Name: Agatha

Age: 75

Gender: Female

Skills:
1. Advanced Combat- Agatha is extremely deadly with her weapons. Her knives pack a deadly surprise (see below) and have helped her slay many unsuspecting enemies. She is deadly with her katana and elven longbow as well. Agatha is an expert in sword combat, able to give even an elf a run for their money. It comes from leading a dangerous life. She is also extremely deadly with throwing weapons as well.

2. Exploiting others- This is what Agatha is truly best at. She can exploit just about anybody or anything. Agatha is real good as spotting weakness and using them to her advantage. She is also good at exploiting people in general, tricking unsuspecting pawns into doing her dirty work and then letting them take the fall for it. She is a smooth talker and a good actor and can adapt easily depending on who she is trying to fool.

3. Making various potions- Agatha is highly educated and knows how to identify whether a plant is safe to eat or whether it is deadly. She is also very good at chemistry. Using these skills she can create potions that do almost anything, from giving someone the feeling of being sick even they’re perfectly fine, knocking someone out and giving them the appearance of being dead, or a toxic poison that dissolves flesh and tissue.




Race: Human

Hair: Black and shoulder length.

Eyes: Dull grey

Home Village: Giliad

Parents: Ginien (father) and Maria (mother)

Siblings: None.

Character Personality: Agatha is coldhearted and ruthless when it comes to getting what she wants. She does not care who gets hurt in the process as long as she gets what she’s after. Unlike Lethira, Agatha’s goal is not world domination. Agatha is obsessed with wealth and money and that is all she cares about. Her voice is extremely deceiving. She speaks smoothly and calmly, no matter how much anger there is inside of her. She longs to find a cure for her illness. Agatha does everything in her power to keep her criminal activities from being discovered by the public and she maintains a reputation as an upstanding citizen despite her sinister nature. Agatha hates Fletcher, her gryphon slave and intends to dispose of him the moment she manages to cure her illness. The only remedy for Agatha’s illness is a potion that includes gryphon’s blood and that is the only reason she keeps Fletcher alive. She intensely hates having to use Fletcher’s blood in her treatment and the hatred has developed into a deep hatred for the gryphon himself. Agatha regards him as nothing more than a dumb animal. She detests children, seeing them as annoying brats, and thinks that men are pigs. She enjoys exploiting them for her own sinister purposes. She shows no mercy to her enemies. If you tick her off, you’re gone. Running won’t help you because Agatha has criminal contacts everywhere.


Character History: Agatha was born into a wealthy family. Her father was a member of Galbatorix’s court and had connections in high places. He led a secret life, however, running a criminal organization right in the heart of the Empire’s capital city. Agatha was spoiled as a child and always got exactly what she wanted. However she was also very well educated and her father taught her how to exploit others, knowing that Agatha would one day inherit the family business. Agatha’s father passed away when she was seventeen and it was then that Agatha took over her father’s criminal empire, which was disguised as a trading company . She quickly took steps to make the business more efficient and also began producing custom weapons for private buyers. This caught the attention of Galbatorix, who was interested in having Agatha’s company produce special weapons for the Empire. Her father had produced a line of lever-action crossbows (including the ones that Natagath and Evansgard use) and Galbatorix was eager to obtain more special weapons for his assassins. They made a deal. Agatha provided weapons to the Empire and in exchange Galbatorix overlooked her activities, as long as she did not go after his assets. With Galbatorix completely ignoring Agatha’s wrongdoing, she expanded her criminal and smuggling empire out of Giliad and into other parts of Alagaesia, all the while maintaining the appearance of an upstanding member of society. Then one day things went horribly wrong. Agatha cheated a band of Urgals out of some gold and in retaliation, an urgal mage placed a curse on Agatha, condemning her to a slow and agonizing death. The curse caused a cancer-like illness that seemed completely incurable. It was also agonizingly painful and affected her entire body. Desperate to find a cure for this rare and deadly illness, Agatha eventually discovered a remedy, but was dismayed to learn that it was only temporary and would have to be taken twice each year to fight off the illness. Worse yet, it required gryphon’s blood, which meant she would have to capture a gryphon and keep it alive. Sending her minions to the far reaches of Alagaesia in search of the elusive creatures, Agatha finally caught a break when her minions located a family of them living in the Boer Mountains. Only needing one gryphon, Agatha and her minions quickly slaughtered all of them except for one, a young adult named Fletcher, who subsequently became Agatha’s slave. Using a sample of his blood, Agatha was able to produce an antidote for her illness and as a side effect, the remedy seemed to stop her from aging, giving Agatha the eternal appearance of a young woman. However, she detested having to rely on it for her survival and came to hate Fletcher as well. Over the years, Agatha has taken part in many heists and attacks against the Varden to keep herself in good favor with Galbatorix. She sees the Varden as a threat to her and wants to destroy them. She also fears that the defeat of Galbatorix will result in the dragons making a sweeping comeback. Dragons are one of the very few things that Agatha truly fears as she has no way of defending herself from them. She has considered enslaving one for protection but capturing a dragon isn’t exactly easy and the king is unwilling to give her any of his own slave dragons.



Weapons:
1. Special knives- Agatha carries two custom built knives. They have a double edged blade like a dagger. Though they can be used just like regular knives, they have a deadly secret. There is a high tension spring behind the blade. With the press of a button on the hilt, the blade is released from the hilt and propelled through the air with the speed of an arrow. Agatha carries an extra blade for each knife in case the first one cannot be retrieved. The knives are built by Agatha’s trading company. The hilt is five inches and so is the blade, making the knives ten inches in length. The knives are dangerous to use because if not reloaded properly, the blade will shoot back out. Only Agatha knows how to reload them. The knives are carried in sheaths under the torso of her clothing or attached to sheaths on her belt, depending on the circumstances.

2. Elven longbow- Agatha prefers an Elven longbow which she acquired over the black market over crossbows. The bow is just a standard bow of elven design, though it has several ornate inscriptions carved onto it and is a very beautiful weapon. Due to its size, Agatha does not carry it with her when she is in a city, relying instead on her ballistic knives.

3. Iron grenades- Although Agatha’s company could produce iron grenades, she prefers to have them smuggled in from other lands. They are basically the same thing that Lethira uses. Agatha is always armed with at least two but she can carry four. They are heavy though so she prefers to only carry two.

4. Katana- A rare sword that Agatha acquired from a far away land. The blade is virtually indestructible and the sword supposedly has magic properties. This doesn’t matter though because Agatha does not use magic. The blade is about 30 inches in length.

5. Sword cane- Agatha sometimes walks with a wooden cane concealing a short sword. This is useful for quick defense. The cane has a hard stone ball embedded in the top of the staff and it can be used as a bludgeoning weapon. The sword part hidden inside is about fifteen inches long and can be used to turn the tables on would be attackers.

6. Shurikens- Agatha’s company produces these star-like blades for the Empire’s assassins but she carries several of them (usually around six) in a pouch on her belt. They have six points and are all razor sharp.

7. Poison darts- Another item specially produced by Agatha’s company. She carries some poison darts in a pouch on her belt along with a blowgun consisting of a reed tube. The tube is about a foot long and is easily concealed under Agatha’s robes. The poison on the darts is extremely deadly and can kill an adult human in seconds. Most animals and non-humanoids seem to be immune to it however. The blowgun and poison darts are used for assassinations or to quickly dispatch opponents.

Likes: Making money, winter, dreary weather, the Empire

Dislikes: Fletcher and the fact that she must rely on him for her survival, incompetent henchmen, hot weather, dragons, elves, children, dwarfs, the Varden, just about everything else

Weakness / Fear: One of Agatha’s biggest fears is dragons. She had no defense against them.

Animal Companions: None. Fletcher doesn’t count.

Character's Physical Description: Agatha is a very beautiful woman, something that helps her swindle and trick men. She is about five feet six inches tall and usually dresses in red or black robes. She has very light colored skin, a side effect of her illness, and right before she must take her next treatment, she begins drastically losing weight and body mass. Agatha has grey eyes and shoulder length black hair which is usually tied up in a bun, though she sometimes lets it hang loose around her shoulders when out and about. Despite being seventy-five years old, Agatha has the appearance of a twenty-five year old woman, a side effect of the potion she takes to fight her illness. She almost always speaks with a calm and smooth voice even when extremely angry.

Dreams for the Future: To rid herself of her illness, to get rid of Fletcher, and to run a successful criminal empire.

Reason for Dreams: She hates her illness and everything associated with it, and because being a criminal is much more profitable than running a clean business.

Alignment/side: Herself, though she enjoys doing business with the Empire.