ADRASTIA VELA, rogue

[attr="class","qty"]" you took too much of my loneliness to need you
i've got no pity for you "

[attr="class","bxy"][attr="class","bb"]

father spills diamonds into her hands when she is barely born. he sets bangles made of gold upon her wrists and he gives her rich, silken clothes to wear. he holds her close as he counts his money. he gives her coins to hold and she grips them in tiny fists. he teaches her to count before she can speak.

one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, a hundred.

he tells her wine is worth more than the cheap bottles it comes in. he tells her this silken robe is more expensive than anything she could dream of. he tells her that everything comes at a price.

father drops her to the floor. he tells her to count money. he tells her that she is priceless, but priceless things are worthless. if you can't sell it, it's of no use.

she knows how a market works before children know their alphabet. she knows how to buy and sell before children know how to read a book. father teaches her everything. he gives her coins to count, gives her jewels to appraise, gives her everything she wants, and reminds her everything comes at a price.

you're priceless, but you're worth nothing. everything can be bought, he tells her.

can a mother be bought, she asks once, before mother's grave. father decorates it in jewels. it is the only worthless thing he has made precious. he tells her yes. and he marries a woman who is pretty and delicate and doe eyed and adrastia thinks to herself:

i can sell you.

you are worth so little and i can sell you.

this is how she grows up. she evaluates her friends on their worth. everything has a price. nothing is free. she has no friends. she has assets. she is five years old, ten years old, and everything is nothing but material goods to her.

father dies when she is twenty three. she knows how to run a business. she is adrastia vela. she is worth too much for anyone. she is a delicate antiva woman, with ruby lips and onyx hair. but she can be bought and her life is money and nothing else. she is twenty three and she takes over the vela trade.

father has made trading his life. he is a merchant and he has too much money.

now this is adrastia's. she knows how to wield a bow almost as well as she can buy jewels and silk. she is the head of an elite family and she is worthless in her own mind.

everything can be bought and sold.

everything has a price.

Adrastia rarely goes into combat, but her skill with a bow is almost as good as her skill with words. She has learned how to defend herself out of necessity, for the rich Vela's are an enemy to many. Father has made sure that she can wield dagger and sword, but Andrastia prefers the back lines. A bow is her best friend.



LIST OF TALENTS: below the belt, pinning shot, accuracy, arrow time

LIST OF SKILLS: improved coercion, improved combat training

SPECIALIZATION: n/a.