Low Estate/Characters/Boudin Verdonk

• Great: Community (Underworld), Resolve
• Good: Community (Upper Crust), Weapons (Bravo*)
• Fair: Athletics, Reflexes
• Average: Fingersmithery, Stealth

Bravo is intended as street-brawlers of all classes; weapons that might be used by slum thugs or by the worse-behaved youth of the upper class. Chains, short swords, fists, daggers, clubs.

• Bastard Nobility
• Street Brawler

• Picaresque Lover
• Secret Police Informant
• Every Urchin's Hero

Boudin is unofficially-acknowledged as a by-blow of the powerful De Wilde merchant-noble family; the connection is tenuous, but he makes a living as go-between, fixer and introductions man for when the nobility needs something done in the underworld. His work has thus far not been much with great affairs of state or grand machinations: but the great and the good have plenty of sordid little problems to keep him modestly occupied, if rarely actually busy. Most of his actual time is spent in loitering, roving, carousing and related pursuits with troublemakers of various classes; while he's careful to avoid getting tied down to any one gang, he's on good terms with plenty.

Rumours abound as to his precise parentage - the most popular involves a (exotic foreign nation) ambassador and Lady Clare De Wilde (then a society beauty, now a leading political light, still unmarried). Boudin has done nothing to quell the more exciting rumours, but the truth is that he has only a few clues himself.

Boudin was brought up in Sister Marianne's, and a good deal of his work involves the placement of bastards, harelipped first sons and similar genealogical complications. Although he'd be the last to admit it, Boudin thinks of the place as his family, or at least his one constant loyalty.