs most of the grisly work.

[Madrius]

perfect! I'll post something in the new thread I created for them, and you can start whenever you are ready. I'm going to start them out in a tavern called The Red Kank which is in the elven market district.

[Hiroma Moliuvia]

I'm eager to start. As well, until we get more players, I will be incorporating an NPC in the Neverwinter campaign. I should have the starting post up within the next 2 days, depending on my schedule.