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Name: Avise Israfil
Race: Elf
Occupation: Investor

Appearance:
Avise is a tall, pale, and lithe elf, with a particularly slender frame (unlike her warrior cousins, she has never lifted a bow or held a blade before). She has wavy brown hair that is cropped shorter in the back, but long enough to reach a little past her chin in the front. A strand will occasionally fall across the right side of her face, obscuring it. Her eyes are a deep shade of violet, giving her an entrancing appearance. She looks like she is in her mid to late twenties, but with her elvish blood, who knows?
She foregoes the dresses and ballgowns of the typical high-class woman and instead wears female variations of what wealthy men wear - slim suits and jackets and the like with perhaps a little more color here and a little more flare there. She likes the look and the freedom it gives. "Positively liberating" is how she describes it.

History (secret-less):
Born in Forlorn Forest to a lower elvish lord, Avise never felt like she was the match that her family wanted her to be. She was no warrior, and neither did she feel compelled to study the arcane like her father. At sixteen, Avise left the forest to her family (and her father's title to her younger brother) to travel the land as a simple wanderer. She met and made many friends over the first few years, but the most important was Alexander. A young man with a hefty inheritance with a love for risk and a traveling elf, the two became close friends. They traveled from city to city, and when Alexander was to return home, it was not without offering Avise a place to stay - an offer she accepted without hesitation. Unfortunately, disease took Alexander not too long after and all of his wealth could not persuade death to wait a bit longer. On his last day, Alexander gave Avise two last gifts: the first being a silver necklace he had been saving, and the other his will, which bequeathed all of his worldly possesions to Avise.
Avise does not travel as much as she used to, instead living in Alexander's estate and rarely traveling far from the city. However, she still frequents parties and other expensive events thrown by the rich and powerful (a necessity for a wealthy investor to continue being wealthy). She throws some of her own on occasion, but much prefers to play the role of exalted guest than host.


Skills and Abilities:
Avise has always been good at reading people, particularly in whether or not they are lying. However, she is not perfect in this trade and can be duped by individuals who excel at deception and misdirection (though she may get a "strange vibe" from them, but that just informs her that she does not know when they are telling the truth or lying). She is good at detecting lies in new acquaintances, but does get better the more interactions she has with them.
A frequent attendant at parties and other social gatherings, Avise is excellent in striking up conversations with strangers and meeting the individuals of importance (though part of it may be due to those individuals also seek her from time to time). Easy to talk to and, for lack of better words, fun.
She is accustomed to slow-paced dances and is quite graceful.
Avise also plays the harp in her spare time. She has not been known to offer her services in exchange for money, but she will play if enough people encourage her to do so. Occasionally she will sing, and she has quite the voice.
Also a seasoned horseback rider.

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Name: Wayne Anticus
Race: Human
Occupation: Artist

Appearance: Wayne is a young man in his thirties who stands at an average height of 5'11" and weighs a meagre 68 kilos. Being hugely underweight, his frame is naturally very lank and has a sickly look about him. His pallid complexion is naturally complemented by his emerald colored eyes that have a twinkle in them. Wayne has a bony face with his cheekbones visibly sticking out somewhat even as his eyes seem to have sunk into his cheeks.

A neatly trimmed beard adorns the lower half of his face shaved into a French cut. Directly in contrast with this aspect are his brown hair, messy and unkempt down to every last strand.

Wayne wears a grey overcoat on top of a plain green shirt which he further wears over a tight-fitting white thermal vest that serves to keep the cold at bay. For lower apparel, he wears brown trousers and high fur boots.

History (sans secrets): Wayne always had a liking for nature and even as a kid, he would take his pencil and a pad down to the creek where he would sit and sketch out all that he could for hours on end. From a very young age, Wayne was a very obedient child who would help carry out the household chores and help his parents with their work in spite of remaining sick all the time. His mother was very fond of him and would devote most of her time nursing him back to health. His father, however was a very busy man who would often be away on work carrying out random tasks and such.

As Wayne grew older, his mom contracted some mysterious disease that caused her to weaken gradually until one day, she could no longer move her legs. With all her movement having stopped, she took to the bed and lay there month after month as Wayne took on the responsibility of looking after her.

Unfortunately, she had weakened much and couldn't hold out for long. She passed away in her sleep one night.

Wayne's father never returned from his errand and Wayne was left alone to fend for himself. And so, packing his material and such, he locked the house and left.

Skills and Abilities:

Naturally, being an artist, Wayne has good sketching and rendering skills that allow him to speed sketch things with considerable ease and a good amount of accuracy.

Additionally, Wayne has photographic memory and remembers things exactly how he's seen them from his recent memory.

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Your intro post will be simple. Enter the hall and enjoy yourself until the sun goes down. Nippy will, tragically, die overnight, kicking off the murder spree.