LEONARA (Alias)
Class & Level: Rogue 1
Background: Noble
Player: Eric Swanson
CHARACTER DETAILS
Name: Leonara (alias)
Alignment: LN
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 127
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blonde
Skin: Fair
XP: [milestone]
Passive Perception: 10
Passive Insight: 10
Passive Investigation: 10
CORE STATS
Ability Score Mod
Strength 10 +0
Dexterity 16 +3
Constitution 16 +3
Intelligence 11 +0
Wisdom 10 +0
Charisma 14 +2
Perception 12 +1
Sanity 11 +0
Proficiency Bonus: +2
Initiative: +3
Speed: 30’
DEFENSE
Armor Class: 13/14/15
Res.: SL 2__ Lthr 1__
Hit Points: 11 _________
Hit Dice: 1d8
Death Saves:
☐ ☐ ☐ (Success)
☐ ☐ ☐ (Fail)
SAVING THROW
Strength +0
Dexterity +5 ✔
Constitution +3
Intelligence +2 ✔
Wisdom +0
Charisma +2
SKILLS
Acrobatics +5 ✔
Animal Handling +0
Arcana +0
Athletics +0
Deception +2
History +2 ✔
Insight +0
Intimidation +2
Investigation +0
Medicine +0
Nature +0
Perception +2 ✔
Performance +2
Persuasion +4 ✔
Religion +0
Sleight of Hand +7 ✔✔
Stealth +7 ✔✔
Survival +0
ATTACKS & WEAPONS
Shortsword +5 TH, pierce, 1d6 + 3 (6/9/15, sa 9/15/21)
Dagger +3oh/+5 TH, pierce, throw-20/60 1d4 +3 (5/7/11, sa 8/13/17)
Shortbow +5 TH, pierce, r80/320 1d6 + 3 (6/9/15, sa 9/15/21)
ACTIONS
Attack
Dash
Disengage
Dodge
Help
Hide
Ready
Search
Bonus Actions
Two-Weapon Fighting (off-hand dagger)
Reaction
Opportunity Attack
FEATURES & TRAITS
Sneak Attack 1d6 (3/6)
(Once per turn
Requires advantage OR ally within 5 ft of target)
Thieves’ Cant, Elvish, Common, Draconic
PROFICIENCIES
Light Armor
Simple Weapons
Hand Crossbows, Longswords, Rapiers, Shortswords
Thieves’ Tools
EQUIPMENT
Shortsword
Dagger
Longbow + 20 arrows
Leather armor
Studded leather armor
Thieves’ Tools
Traveling clothes
Common (city) clothes
Traveling (heavy) boots
City (thief, low soft) boots
Holy symbol of Aerna
Black cloak
Brimmed hat
Riding Horse (quality; 20 Health/hp) & full tack/harness
saddle bags, travois, basic saddle (+1 Ride checks) & stirrups (+1 Ride checks)
Standard backpack kit of bedroll, mess kit, rations (5d), torches, waterskin, tinderbox, torches (5), 50’ rope, camping tarp
Blank sheets, ink, quill
Needs: Thief’s clothes,
CURRENCY
PERSONALITY
Traits: Controlled, observant, quietly resolute
Ideals: Justice tempered by restraint
Bonds: Lost child; Future restoration of rightful place; relatively devout follower of Aerna
Flaws: Buried bitterness toward her family
NOTES / BACKSTORY (SHORT FORM)
Former noble cast out after scandal. Survived confinement, escaped through skill and patience. Now operates under an assumed name, building influence and power through subtle means with long-term designs on replacing her family’s house.
BACKSTORY
I was born to a house of standing, though never to its future. My brothers—favored sons, each of them—were bred for legacy and dominion, while I was raised for ornament, alliance, and silence. It was understood that my worth would be measured in the grace of my conduct and the advantage of my marriage, and little more. I was trained in languages and letters, riding and hunting, but only as qualities befitting a noble wife – not to wield for myself.
In time, I came to love where I was not permitted. He was a craftsman — skilled, patient, and possessed of a quiet dignity that no courtly title could improve. When I conceived his child, my father’s wrath fell swift and merciless. I was sent away under cover of discretion to a house of correction, a place where inconvenient daughters are hidden until their disgrace may be buried with them.
My family did not rest with exile alone. To make plain the cost of defiance, they seized the child’s father. What was done to him… I learned only in fragments, but enough to know that cruelty, once unbound, knows no restraint. They inflicted that vile cruelty that can only be done to a man, then his life was taken, and his body cast out to be taken by wild animals and forgotten. I have long since abandoned any hope of justice for him soon in this world.
When my child was born it was taken from me without ceremony or word. I was not told where, nor to whom. I have ceased to search — not for lack of care, but because the path was closed to me utterly, and I would not let my spirit break itself against an unyielding wall.
In that place of confinement, I learned other lessons. Locks yield to patience and clever hands; shadows are allies to those who move with care; walls may be climbed, and watchful eyes evaded. I mapped the halls in silence, gathered what little I could, and in time, I departed as quietly as I had endured.
The name I bear now — Leonara — is not the one given to me at birth. It is borrowed from a woman of history whose courage I revere, and whose memory I honor in what small way I can. My true name I leave behind, along with the chains it carried.
I do not walk the world in bitterness. There is sorrow in me, yes, and it visits when it will — but I have seen too clearly that the world is already heavy with suffering. I will not add to it needlessly. Yet neither will I turn aside from injustice when it stands before me, especially where it falls upon those who are dismissed, overlooked, or rendered voiceless.
I travel with others now, for the road is perilous to any who walk it alone — more so for a woman without protection or station. In return, I offer what skills I possess: a deft hand, a watchful eye, and a tongue trained in both courtly speech and quieter persuasion. Steel, when needed, finds its mark swiftly in my grasp — blade or bow alike. I was taught the hunting bow in my youth, as befits my station, and I confess I still take a certain grim satisfaction in its use.
If I seek anything now, it is not restoration, nor vengeance, but a measure of purpose freely chosen. And perhaps, in time, to leave some small corner of this world gentler than I found it. Perhaps some nights I lie awake and think of taking back my legacy and casting out – or worse – the men of my family. Maybe I could make “that small corner of this world” a better place. But I am not ready for those thoughts…. yet.
The Long Game….
I do not delude myself with dreams of swift redress. What was taken from me cannot be reclaimed by blade or bold gesture, but only by patience, by the slow turning of wheels that grind finer than steel. I am, for now, no more than what the world believes me to be — a woman without name or standing — and I shall use that obscurity as my shield while I ascend by quieter means.
I will place myself in the paths of those whose words shape law and favor, and there, by wit, by courtesy, and by a reputation carefully tended, I will earn trust where my father has squandered it. In time, I will learn which houses stand above mine in truth as well as title, and among them I will find one not merely powerful, but just — one worthy to supplant the cruelty that presently holds dominion. Their rise shall not appear my doing; my hand will be unseen, my counsel taken for prudence, my influence mistaken for coincidence. When the moment comes, my family will fall not by accusation, but by the weight of their own failings, revealed and judged by those whose authority they cannot defy.
Then, when a better house is raised in their place, I shall bind myself to it not as a supplicant, but as a partner — marrying into its line and, in time, securing my place within it beyond dispute. Only when that foundation is unassailable — when I have borne an heir, and my position cannot be undone by whisper or will — shall I cast aside the name I wear and reclaim the one they sought to bury. Let them then see what became of the daughter they discarded: not a shame to be hidden, but the architect of their undoing, and the instrument by which something finer was set in their stead.
The 3 Pillars:
I hold to three principles, by which all designs may be advanced without haste and without waste. They are not to be pursued in isolation, but in quiet concert, each lending strength to the others until the whole becomes inevitable.
First: Personal Power
I will gather what cannot be easily taken from me — means, skill, and knowledge. Coin is useful, but understanding is sovereign. I will learn what others value, what they conceal, and what they fear. I will cultivate my abilities until no door is closed to me for lack of competence, and no opportunity is lost for want of preparation. What I build within myself shall be the foundation upon which all else rests.
Second: Influence
Power declared is often resisted; power invited is seldom refused. I will make myself agreeable where it matters, and indispensable where it counts. Those who govern must find in me a presence of utility, discretion, and reliability. I will not demand their favor — I will earn it, shape it, and in time, depend upon it. When decisions are made, my voice need not be loud, only present.
Third: Erosion.
No house falls at a touch; it weakens first. I will not strike at my family directly, but diminish them by degrees — through doubt, through contradiction, through the quiet revelation of their own unfitness. Let others come to question them of their own accord. Let confidence fray, alliances loosen, and reputations sour without clear cause. When they fall, it shall seem not an act of design, but the natural consequence of what they have always been.
Thus shall the work proceed: I will rise, I will be trusted, and they will be diminished. And when the moment comes, nothing will appear forced, and nothing will be undone.
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