UPKingOfThieves

Seraphina Euphemia "King of Thieves" Barinden

Ability-5 Leadership-2 Charisma-3 Intelligence-5
Capabilities: [13]
 Casting 5
 Profession (thief) 5
 Knowledge 2
Connections: [3]
 Patricians 2 (Gracchus)
 Cult 2 (Devourer)
Popularity: [4]
 4 (King of Thieves)
Assets: [20]
Bottomless Bag [10]: More of a sack, really, tied with a cord. A pretty wine color.
 Item (Anything in the Bottomless Bag may be freely transported between the ‘real’ world and) +
 Imaginary World (a demiplane whose size and other traits can be altered at will by the Bag’s owner) +
 [Magma] (using pressure from build-ups in the magma layer in order to power the Runic effects).
Black Box [10]: A featureless black box, the size of a small jewelry box, with no noticeable seam.
 Box (The Black Box is able to take in and contain innumerable non-physical things of value.) + Owner
 (A person which owns the Black Box) + Use (may gain the use of any of the contents of the Box as they
 wish) + [Magma] (using pressure from build-ups in the magma layer in order to power the Runic
 effects).
Bypass knife [*]: A dagger which is carved with Undetectable and Bypass runes, powered by an Ancient.
Rings [*]: A set of rings in the style of a poison ring, but not each with a spell carved into the swivel bevel set in silver, gold or platinum (Bypass, Undetectable (do not meet enemies), Undetectable (damage avoidance) and Steal). The final ring is in fact a true poison ring, containing a store of cyanide, the poison of choice in Rome.
 'Clear the Barricade', 'Lady Luck' and 'Thief Steals the Moon' rings

Runes: [20]
 Ancient [Blocked]
 Bypass (Slip through defenses)
 Undetectable (Avoid enemy)
 Wealth (Thing which has value)
 Steal (To take)
 Thief (One which takes)

Background:
As a capite censi and a woman, Sera was as low-status as it was possible to be without being a slave. And even some favored slaves are treated better than such a person. Rome, the great, shining promise… for men, the great patrician or the modest plebian, perhaps.

Even a strong, intelligent woman had nowhere to go from her humble origins. A noblewoman could become a poet or scholar, at least. Education, that was the key. She learned to read by trading other things of value. One did not need to be a philosopher to understand what lay at the heart of man: money was the currency of the heart.

Then she stole scrolls, and things that could be sold for denarii, to dress as a noblewoman and buy knowledge. The world opened up for her, just a little. But still, she knew her skills would be used on behalf of her father and eventual husband, not herself. It lashed her soul with chains. She craved recognition, respect for herself. But Rome would not provide.

What followed were several years of aimless disobedience, that pit of frustration and anger ruling her. She stole, she drank heavily, she lay with women and men who were not her husband – occasionally all three.

Her favorite was the stealing of one-off masterpieces.

Magna opera that tend to be well-aged, dedicated to the gods of old. Some of them dedicated to beings older still – the Ancients. In time, curiosity about these items led to the discovery of Runes. Magic could make even a woman mighty. She dove into learning magic with all the gusto with which she had sought out knowledge. She fell in with the Cult of the Devourer, her skills perfect for the theft of other cults’ resources. But the Ancients hold a reciprocal interest in such things… These beings spoke to her in dreams, taught her things. Showed her things. She found herself stealing objects with no recollection of why. Objects of magic.

The Undetectable magic taught to shield her from the objects of her thefts worked to occlude her from even the Ancients which rode her, but it could not stop the dreams. Luck came into her possession with a black lacquered box – the Black Box. With the Ancient dreams safely locked within the Box on waking, their haunting whispers dulled to a fragment of their potency.

Spells:
Clear the Barricade : Thief + Bypass + [Wealth]

Shadow on the Moon: Thief + Undetectable (Physical) + [Wealth]
Lady Luck: Thief + Undetectable (Luck/Meeting enemy) + [Wealth]

Thief Steals the Moon: Thief + Steal + Wealth + [Wealth]
Thief Wins the Heart: Thief + Steal + Wealth (Love) + [Wealth]
Thief Takes the Throne: Thief + Steal + Wealth (Reputation) + [Wealth]
Thief Has the Power: Thief + Steal + Wealth (Physical attribute) + [Wealth]

The Devourer:
The Devourer's cult has a following in Rome, for its province is that of the hungry void, and the satiation of that hunger - for wealth, for power, for love and memory and for life itself. All things Rome has in abundance.
Likes: wealth, power, memory, hats, art, summer, kings, smooth, volcanic ash
Dislikes: endlessness, justice, cold, aubergines, spring, idealism, hydraulics, pyroclasm, fuzzy, red