Ot , also known as Dusk Steelgleam , also known as Melissandra , also known as Azelandrik , or Azel , is a changeling rogue and master inquisitive based in Sharn , Breland . In the guise of Dusk, she runs the Champion Inquisitive Agency . [1] [2]
Personality
She is highly enterprising. [1]
Description
In her disguises, Ot commonly wears several layers of carefully arranged clothing for ready disguises and costume changes, including a cloak that can be worn inside out. [2]
Abilities
For a changeling, Ot can change her appearance with remarkable speed and with greater fidelity to different races, well enough to fool race-specific magic. [1]
She is skilled in all the requisite fields for a master inquisitive, including deception and sensing the same, making disguises, dealing with intimidating people, gathering information, opening locks, finding and disabling traps, local and street knowledge, finding things, and senses. She can also track people, analyze a crime scene, and magically detect lies , as well as compel others in an area to speak truthfully . [1]
Activities
Ot maintains a number of personas and employs a variety of disguises as part of her work as an inquisitive. [1] Dusk Steelgleam is a male half-elf , slender and favoring stylish clothes and wide-brimmed hats. He is the ostensible head of the agency and deals with clients from their offices in downtown Sharn. [2]
Azelandrik, or Azel, is a male human , older and heavyset, who lives above a bakery and supposedly works for Sharn's Office of Transportation . He has an office by the docks where he apparently checks manifests and reviews cargo and transportation records, working half-days on account of his health. This is how Ot spends a typical morning. [2]
Melissandra is a female elf , young and curvy, who lives around the corner from the Champion Inquisitive Agency with Dusk. She visits many local businesses and bars and is a regular at the Pewter Tankard , which enables Ot to meet contacts in the afternoon. [2] [1]
Ot constantly seeks out new clients and fresh resources, contacts, and assistants. When investigating people for either purpose, she would usually meet them in at least two different identities. [1]
Relationships
As Dusk, he has a band of five capable rogues who can investigate or recover something for him. [1] Ot also employs another changeling, Eva , as an assistant, receptionist, and secretary. [2]
As Melissandra, she knows Merla , a halfling fence who deals with Sharn's criminal underbelly. [1]
Possessions
She wears a +1 mithral chain shirt , a ring of protection +1 , and a cloak of resistance +1 . She wields a dagger and a hand crossbow with a score of bolts and has a potion of enlarge person and a potion of reduce person . She keeps 15 gp on hand. [1] She carried a well-laden satchel with her. [2]
History
In one good day, Ot discreetly received information from Merla at the Pewter Tankard and discovered the identity of a smuggler bringing weapons into Sharn. Next she received a new client, a young noble fearful of being followed by a thuggish man, whom Ot had already noticed in the street outside. [2]
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Jesse Decker , Matthew Sernett , Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel , & Keith Baker (2005). Races of Eberron . ( Wizards of the Coast ), p. 54. ISBN 0-7869-3658-4 .
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Jesse Decker , Matthew Sernett , Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel , & Keith Baker (2005). Races of Eberron . ( Wizards of the Coast ), pp. 42–43. ISBN 0-7869-3658-4 .