Cinnamon

Courtesan of Autumn

**Cinnamon** is a recently recruited agent of STATIC, and member of The Interparty. She is an autumn nymph hailing from the Feywild with powerful magic useful for charming and seducing others. She appears friendly, kind and concerned for others but in actuality is highly calculating and manipulative, using her charms and wiles to gain the loyalty of others for her own, admittedly mostly benign purposes.

## History

An autumn nymph from the Feywild, Cinnamon was created by the archfey Cordelia, the Lady of Dreams. She spent her entire life serving her creator, living in a small village called Vestrianne which the lady created for personal whims. One day, however, Cinammon was called upon for help by a group of outsiders and after seeing how strange and different they were, she decided to visit the mortal world and explore its curious quirks.

Upon arriving in Tasyurai, Cinnamon quickly found that she could use her beauty, wiles and magic to seduce others into helping her. She used these fey powers to amass a loyal following who did her bidding and protected her from critics. Her followers ensured she lived comfortably, had nice food and kept her entertained. She particularly enjoyed using magic on her followers to mess with their minds, to her followers' equal enjoyment.

One day, while privately playing with the mind of one of her favorite followers, she realized she was not the only one messing with the person's mind. Through more magical investigation, she pieced together that a group of people, working for a larger organization, had entered the follower's mind and were manipulating it from the inside. Excited by this discovery, she used more of her magic to send this group, a unit of STATIC operatives, a message that she knew that they were in there and she wanted to join, along with a location to meet her, and was also able to deduce that her message was received. With her plans changed, she disbanded her followers and traveled too her set meeting place, where she was met by STATIC agents whom she weaseled and blackmailed into accepting her as a new agent.

## Personality

Cinnamon appears to everyone as a friendly, charming and kind individual who's physical beauty manages to be attractive without being intimidating. Her manner of speaking shifts subtly depending on the person she's with, often making her instantly likable to those she's around and as though she favors them most of all. This is all largely a front, however, as behind her charismatic persona she is highly manipulative, cunning and calculating. She is a master of deception and she always puts on a show of any opinions or emotion she wants those around her to see, making it nearly impossible to discern what she's truly thinking. While she is not unselfish in her kindness towards others, she rarely uses her manipulation to hurt others, always preferring to keep everyone's love and admiration after she is through with those she interacts with. She also detests violence as filthy and nonprofessional, so she always prefers to resolve situations by other means. When forced to it however, she is more than willing to have her allies punish any offender for real or persevered slights. Cinnamon's views are ultimately very alien and shaped by the strange nature of the Feywild, as traditional emotions and concepts like individualism or empathy are somewhat foreign to her. While she has come to understand the literal functions of these concepts and is able to mimic them highly convincingly, her actual views remain very unconventional and mysterious.

## Powers & Abilities

Cinnamon's defining powers are her mastery over manipulation. She is able to lie as easily as tell the truth and her eloquence and apparent sincerity make her highly convincing. She is able to talk herself into and out of almost any situation and with her additional talents in convincing others of her opinions and emotional state, what she is actually thinking is nearly impossible for others to discern, including her allies. However, it is highly difficult for others to hide these same ideas from her, as she is very perceptive and extremely talented in reading others. When her charisma and perceptiveness are not enough, however, she also has a wide variety of magical abilities which can charm or bend others to her will. She is highly skilled in manipulating others' minds, either by making them friendly to her, compelling them to follow her instructions, manipulating their emotions or using direct mind control. She is also able to use her encouragement to give physical strength to allies and harm to enemies. While Cinnamon is proficient with a rapier, she despises physically fighting, so she will often summon allied fey to aid her in combat when her present allies are unable to keep her protected.

## Trivia

* Cinnamon is the first character to appear as an NPC in Le Buddies Play D&D before later appearing as a PC.
* Cinnamon's name falls in line with other autumn nymph naming conventions, all of which are ingredients or plants commonly used during the autumn season.