Lindie Asklepa
STRENGTH 16 (+3), DEXTERITY 18 (+4), CONSTITUTION 18 (+4), INTELLIGENCE 16 (+3), WISDOM 4 (-3), CHARISMA 12 (+1)
Concubine Lindwyrm Asklepa (a.k.a. Lindie)
Lyndwyrm "Lindie" Asklepa is the daughter of Jorma Asklepa and Adder Nithhogg, although she was adopted by the Tengu (Krona Tailfeather) after her mother and baby brother were killed in an attack on the apothecary where they worked and lived. Growing up, Lindie spied for the illicit newspaper, the Undergazette, where the Tengu worked as a journalist. At sixteen, she became the concubine of Katib Hugo Dargent the "spare" son of the noble Dargent Family, and she now lives with him on his family's estate in the Noble District.
Physical Description
Apparel & Accessories
See the Team Inventory for a full list of the group's items.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
When Lindie was little she lived with her mother and baby brother in an apartment below the potions apothecary that her mother owned. It was a modest shop on the lower side of the Mercantile District, and from the tender age of five, Lindie was helping out with the shop's accounts and managing the shop when her mother went out on errands.
Her mother immediately recognised the items that the noble had purchased as components of a forbidden Div-summoning ritual, and so drew a secret symbol on her door to alert the Undergazette that she had important news to tell them. All going to plan, a representative from the secret free-press of the underground would come to the shop tomorrow so she could fill them in on the details.
All didn’t go to plan. In the night, the entire shop and apartment below it were filled with a poisonous gas. Lindie was comparatively lucky. Since she slept on a slightly lower level of the appartment than her mother and brother, less of the gas got into her room. Her high constitution and poison resistance meant that she survived the gas, but her mind was damaged by the poison. When she woke, groggy, in the morning she stumbled upstairs to find her mother and baby brother had suffocated in their bed and cot.
Years later, when Lindie was almost an adult, she spotted a noble with golden glowing eyes and a signet ring bearing an unfamiliar symbol. She pounced from above and attacked the noble, striking him with her special blood-crystal kukri knife that she used to defend herself in the understreets. Luckily for the noble, Lindie had chosen to coat her blade with sleep venom that morning, and as he crumpled into unconsciousness a sudden flash of a tail poking out from under the noble’s coat told Lindie that this noble wasn’t fully human.
Lindie assumed that would be that last she would see of Vulpix, but a few days later, he was back in the same spot, this time in disguise as a common Kitsune, without a noble ring, but still wearing the fancy headband that marked him out as a target for thieves. When she scornfully pointed this out to him, Lindie was intrigued and a little charmed to discover that Vulpix had been learning her Vishkanyan language in order to be able to better communicate with her. Over time, the two developed something of a friendship, and Vulpix, who was actually Hugo Dargent - the second son of House Dargent, invited her to live with him at the Noble Court.
Lindie agreed, on the basis that it would help her get closer to finding out which noble killed her family. However, that initial goal has been put on a back burner for now as she maskerades as Hugo's concubine, keeping him and his magical pet Bunbun, Connie, safe as they attempt to bring down the noble court from the inside, and hopefully prevent the upcoming apocalypse.
One day when Lindie was watching the shop alone, she served a strange noble in dark robes, a full-face mask and golden glowing eyes. As Lindie was assisting the masked noble, another noble entered (a member of House Mason, who Lindie recognised immediately since the Mason sygnet ring broadcast that any of his purchases should be discounted by a third of the original price). The dark-robed noble left abruptly, without even collecting his change. After Lindie had finished serving the Mason, she was too late to catch up with the masked noble, and so had to come clean with her mother that she had short-changed such a powerful member of the city.
She was found by Krona Tailfeather, a Tengu reporter from the Undergazette, who took her under his wing and brought her to live with him in his home in a lower storey of the city. After several attempts, he taught her to realise that her family had been poisoned, and it wasn’t safe to return to the shop in the Mercantile District. Lindie became fixated on the idea that she must treat poison with poison and kill the secret noble who had murdered her mother and baby brother.
Krona set the five-year-old Lindie up as an urchin spy for the Undergazette, learning some of her Vishkanya snake language so they could communicate. Lindie was small and stealthy and over time became a master of sneaking through vents and hiding in shadows collecting information for Krona's articles.
Also at some point, someone gave the child a knife.
Curiosity was enough to prevent her from finishing the noble off in the moment, so instead she dragged him into a waterpipe and waited for him to wake up. When the noble awoke, he told her to call him Vulpix and admitted that he was a Kitsune who, despite being a noble, held a great resentment towards the nobility, in particular his own family. The Kitsune was the first person in ten years (other than Krona) who had shown any interest in Lindie as a person, rather than as an asset, and after several hours of a one-sided conversation, Lindie able to understand but refusing to talk in anything other than Vishkanyan, which the Kitsune didn’t know, Vulpix was able to convince Lindie to let him leave.
Sexuality
Although Lindie is asexual, she is more than willing to use romantic or sexual attraction towards her as a way to get what she wants. Most drastically, when she first arrived at Court, one of the Darktusk nobles, Katib Rifi Darktusk, took her out for Absinthe and didn't live to see the morning. It isn't quite clear what went down, but it is possibly significant that the Darktusk Katib had golden eyes and was willing to get the new snakegirl at court drunk and try to seduce her, without any shared langauges.
Education
Lindie received her early education at home from her mother, Jorma Asklepa, mostly in the art of poisons and other alchemy. Showing a natural aptitude for numbers, she quickly mastered the till at her mother's apothecary, even working alone when her mother was away on errands. After the shop was attacked, Lindie's academic education was cut short in favour of being trained in stealth and espionage for the Undergazette by her adopted father, Krona Tailfeather. Despite her reluctance to speak it, she learned to understand Undercommon, the language of the Undercity, and growing up around journalists taught her to read and write in a few other languages.
Employment
Lindie is officially employed as the personal concubine of Katib Hugo Dargent, although their agreement is mostly a front to appease Hugo's parents. Lindie acts as his personal attendant, bodyguard and would be expected to sleep with or marry him, if desired. She mostly accompanies him to court and social gatherings, and keeps him and his pet Bunbun, Connie Furr, alive and safe.
Lindie's personal motivation for being among the nobles of the Second Court is to discover and assasinate the noble with the golden eyes, who she believes killed her family.
Mental Trauma
Lindie's mind was damaged by the poisonous gas that she was exposed to as a child. A misunderstanding from seeing her distorted reflection in one of the bottles in her family's apothecary has led her to identify as a snake ever since. While the mistake was genuine at first, as she has grown older it is unclear quite how much of this is her truly believing herself to be a snake, and how much is a ruse to appear less of a threat to the people around her. Either way, she is extremely skilled at sneaking through vents and, although she understands several languages, Linde chooses to only speak in Vishkanyan.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Hugo Dargent: Lindie is fiercely loyal and protective of Hugo, although she believes he is a bit soft. She keeps him safe and follows his lead in social interactions. While Lindie can understand several languages, she only speaks Vishkanyan, which leads to Hugo generally acting as her main translator. For this reason, Lindie likes to mess with him, providing unhelpful responses that Hugo must then temper on the fly with his own diplomacy skills.
Connie Furr: Since Connie is Hugo's pet, Lindie views protecting Connie as an extension of her responsibility to Hugo. Although Lindie and Connie are allies through Hugo, and even work together well when they're paired off together without him, their friendship is strained. Lindie considers Connie a bit of a blabbermouth (which she is), and Connie is nervous of Lindie's instinct to solve problems through violence.
Family Ties
Krona: After Lindie's birth family were murdered by the noble with the golden eyes, Lindie was taken in and raised by Krona, a tengu reporter for the Undergazette. Despite drifting apart when Lindie joined Hugo Dargent in the Noble Court, they recently reunited and now see each other more frequently. While Lindie, Connie and Hugo's actions have sometimes put Krona in danger, they support him as much as they can and leak information about the Noble Court to aid in the Undergazette's ongoing mission to challenge the oppressive actions of the nobility.
Hobbies & Pets
Basil: Short for Basilisk (and unknowingly named after her baby brother), Basil is Lindie's intelligent Clockwork Familiar. Mechanically he is a clockwork spy with familiar abilities, and he has been crafted in the shape of a winged snake with green jewelled eyes. Each morning, Lindie winds Basil up so that he is fit for purpose.
Relationships
Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Species
Professions
Currently Held Titles
Age
18 years old
Date of Birth
Scrapday, Thiefmoon, 1294
Birthplace
Merchantile Sector of the Common Level
Spouses
Hugo Dargent
(Master)
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Pronouns
She/Her
Gender
Female
Sexuality
Asexual, although she wouldn't be adverse to using romantic or sexual attraction towards her to get what she wants.
Presentation
Faint orchid scent (as concubine)
Vishkanya Venom scent (natural)
Vishkanya Venom scent (natural)
Eyes
Green snake eyes
Hair
Dark and wavy, with green highlights
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale and scaly
Height
6ft. 2 inches.
Weight
95 lbs.
Other Affiliations
Common (Unspoken)
Dwarven (Unspoken)
Earspeak (Understand Only)
Elven (Unspoken)
Gnomish (Unspoken)
Goblin (Unspoken)
Mongreltongue (Unspoken)
Orcish (Unspoken)
Undercommon (Unspoken)
Vishkanyan (First Language)
Appears in...
Has encountered Hugo Dargent in Human and Kitsune form.
