<div class="floatleft">(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/068/9/1/clarisse_by_bilopsis-d5xgb49.jpg)</div><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Aelys Wimpenny (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=159096)</span></strong><br/><strong>Class</strong>: Occultist 1<br/><strong>Race</strong>: Half-Elf<br/><strong>Campaign Trait</strong>: On the Payroll<br/><hr/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Aelys is curious to a fault, always on the hunt for new information and not afraid to explore even the darkest, or dankest, of places to find it.  She is pleasant enough company, if one can bear up against the inevitable onslaught of questions, and quite graciously accepts other people's personal boundaries.  Still, her desire to understand everything makes her somewhat tedious at times, leading her to probe at her companions until they either grow exasperated and tell her to stop, or they exhaust their life histories.  She is constantly fighting the urge to search through things that don't belong to her, and can often be found wandering curio shops manhandling the merchandise in an effort to glean esoteric information.<br/><br/><strong>Description</strong>: Aelys has not shed the refinement of her youth, and dresses in a way that might seem unexpected of a scholar of the dark and obscure.  Her fluffy clothing is, nevertheless, rife with hidden pockets and fanciful pouches that contain old, curious or seemingly mundane items whose import is impossible to guess to those who lack Aelys' unique skills.  Her thick, silky black hair is cut into heavy, blunt bangs and held back at either side of her head to prevent it getting into her grey eyes.  She stands at 5'3" tall and her slender form is graced with soft curves, making her easy to underestimate intellectually.  Which works precisely to her advantage.<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>: Aelys was the second daughter of Troun and Elspeth Wimpenny, a noble family of Ustalav centered in the capital city of Caliphas.  She was raised to be a proper noble woman, with training in etiquette, singing, fashion and studies which might lend to her conversational skills.  She was quite content, for the most part, with her strange, yet pampered lifestyle, though she often wondered about the lives of those beyond the walls of the castle.  She knew that their town was not like other places in Golarion, and that many young women's studies did not include arcane training or lessons on the undead.  Nor did their homes contain so many places where holy water and silver weapons were squirreled away.<br/><br/>Aelys' heritage as a half-elf, the product of an illicit tryst her mother and father carried on with a brilliant man who'd spent several months as a guest in their home, was never a concern for her family, though they both were careful to hide the truth from the rest of the world.  Even in Caliphas, half-elves were not warmly welcomed or accepted.  When Aelys' keen intellect, thirst for knowledge and penchant for magic were discovered at the age of seven, her parents sent away for a half-elf tutor to train her in the arcane arts and foster her mental pursuits.<br/><br/>Aelys and her younger sister, Lillibeth, were as different as night and day.  Where Aelys enjoyed spending her time reading dusty old tomes about the macabre or ancient, Lilli preferred to be outdoors on the rare occasions when the  sun showed its face, and otherwise devoted her time to the studies of the nobility and devotion to the Goddess Pharasma.  As they grew older, the two sisters became virtual strangers, and after the deaths of their parents at the hands of the undead while they were traveling from Caliphas to Ardis, the sisters went their separate ways.<br/><br/>Lilli joined Pharasma's service as a cleric, leaving Caliphas to travel to Sothis and the High Temple of Pharasma.  Aelys remained on her family's estate for only a few months longer, before she was contacted by Professor Lorrimor and hired on as a kind of guide on one of his many expeditions.  He had learned of her gift at 'reading' artifacts and  her impressive breadth of knowledge from her former tutor, and had the idea that her skills would aid him greatly in his work.  The two got along famously, and after their adventure ended, Aelys never returned to her family's estate.  She had acquired a taste for travel and exploration, finding work with other explorers and archaeologists that allowed her to indulge in those things she most enjoyed.<br/><br/>Over the years, she was hired several other times by the professor, and the two acquired quite a fondness for one another, though their personalities and work precluded extended contact outside of the bounds of their contracts.