Eva Ross

> *"Enough to drive a stain to madness or a king to his knees." - Wayrest guardsman*
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Eva Ross is a striking pyromancer and the owner of Eva's Emporium.

She is what a majority of mortal men consider the physical embodiment of Dibella, but with a chaotic twist to her.

## Appearance

> *"Fire, curves and exoticism."*
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More striking than beautiful, Eva has jade green eyes and a lightly tanned, unblemished complexion. Her hands and skin are soft as she avoids physical work. Her hair is fiery red, often swept up to an elegant yet loose bun, at other times long and lengthy down her back, depending on mood and company. Medium height, voluptuous figure with full breasts, slender waist that flares to curvaceous hips. Platinum and pearl adornments are worn about her head, neck and right wrist.

## Traits & flaws

> *"Talent, strengths and challenges."*
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Eva is focused, ambitious and passionate about everything she does.

A schemer who uses her cunning to get where she wants to be. She is a consummate social climber and lazy when it comes to hard work, deploying her feminine assets and wiles to take the easier route wherever possible and to manipulate others into performing those harder tasks in her place.

Eva is extravagant with her affections and gold, highly flirtatious and hungry for success. She is even more extravagant when given access to the resources of others and is a woman of expensive tastes upon achieving it. She enjoys to see and be seen, particularly gracing the arm of a wealthy and powerful male.

A sensual pleasure seeker and only a casual follower of her patron, Dibella. She has vibrant qualities that can engage people, animate and attract; sometimes the life and soul of a party at other times an annoying, vain witch. If crossed or forced to do something she dislikes she can be petulant and moody and, on occasion, downright dangerous and vicious.

A talent for destruction, mysticism and illusion. Skills which others have spent cycles studying tend to grace her naturally and are potent arts when applied to her scheming.

## Biography

> *"*What does it matter where I came from? It is where I plan to be that counts*."*
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Daughter, sister, mistress. She was all of those or once had been but none had secured her future or gave her the chances she desired. The merchant and his wife who spawned her were staid and devout. Eva had rebelled where her sister had followed. Black sheep, outcast, once her curves had formed she used them to turn an eye, gain knowledge and skill by sleeping with a city sorcerer many years her senior who had seen the potential in her. The Rift however was too provincial and parochial for Eva and the sorcerer becoming too decrepit and clinging for her aspiring tastes, so using his connections and a little scheming, Eva devised a plan to get herself known in the more happening and cosmopolitan Stormhaven.

Luck struck sweetly for a time and Eva's fortunes looked secure as she graced the arm and bed of one notable noble, looked to run her business ventures from his fine luxurious establishment 'The Sanctuary' that hid a darker nature behind its secret walls. She was sure of her ability to seduce him into gaining his name as a title and ring to her finger, only to be foiled at the last. Her own funds and fortunes began to dwindle, a few investments soured and to keep head above water Eva had to resort to taking a few contracts with one infamous rogue bard, a notorious lady's man and swindler who ran a backstreet establishment in Stormhaven known to a few as the 'Lion's Den'.