[ Extra XP added in] Chiara Venterrini. The daughter of unknown parents, she was found abandoned and raised by humble weavers. Early in her life, however, she began to manifest unusual qualities of beauty and intelligence -- and an irritating habit of getting herself into scrapes from which her adoptive parents could not easily rescue her -- and she was sold to the courtesan guilds. There she was schooled and showed great promise. Her particular interest above all else lay in history, but she had a compassion for other women regardless of their status. During the course of her studies, she went to Dilatente, the finishing school for Vodacce fate witches and a center for their secret education and for the operations of the Sophia's Daughters. She assisted secretly in the illegal education of the noble-born fate witches who might one day come to be her enemies; and in the process, one of them discovered in her a latent skill that even the courtesan tests had failed to reveal: a touch of Sorte of her own, so slight and undeveloped as to be almost undetectable. Now Chiara has a dilemma: to seek out the truth of her mysterious parentage, which must be at least half noble (and almost certainly illegitimate) -- or to avoid the knowledge that might also reveal her for what she is, an educated Fate Witch. She can afford to tell no one but the friend who first discovered it about her remarkable abilities, lest she be destroyed. What powers she has uncovered in herself, she practices secretly, in private. And the aims of Sophia's Daughters remain near and dear to her heart, to grant women a freedom that would make her own situation less unusual. Traits: -- Brawn 2 -- Finesse 3 -- Wits 4 -- Resolve 3 -- Panache 2 Hubris: Ambitious Background: Hidden Identity Secret Society: Sophia's Daughters Half-blood Sorte -- Arcana 1 -- Coins 1 -- Cups 1 Skills: Courtier Dancing 2 Etiquette 3 Fashion 2 Oratory 1 -- Gossip 1 Sincerity 1 Courtesan Acting 1 Etiquette 3 Unobtrusive 1 Dancing 2 Jenny - Masseur - Servant Etiquette 3 Fashion 2 Menial Tasks 1 Unobtrusive 1 Spy Shadow 2 Stealth 3 -- Conceal 1 Disguise 1 Poison 1 Criminal Shadow 2 Stealth 3 Quack 1 Gambling 1 Scholar History 2 Mathematics 1 Philosophy 1 Research 2 Knife Attack 3 Parry 1 Athlete Climbing 1 Footwork 3 Sprinting 1 Throwing 1 Advantages: -- Trained Spider (Message Transfer) -- Languages: Montaigne, Castillian -- Literacy (in Vodacce) -- Left-handed