Appearance

Physical Description

Ophelia is a small person, standing only at 3’4”. She moves like a dancer and has the athleticism of one. Often wearing greens that compliment her eyes, her hair falls in long curls around her shoulders and she favors flowing dresses and clothing that does not restrict her.

Facial Features

It can be difficult to spot, but her tongue is longer and narrower than that of most humans, reaching a fork at the end that flickers when she says words with an s.

Physical quirks

Anyone who gets close enough has a chance to notice that Ophelia wears makeup not just on her face, but on her arms and hands as well. Her skin is actually very fine scales that articulate with her motions. The makeup covers the true color and allows her to pass for human. It requires a DC 16 Investigation check to discover this detail.

Specialized Equipment

Ophelia is always making use of her Disguise Kit, it is responsible for her current appearance. Her true appearance hidden.

Mentality

Personal history

Ophelia grew up an athlete and musical prodigy, free of worries in a well off household. Or so it seemed until she was a teenager. She wasn't aware that her parents were operatives of nefarious interests. Her father, Elapid Krait was an assassin and her mother a political espionagist. They met in a palace trying to topple a governorship for different sides and in enemies to lovers style they never parted since. Once they had Ophelia, they kept her in their nefarious past hidden. They settled down, for a years long project infiltration. Giving Ophelia a stable home into her adolescence. Ophelia's mother even taught her how to play clarinet.
 
Things seemed good, they were prosperous and Ophelia accepted that their parent's occasional absences were travels to see unwell relatives or meeting with someone important.
 
But they couldn't outrun justice for their assassinating and destabilizing ways forever.
 
After the assassination of a local head of state caused anarchy in a city-state, someone had to step in. This was just the sort of thing that would bring about and adventuring guild, like the Stewards of a Dream!
 
They came and rooted out the assassin and his masterminding wife. The townfolk enraged took out their vengeance by burning down Ophelia's home farm and manor. Ophelia escaped first, she doesn't know what happened after that between her parents and the Stewards who came to stop them. But days later her father found her. They lived in fear of the Stewards as they fled.
 
 
Bullet Points of Life Since:
 
Fell in love with a fiery genasi, Elta, but was whisked away from the city when her father's mark was eliminated, on the run again. It was from Elta N'john that she learned to play piano.
 
Embarked on her own path away from her father. Negotiated a peace with a gnoll warrior clan that was threatening a farming village.
 
Once could have stopped her father when she encountered him by chance in a new city, but didn't. She doesn't know what happened as a result of leaving him.

Accomplishments & Achievements

In her early twenties, after Ophelia was on her own, she successfully brokered a peace between a gnoll clan and a community of farmers that had been in conflict. Now the gnolls protect the tradeways in exchange for a supply of healthy grown foods that they could not farm themselves.

Mental Trauma

Having her whole life pulled out from under her when her parents took down the leaders of the city she grew up in was extraordinarily traumatic for her. This was her first experience outside of the safe bubble her parents had created for her and she still has nightmares about the Stewards of a Dream coming for her and her parents. They took her mother that night, and her home burned to the ground. It started the most difficult period of her life, living on the run with her father, and learning the family trade.

Known Languages

Ophelia only speaks Common and Sylvan, but savvy people will note that she often takes time out of her day to ritual cast Comprehend Languages so she can understand things she overhears.

Personality

Motivation

Ophelia wants to shake off the past and legacy of her family. She carries in her a heavy guilt for the things which her parents did, the lives lost because of them and the irreparable damage they did.
 
Its going to be difficult to make up for everything they did, but she feels the responsibility to try.

Vices & Personality flaws

Her mother's influence still lingers in her, and she is sometimes unable to resist a cutting remark or giving a withering stare.

Hygiene

Exceptionally good, she was raised as a prim and proper lady in many respects. Groomed to be comfortable in the higher rungs of society, as any good spy would be. She wasn't aware at the time this was what she was being prepared for. However, the meticulous way in which she keeps herself carries on even today.

Social

Current Residence

The Tree Who Dreamed

Family Ties

Her father is Elapid Krait, an assassin of little renown, which is how all the best assassins prefer it.
 
Her mother was , a spy of great renown but was always realized to be who she is just one minute too late. Unfortunately, she was taken and presumed killed by the Stewards of a Dream when Ophelia was just a teenager.

Social Aptitude

Ophelia is very socially savvy, sometimes too much. It is easy for her to see the ways in which groups and people interact and apply gentle pressure to them in just the right ways to get what she wants. She's trying to break the habit, but its so easy to have her way.