Appearance

Physical Description

Zinzi is underweight, regularly forgets to eat unless reminded, and as a result can be sickly, particularly in the winter. Her breath can be raspy, due to injuries sustained while she was young.

Identifying Characteristics

Zinzi has light freckles, and a bandit’s arrow has left a puckered, painful scar just under her left breast.

Physical quirks

Zinzi wheezes when physically straining or when the air is too cold.

Apparel & Accessories

Zinzi wears her mother’s old clothes, resized to fit her smaller frame. As the wife of a reasonably wealthy farmhand, she had a love of quality silks and soft furs.

Special abilities

Zinzi acquired a spellbook from the market somewhere along the way and has been studying it with single minded vigor. She could cast a few cantrips already by the time she was thirteen, an impressive feat for a hedge witch.

Mentality

Personal history

Zinzi was a little girl when her father was killed in a bandit raid on Foxhollow Farm. A merchant wagon was staying there as guests of her parents and the combined wealth of the plantation and the merchant were too tempting a target.
 
Several dozen bandits swarmed over the farm’s meager defenses and slaughtered everyone they found; the merchants, the farmhands, Zinzi’s father and brother, and even a bard that was staying there for the night. Only Zinzi and her mother survived, and the farm was given to other tenants by Erazabethene Whitefeather.
 
Zinzi herself was found lying in a pool of her own blood, a bandit’s arrow impaling her lung. Her mother saved her using techniques from her years as the farm’s primary veterinarian.
 
Zinzi’s mother sent her to apprentice as Manerray while she left for Krezzym to find work. Zinzi hasn’t heard from her mother since.

Education

In lessons, Zinzi is diligent and devoured knowledge more voraciously than any food. She routinely outpaces her tutors, and is even a match for Manerray Landis Blackstone at his own craft. She also remained isolated from other children for most of her life, treating them at best as if they had the plague, at worst as if they were pawns to manipulate in her schemes, which usually revolve around getting her hands on books the elders didn’t want her to have.

Employment

Zinzi works as an apprentice Manerray for Landis Blackstone, but most find it unlikely that she will stay in the craft as an adult, as her ambition is too powerful.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Zinzi has a corner of her room in the Alcedene Ossuary repurposed into a fungus farm for various medicinal purposes, the largest of its kind in the area.
 
She also has a mastery of magic on par if not exceeding a trained Tower apprentice, self taught from books she bought at market.

Failures & Embarrassments

Zinzi lost her temper at a festival once, flinging wine onto Erazabethene Whitefeather's dress. The Plutarch refused to let Landis pay for the expensive gown, and it’s a common rumor that Zinzi fumes about the implied debt.

Mental Trauma

The death of Zinzi’s household weighs heavy on her mind. It’s no secret that she’s convinced a conspiracy of townspeople aided the bandits.

Intellectual Characteristics

Zinzi is obsessive and diligent, with a wit that sometimes borders on shrewishness, and sometimes crosses the line.

Morality & Philosophy

Zinzi is a pragmatist, doing what she needs to do in order to accomplish a goal.

person.sexuality

Zinzi has never in living memory been on a date, nor expressed any interest in doing so. When she was fourteen, a boy attempting to court her was rebuffed with such biting, specific hatred that he didn’t appear in public for weeks, and even then had a fraction of his confidence left.

Taboos

Zinzi never lets a grudge go.

Known Languages

Common, Old Tongue, Elvish, Goblin

Personality

Quotes & Catchphrases

“People are shit, and then they die. I won’t rely on anyone.”
 
“If I wanted to kiss a slimy little worm, I’d go to my outhouse and stick my tongue in your grandmother’s eyesocket.”

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Zinzi is full of encyclopedic knowledge and boundless lore.

Likes & Dislikes

Zinzi loves to read both fiction and nonfiction, she loves stories and tales particularly when performed by a trained bard. Zinzi dislikes people, particularly young people.

Virtues & Personality perks

Zinzi has a strong sense for moderation, and rarely overdoes it on anything but her studies.

Vices & Personality flaws

Zinzi is wrathful, spiteful, and often irascible.

Hygiene

Zinzi bathes much as her mentor does, in herbal oils that transfer the sanitized, medicinal scent to her.

Social

Birthplace

Foxhollow Farm

Current Residence

Ossuary of Alcedene

Contacts & Relations

Landis Blackstone, Mentor. Keel Blackstone, fellow apprentice.

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Apprentice Manerray

Wealth & Financial state

30 GP
 
Wealth Score: 1d4+4

Religious Views

Lapsed Deminite

Social Aptitude

Zinzi is good at manipulating people, but bad at forming long term friendships. A small group of her fellow children claim to be able to see the ‘real Zinzi’, which is in her heart a good person.

Mannerisms

Zinzi instinctively maintains almost as much physical distance from others as emotional distance.

Hobbies & Pets

Zinzi has been working on making her own grimalkin

Speech

Zinzi speaks properly and forcefully, despite the wheeze that sometimes creeps in.