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[H3][color=f7941d][b]Assallya Kressair[/b][/color][/H3]
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Age: Assallya is not exactly sure.  She estimates she's in her nineties.

Race: Elven

Country of Origin: Assallya isn't particularly certain.  It was a vale in the north.

Occupation: Brothel Matron, Information Broker, Facilitator of Introductions, Sorceress

Background: Assallya was born in a small colonial village on the outskirts of Elven lands when her village was raided by Orcish slavers.  They kidnapped her and her sister Saeliah and brought them south to be sold into slavery.  Assallya served as a slave there for decades, serving a Pasha.  She learned to dance, to entertain, how to be a spy and how to use magic to complement that spying.

Though her masters ensured she learned no combative magics she eventually used those very skills she was trained in against them and turned the son against his father.  The son killed the father and Assallya escaped.  Something the son deeply regrets, despite his ascension to power.  There is still a reward for her return- preferably dead so she can't tell the truth about the son's involvement in his father's death.

Assallya then assumed several guises as she wandered the land until she finally settled in Volstryggr.  It took her some years working odd jobs before she managed to purchase a property and open a brothel.  Sometimes she was a whore, other times she assumed the role of a witch selling worthless magical trinkets and talismans.  Sometimes she'd work with various low lives, performing feats of confidence or helping various thieves by using her pretty face to distract victims.  

Once she could afford her brothel, the "Silken Sithin" she began to become a force in the criminal underworld as an information broker.  She used the idea that she has spies through the city, which she does have, to cover for the fact she regularly scryes the local lords, crime gang bosses and anyone that seems important or interesting.  She also facilitates introductions for a small fee, introducing various criminal elements to other criminals that might have necessary special talents or resources.

[b]The Silkin Sithin[/b]:  This brothel is a "gentleman's club".  It resides on the corner of what the locals call "the Crimson Tide", a district dedicated to whoring.  The lower level is a club where beautiful women serve delicacies in exotic costumes upon lush rugs.  There is a raised dais there where women perform for the pleasure of visitors.  In general, there is very little nudity in the lower level.  After all, the point is to entice a patron into visiting upstairs.

She also has two other identities:  

Arlanni the Thief is a barely competent thief that most people don't have much respect for.  This is important because while Assallya can dress the part of a thief and has some small skills she's nowhere near an expert!

Cyrwyn the Gypsy, who is a provider of potions and trinkets and wandered the land in her vardo wagon.