A child at court, considering the world a private playground
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Appearance:
The kid looks cute and not at all too dangerous (heh, she's 6, what could happen?) - her hair is dark brown, worn long and held together by silver rings or a silver net. Interesting is that her eyes are a different color each - the left is green, the right is hazel. The eyebrow above the right eye is broken by a scar, the reminder of one of her adventures - the scar lifts the corner of the eye slightly. The quality of her skin and her cherry lips hint at that she might grow into quite a beauty someday, provided she does not jump through windows all too often.
Background:
A true child of Thannar Tamerlaine, little Flora is unpredictable, difficult to come by, stubborn as a brick, touchy, and pokes her nose around in other people's business. So far, Flora has been responsible for one ambassador's abdication, one hundred and thirty-seven broken windows, twenty-two shattered statues and one gardener's heart attack.
Flora is the third child, much younger than her two siblings, and resenting being considered a baby. She's already six, dammit, and smarter than many of her father's advisors.
With the parents being distant figures, and the teachers receiving little respect from her, Flora has become independent of the council of adults very soon, and has her own way how to do things. She deeply resents any attempts to control her, or to make her take responsibility for her actions.
Driven by great curiosity, she will sneak into the chambers of nobles, aided by her surfacing talent - she has already learnt to open locks, walk on walls or haste herself without any teaching, and has dicovered how to cast the Pain spell in case some babysitter is trying to get hold of her. She knows the value of good gossip, and one might find her too well-informed for her own good, especially if she managed again to take a peek at those top secret documents.
With her own swiftness and wit, she managed to foil any attempts to restrain her (more so that lately she discovered that being of royal blood, all the golems in the palace will obey her unless given a contradictory order by one of her siblings or her father), and survive her first assassination attempt.
Roleplaying Notes:
Basically, Flora is a young adult trapped in a child's body that does not grow as fast as she would have it. Certainly not gullible, she puts many a courtier to shame, and seems to revel in it - pick a person at court, and make him look like a fool.
To those of adventurous bent and free spirit though she will be strongly attracted, and if she picks a favourite, that person will have to be her company, unless of course he wants to find himself being chased by a golem intent on picking him up and carrying him after the princess.
But should one be accepted as a friend or even gain her respect, he will find a valuable ally, though a mischiefous one.
Think of Flora as a playful fairy, ill-placed at the court full of intrigue and pretension, while she can play the Game already, she resents it with all her stubborn will.
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Interesting. Reminds me a little bit of my Ketong Shalhol character.
4/5.
An excellent NPC to build plots and subplots about. Two thumbs and a tail up.
Love the entire concept! Probably sneaks out of the castle often and could very well get into trouble in the city where the players must rescue her. Now the king owes and the daughter wants to leave with you. or or or or or
+She is one little beast in Echos campain were i am playing but she is, one wery interesting character and can throw wery good pies and fruits. Believ me :)
Strolen with this rescue, you dont know how right you have, my charakter have sawe her only one time but she is not wery offten in the castle and she sawe her before she can break here neck from falling from here horse {my characters horse} :)
I JUST HATE HER!!!!!!
If i could i would kill her whit no remose!
Damn little sprite!
Wonderful - from a GMs viewpoint the possibilities for winding up those PCs used to simply beating up all their adversaries are simply endless - from the PCs viewpoint she could be a real pain
Normally I shy away form giving control of powerful monsters (like golems) to small children but in this situation it does make sense (maybe the wizards who created the golems should have given a little more thought to the activation conditions)
One quibble - I don't like the idea of her being "a young adult in a child's body" - she's only six years old and thus should have the motivations of a six year old
Overall - a good solid character - definitely a 4, possibly even a 4.5
4/5
BTW - Krishna, why do you hate her so much - true she's a little brat but she's not THAT bad - besides that's what makes her interesting
Dragon lord.....YOU DONT KNOW HER! :)
I will show her the back of my hand,... with a 5.0!
Hope you learned you lesson there little one.
Updated: re-cathegorized
A good npc. An excellent princess.