Catrine Ticker
- (a.k.a. Cat/Curtie/Kiki/Christmas/etc.)
Physical Description
Body Features
On the back of her left shoulder is a large, twisted scar that spreads from her from her left shoulder blade to ¼ down her left arm. After befriending Quethon Abot Jayvos, she received a dragon mark. The red mark wraps around her eyes and continues from the top of the left shoulder to the back of her right leg.
To those who can see it, her right hand is imprinted with a faintly glowing mark of a handshake with Dormír.
General Physical Condition
Catrine is particularly agile for a rock gnome from years of running and espionage work; however, her upper body strength is very poor due to her heavily injured left shoulder. She has an exceptionally hard time lifting/pushing/etc.
Physical Quirks
She generally keeps herself in a poor posture, hunching over constantly unless in the presence of someone she deems incredibly respectable. After years of hunching over a desk and a few more crouching in the shadows, she finds standing straight to be uncomfortable.
Her voice is high pitched with a lot of vocal fry. She is a frequent stutterer, mostly tripping over first syllables and repeating words several times over.
Apparel & Accessories
Catrine prefers dark, loose clothes that allow easy movement. The most consistent part of her attire is a belt that includes her Thieves tools and Tinkering Tools; she will have these on her regardless of what else she is wearing, often hiding it under her clothes or by a sash. She has a fondness for brass and copper trinkets, and will wear them or attach them to her belt if they do not make any noise when she moves.
Specialized Equipment
- Cloak of Elvenkind
- Ring of Protection (Gifted by Pelekai)
- Jeweled Flametongue Dagger (Won by Dramble in a game of cards)
- Norstiri pistol (stolen)
Special abilities
- Well practiced in minor magics. (Arcane Trickster)
- Has vast knowledge of magical and non-magical technology and how it works from years in a lab (Arcana (Expertise)/Artificer’s Lore)
- Skilled with various tools after building machines most of her life (Tinkering Tools/Thieves Tools (Expertise))
- Nearly a decade of infiltration training (Arcane Trickster/Stealth (Expertise))
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Out on the streets with no social prowess and quite a lot of unusual information, Catrine soon fell into dangerous company. While searching for new resources to start her own research, she was taken in by several rogues to their boss. Their boss, the local head of a national criminal organization, offered the young gnome her life and a wealth of resources in exchange for her talents and whatever information she could gather. Scared and not knowing what else to do, she accepted the deal.
As magical items were seen as a far more valuable to the underground than her clockwork experiments, Catrine threw herself into research of magic far past the enchantments she and her family cast on their inventions. Over the years, she became known for being able to identify a number of magical items, and equally well known for being able to make convincing counterfeits of said magical items. She was tasked with various counterfeiting schemes, some going far better than others, some of which ended with her becoming possessed for some periods of time. (One of which she became possessed for some period of time. It was quite the time to be sure.)
Though she had created a name for herself below Cervantes, the information she needed to continue where her family failed was nowhere to be found in the city. After nearly ten years of successful espionage, she was able to convince her higher-ups to allow her to leave on her own investigations into other magic items and developing technology so long as she continued to return and report her findings. She accepted this fact, knowing there is no escape from their Knowing eyes.
Gender Identity
Sexuality
Education
Employment
- House Cervantes (Formerly)
Accomplishments & Achievements
- Knowns to the underground as the go-to expert for magical and non-magical mechanics
- Assisted in freeing Quethon from vampirism
Failures & Embarrassments
- Not learning/understanding all of her family’s inventions when she had the chance
- Getting wrapped up in the underground
- Minor gambling problem
Morality & Philosophy
Growing up under the crown, she loves her home country of Eregoth very much, but after being underground for so long and seeing the internal wars they wage with each other, she finds them inherently corrupt, too blinded by pride and wealth to lead properly.
No matter the course of the war, she rejects entrusting powerful knowledge that could directly aid Keldan. After being raised in the heart of Eregoth, her anti-Keldan entiments are extremely deep rooted.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Virtues & Personality perks
Vices & Personality flaws
Personality Quirks
- She has many aliases and will give any new person she meets a different name.
- She gets extremely excited by the promise of new items to study and may lock herself away to investigate them.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Quethon Abot Jayvos (helped save) - She is awestruck by the young dragon and realizes how vital he is to all of Eregoth. She is extremely defensive of him.
Myndir Aladran (Associate and “Friend”) - Their disastrous circumstances of meeting and subsequent shenanigans have left her very weary of him; however, she is amazed by the extent of his magical research and respects his stance on the acquisition of knowledge (i.e. those who aren’t doing anything meaningful with it shouldn’t have that knowledge)
Yastel Merrid (Boss)- Catrine is not a fan of the cut-throat underground of Cervantes, but knows that she has to treat her boss with the uptmost respect regardless.
Dormír (once employer) - Intimidated by his presence though intrigued by his enigmatic goals; she regrets coming into contact with him, but knows it can't be avoided now.
Family Ties
Maribel & Rictor Ticker (Parents (Deceased))
Hecate & Jay Ticker (Paternal Aunt & Uncle (Deceased))
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