Single parent- father- traveled w/dad conning and swindling small towns, tribes and cities along the coast from Eastling to Dragons Reach. They traveled w/carnivals, performing troops, and seafaring gypsies inland as far as Yordric. The pre-teen Jade became the central bait in many a scam based on her innocent child personae. Dad was good at blaming her for their misfortunes, mom leaving, and their general unhappiness, giving Jade a inferiority complex . NM dad was a drunken gambler by this time and lost all of their earning on a regular basis. Many times they were forced to flee debt collectors, gambling house operators and the local law. He took several opportunities to let her know she would never be successful at their trade. Eventually her father left her in a jail in Tantras when she was 15. She has gone around w/several boyfriends w/personalities like dad but in the end it never works out and she tends to double cross them in the end. Obsess much? Underneath it all she wants to find her dad and show him she's an accomplished operator. Right b4 she slowly strangles him to death.

Currently she is flat broke and has hooked up with the "deputy" of Nimbortan. Working guild contacts as a networked thief she has been working her way into new ventures. W/a supply of easy jobs she has stayed on long enough to start to feel an attraction to the hard man known as Deputy Albrecht. She doesn't dare lead on for fear of upsetting some of her personal plans, but it's getting hard to ignore.

Recently she has taken many surveillance jobs and has been appointed to manage a group important to the guild and the church

Charlatan Specialty: Trickster/Con Artist.

Qualifications: Standard ability scores. Charlatans live off the fat of the land, bending all the rules and copping through loopholes in the law. It is completely against the personality of the Charlatan to be lawful. Charlatans are limited to NG, N, NE, or CN alignments.

Description: Charlatans are masters at manipulating people. Using their high Intelligence and understanding of human nature, Charlatans prey upon the foolish, overconfident, and greedy people around them. Charlatans often seem bold and boisterous, but they always maintain self-control. The profession of swindling others and making them feel good about it is an age-old practice and none are better at it than Charlatans. The Charlatan's profession has its downside, too. When a Charlatan's facade is pierced, he is in grave danger, for no one likes to be conned. Then the Charlatan's quick feet may serve him better than his quick wit.

Role: Charlatans are wanderers. They go from town to town, switching from one identity to another, always a step ahead of the last person they swindled. In large cities, Charlatans may be able to live out most of their lives moving from one quarter to the next. When times are tough and no great con comes to mind. Charlatans sometimes perform sleight- of-hand tricks just to get by. Charlatans also have a knack for acquiring jobs that allow them to bluff their way through each day. Charlatans can sometimes be found masquerading as priests, healers, sages, diplomats, powerful mages, and retired heroes. As player characters, Charlatans are most useful in town-based campaigns or when traveling across inhabited country. Their talents often support the entire party with food, shelter, and minor luxuries. Unfortunately, many of their talents have little use when exploring ruins or wilderness areas. However, they often pose as wizards, warriors, thieves, and sometimes even priests. As NPCs, Charlatan really come into their own.

 

Some of her own guises have include:

A cleric of Gaia- Trapped the garrison in their own stockade. Stole the treasury blind

A squire to a knight of Glamouax- Drugged the household and sold the entire stable and armory bare

A geisha of the oriental Noh Troop Circus of Solemn tranquility - She was caught w/her hand in the till and barely escaped their ninja house mother

Canidate for assistant Mayor of Oakland - Stole the current assistants key embezzeled all the party funds and robbed the donations room while framing her opposition

Warehouse manager for the elven guild of house Tevor- posing as a half elf she stole all the goods and a ship- She finally escaped thier jailhouse 2 days before her excecution using and elaborate door trap using only her own woven hair.

Capt Alyssa the Just- pirate ship on the outer seas of fawnrun- Mutiny in under a week. Sprung her own mantrap. Had to walk the plank.