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Assa'Alliyeh Kressanthair
--Assallya Kressair to humans

--Age: 83
--Race: Elf
--Appearance: Assallya prefers loose revealing silks but is not above wearing petticoats if she must in order to engage in some form of scam or in order to move through an area unnoticed. She uses a number of cosmetics and has a fondness for trinkets.

--Skills/abilities: Assallya is adept at crafting poisons, sedatives, stimulants and recreational drugs. Her skill as a herbalist ends there however. She is also a sorceress that specializes in the ephemeral. She is adept at controlling emotions, charming enemies into becoming allies, and other mind afflicting magics. She also greatly enjoys illusions. Her only true combative spell is the "Shocking Grasp", where she can reach out and electrocute someone by touch.

--Personality: Though small and frail, Assallya is nothing short of a bully. She prefers subtly manipulating people into doing what she wants without them realizing it but has no qualms reaching out and magically crushing a person's will if necessary. Though formerly a slave herself, kidnapped at a young age she has no problem having servants or slaves herself. In short, she's petty, cowardly, greedy and almost as ugly inside as she is beautiful outside. This is not to say that she won't help people if she can. One can never have too many friends after all. However, if there is danger she'd likely contemplate the value of lending aid against the risk.

--Biography: Assallya Kressair was born in the autumn in a small village on the outskirts of Sunia. At the young age of 26 (aprox. 11 or 12 in human years) slavers attacked and killed her entire village except for those taken as slaves. Assallya, her sister Saeliah, and several others were transported far across the continent in order to avoid the elven wrath sure to follow. Assallya and Saeliah were separated when Assallya was purchased be Pasha Alkiel. Head of a powerful group of rogues, Alkiel purchased her as a dancer and concubine for both personal use and for information gathering and blackmail. She then served in Alkiel's bedchamber for the next eight years while being trained in dance, seduction and other roguish arts in order to perform her duties.

She was treated as an object and was given to allies and employees of the Pasha who performed exceptional services. Soon enough, she learned about the many different types of power and discovered that even as a slave she was far from powerless. Succeeding in seducing one of the Pasha's magicians she bid him teach her magic. At first he balked until Assallya cast for him the only thing her father had taught her at that young age, a cantrip. A small thing, it changed the colour of his fingernails, but it was magic none the less. He agreed then, for he was a lonely uncomely man who rarely received a woman to his bed. However, he placed conditions on his tutorial; refusing to train her in combative magics and warning her that should he ever target him with her spells it would mean her death. She surprised all of them by inventing an inferior version of the invisibility spell which allowed her to sneak away from the Pasha's clutches and return undetected. In this way, by filching jewels and prostituting herself she built up savings with a money lender.

It was with the aide of the Pasha's son that she succeeded in poisoning the Pasha, planning on becoming a partner to the successor instead of a slave. With her manipulative mind behind him to advise his passionate power they were sure to bring their competitors to their knees. What she was not expecting was the Pasha's extended family to hire a necromancer to speak with their departed kinsman. He quickly named his murderer and Assallya regretted bragging as he died.

She ran, the Pasha's son giving her a few moments to escape, fearing that she would claim his involvement which would lead to his family asking him uncomfortable questions. The next few months she moved slowly north, the sands left behind her and the lands becoming more lush and green, returning at last to Sunia.

She has since discovered that she doesn't quite fit in with the other elves any more. She has simply spent far too long in foreign lands and hasn't learned all the intricacies of the elven court. Since then she has purchased a vardo wagon and has journeyed around the edges of the empire doing everything from dancing on tables, to performing as a bard. She's also sold fake magical trinkets, whored herself, aided criminal groups as a distraction or spy and a bit of adventuring.