Game

When sir Jacumo Linderly married Lady Leeta of Braavus, he dreamed of six children. Leeta was as impolite as to supply him only with three, last of which was an arrogant, flamboyant, decadent failure named Essardo. Said Essardo was sent by his mother to Braavus in the official excuse of having to watch the family's fortune; truth was that not even his mother could stand his extravagant nature, which was clearly an impending disaster in the starched Westeros nobility. The 16 years old Lord Essardo Linderly then started a new life in his mother's homeland, and stood up to absolutely any outrageous expectation anyone ever had in mind for him, including being slain in a duel over a courtesan's favour when he was 31.

Having lost his wife ten years earlier to some sea-side lung disease, Lord Essardo Linderly left behind three things: a fair amount of scandals, an outstanding amount of money, and one 13 years old daughter.

Lady Adranna Linderly had to take over maintaining both estate and fortune, and, being her father's daughter, failed miserably in doing so. Two years later she managed to have lost over half her possessions; she was neck-deep in unprofitable investments, and manipulated by half the nobility in Braavus. It was the, when she was 15, that Adranna took a week's trip at sea aboard her Silver Viper; upon her return, everything changed.

She hired a rampart of mercenaries, lawyers, septons, tutors and advisers to deflect anyone who was milking her possessions; she had a few enemies discreetly-yet-noisily disposed of, got rid of most of her obnoxious suitors by setting them dueling to death against each other, and tripled, within a year, all the gold she previously lost. She then invested most of the gold in various palaces around the city-state, and then - barring rare occasions - withdrew from the public eye.

About the same time, a new courtesan showed up in the overflown courtesan crowd of Braavus. The Lady Emerald had a fetish for masks and was as cheeky as she was shameless. She made both name, fortune and suitors, and used all three equally lavishly; in short, she was an all-spoken of attraction, rarely connected, if at all, with the book-keeping lady Adranna Linderly.

Five years of bathing in hedonism, politics and fornications came to an abrupt end when The Lady Emerald was foolish enough to have caught the eye of Lord Quando Giommi; as such things go, he proposed marriage, Emerald proposed he jump out the window, and he replied that the choices were either marriage or being the morale-support wench in a particularly distant infantry. Emerald begged a week to prepare for the marriage, during which she discreetly exchanged all her real-estate for jewelery, declared syphilis and fled the country.

The Munchkin trait-sheet of Doom Adranna is highly empathic, very perceptive, a skilled manipulator, singer, dancer and musician; she possesses all the expected courtesan skills, alongside being able to maintain endless hours of smalltalk while making her partner feel clever and fantastic. She's well trained with garotte wire and various subtle ways of putting people to sleep or unconsciousness (the things you do to avoid bad-breathed lovers, eh?), and in doing so quietly enough as to leave the victim still sitting in their chair in the crowded ballroom, only to be discovered hour later by a surprised servant.

Yes, she also has flaws and fears, idiocies and weaknesses, but I already did more writing than I usually would, and besides, a true lady never mentions her faults. She also has some vague plot I'm working on in the background which is all תכך זמם, but since I'm not sure what it is myself, it'll have to wait for now.