<ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>Nice background Curvy!<br/><br/>Would've been a hell of a contrast (hah) with my own Tiefling's approach...Subtle rogue concealing all of her marks vs. a warrior-type on brazen and brutal display with an attitude of 'You're damned right I'm hellspawn, do you have a <em>problem</em> with that?'<br/>I'll have my own up background up later today or tonight. Have some stuff to take care of. <br/><br/></li><li>Katataban? Thanks for the quick response on the points/traits! I'd also asked about swapping the Thayan planestouched regional equipment freebie of a MW Breastplate for MW Studded Leather instead. Would that be alright?<br/><br/></li><li>As Tydorei suggested, it'd probably be good if we had some idea of how the team ICly knows each other. My girl is an escaped slave from Thay, and Thay is about as far from the Sword Coast and Waterdeep as Kabul, Afghanistan is from London...Around 3,400 miles. People and trade routes certainly went that far even in medieval times (check the Silk Road out some time! It's even longer!). Herodotus (in 475BC) mentions messengers on the Persian Royal Road (which stretched 1775 miles, about half the distance from Thay to Waterdeep) making the journey in nine days pony-express style, going from outpost to outpost and picking up a fresh horse at each one. Normal travel was more like three months for the same distance. (Yes, I am a terrible history geek!)So I figure she's spent between half a year and a year getting to Waterdeep. She still has to be a little bit careful though, there IS a large Thayan trade embassy in Waterdeep. She's a big, strong girl with an attitude. I figure she's made some coin by acting as a thug/enforcer type (sure, she could be paid to be a guard, she probably worked off part of her journey that way, but she's a tiefling!) and when that didn't work out she probably did general dock labor as a stevedore/longshoreman on account of being able to lift, move, and shove heavy objects all the damn day long.<br/><br/>That's open to adaptation of course, but I figure she's probably a pretty hard drinker, which makes the tavern route easy, and everybody probably has an excuse to go through the docks sooner or later...Or if worst comes to worst, they might know her from her other profession, either as another enforcer for some Waterdeep loanshark, or as a 'client'. ;)<br/><br/>She's lawful neutral, leaning slightly towards neutral good by the by. She's mildly conflicted by the work she's done and how it relates to her own unwilling past. That spark of conscience blazes up sometimes when it comes to forcible oppression, but by and large she sees the world (and a "proper" society) as having a system of rules with consequences when they're broken. You step off a cliff, you're going to get hurt. You mess around too much with the local codes/rules/law, same thing will happen. And that's as it should be.</li></ul>