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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 5817070" data-attributes="member: 360"><p><strong>Gwenn Arellic, human rogue(thief) 12</strong></p><p></p><p>Gwenn had spent quite a lot of time trying to decide what to do when the King's request came out. Even knowing what the giants had done to Sevaria, it could still be a trap. That damn Alleric sense of duty would not have let her leave this alone. The only question was who to appear as.</p><p> </p><p>It would take quite an effort with her hair and makeup to pass for anything but an Alleric to anyone who knew the family well. Or even anyone who paid attention -- a portrait of her great-aunt, sword in hand, hung along the path to the Baron's audience chamber and save for a few decades' changes in fashion the woman in that picture could have been her rather than her grandfather's sister. Even after what they had done to her father, no one tried to pretend Kayla Alleric had not been a hero of the Realm, nor that she had been very close to the Baron's grandfather.</p><p> </p><p>And hiding the accent and speech of someone raised a noble was something she was skilled in doing for a few minutes or hours, not days or weeks. So best not to deny Alleric blood or being raised as a noble if asked directly. Mari Kastelic, then. The real Mari Kastelic had been her uncle's illegimate daughter by the just-barely-noble daughter of one of their neighbors, and about the right age. And was officially missing, not dead.</p><p> </p><p>[sblock=backstory]Mari, though, was quite dead. She had insisted on playing the part of Gwenn to draw off the chase while they were on the run from the collapse of her father's army. At the time Gwenn had not been in a position to insist that she did not. And while Mari, like any daughter or son of house Alleric, knew how to handle a blade, she was not her cousin's equal even then.[/sblock]</p><p> </p><p>She bathed, and dressed as a minor noble raised in the northern martial tradition -- which, after all, she was, save for the 'minor' part. A fine green cloak over her black drowmesh armor, blade and dagger on her belt. Still, she hesitated before putting on her rapier.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone attempting this fools' errand would have a highly enchanted weapon, but hers, upon close examination, would be known to be Gwenn Alleric's blade. There was nothing for it, though; she did not have another suitable blade, the funds to buy one near its equal, or the slightest inclination to trade her last gift from her father for something less distinctive. And having Gwenn Alleric's blade in her room was scarecly less incriminating than having it on her person. Besides, few people knew their swords well enough to recognize hers, and even those that did would need to look closely.</p><p> </p><p><em>Besides, if they were going to arrest me, they should have tried when I first arrived.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 5817070, member: 360"] [b]Gwenn Arellic, human rogue(thief) 12[/b] Gwenn had spent quite a lot of time trying to decide what to do when the King's request came out. Even knowing what the giants had done to Sevaria, it could still be a trap. That damn Alleric sense of duty would not have let her leave this alone. The only question was who to appear as. It would take quite an effort with her hair and makeup to pass for anything but an Alleric to anyone who knew the family well. Or even anyone who paid attention -- a portrait of her great-aunt, sword in hand, hung along the path to the Baron's audience chamber and save for a few decades' changes in fashion the woman in that picture could have been her rather than her grandfather's sister. Even after what they had done to her father, no one tried to pretend Kayla Alleric had not been a hero of the Realm, nor that she had been very close to the Baron's grandfather. And hiding the accent and speech of someone raised a noble was something she was skilled in doing for a few minutes or hours, not days or weeks. So best not to deny Alleric blood or being raised as a noble if asked directly. Mari Kastelic, then. The real Mari Kastelic had been her uncle's illegimate daughter by the just-barely-noble daughter of one of their neighbors, and about the right age. And was officially missing, not dead. [sblock=backstory]Mari, though, was quite dead. She had insisted on playing the part of Gwenn to draw off the chase while they were on the run from the collapse of her father's army. At the time Gwenn had not been in a position to insist that she did not. And while Mari, like any daughter or son of house Alleric, knew how to handle a blade, she was not her cousin's equal even then.[/sblock] She bathed, and dressed as a minor noble raised in the northern martial tradition -- which, after all, she was, save for the 'minor' part. A fine green cloak over her black drowmesh armor, blade and dagger on her belt. Still, she hesitated before putting on her rapier. Anyone attempting this fools' errand would have a highly enchanted weapon, but hers, upon close examination, would be known to be Gwenn Alleric's blade. There was nothing for it, though; she did not have another suitable blade, the funds to buy one near its equal, or the slightest inclination to trade her last gift from her father for something less distinctive. And having Gwenn Alleric's blade in her room was scarecly less incriminating than having it on her person. Besides, few people knew their swords well enough to recognize hers, and even those that did would need to look closely. [I]Besides, if they were going to arrest me, they should have tried when I first arrived.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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