Race: Dryad
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 63kg
Hair: Naturally: brown. Actually, anything she's coloured it right now.
Eyes: Naturally: Orange/Blue Central heterochromia
Appearance
Easy carried grace, natural beauty. Eyes that shoot fire through their own pale blue skies. High cheek bones, but not harsh. Laughter comes easily in the precense of her plentiful wit. A life time of comfortable jeans prelude, not preclude, evenings spent in dresses cut down to here. Tall heels clicking, pink soles flashing, glitter and light. A laugh that rings, a voice that drowns sorrow and awakens the very spirits from their slumber. Different every time, capturing the depths of her surroundings, never lost in them, always a part of, and from, them. Unforgettable. Intoxicating.

Lifestyle
Cat has had to trade in the glamour of a high powered corporate position for her parents spare room in Auburn. Not exactly what she had planned for her life. She surrounds herself with art, life and light. She enjoys socialising with friends and strangers alike. Able to make friends seemingly instantly she loves to listen to other peoples problems and passions and seems able to hold a conversation about pretty much anything.

Background
Entered into a corporate 'partners' programme by parents when she was 12, who thought it was 'for the best', she received an excellent education courtesy of the corporation and a practical guarantee that on graduation she would be matched up with a suitable corporate executive or up-and-comer. Gifted in arts and languages, she is capable of holding a conversation on practically anything in practically any language, given enough time to study or the right software package, that is. The partners programme is question is set up so that (typically younger) wives and husbands of (typically older) executives get a generous pension on the death of their spouse based on years of service, children and grand children inside the corporation and the spouses pay grade. After 5, 10, 15, 25 and 35 years of marriage they also unlock percentages of inheritance from their spouse. Unfortunately, Cat's husband died of a heart attack six months after their marriage, at the age of 35. The coroner said it was a natural death, but rumours started that Cat might have had something to do with it and the corporation used this as an excuse to void her (already small) pay off. They gave her the option to re-enter the programme and look for a second husband, but, given her now tainted reputation, the way the corporation treated her, and a lingering feeling that she was not a lot better than a high class hooker, she left and returned to her roots in Auburn. Unfortunately, a Master's degree in Arts doesn't get you the kind of life style she's now use to and she's turned to less than legal means of supporting herself, with the help of some of the locals who know her parents.

Bod 2
Agi 3
Rea 3
Str 2
Cha 7
Int 4
Log 3
Wil 3

Edge 2
Resources 13 (65,000 nuyen)

Essence: 5.5
Initiative: 7
Composure: 10
Judge Intentions: 11
Lift/Carry: 4
Memory: 6

Active
Athletics skill group: 2
Influence skill group: 4
Stealth skill group: 2

Artisan: 4
Computer: 1
Perception(Visual): 2(4)
Pilot Ground Craft: 2
Pistols(Tasers): 1(3)
Unarmed Combat: 1

Karma earned/spent: 10/10 (specs on skills)

Knowledge
Alcohol(Wines): 1(3) (Interest)
Area Knowledge: Seattle: 2 (Street)
Art: 5 (Academic)
Bars and Clubs (Seattle): 2(4)
Literature: 2 (Academic)
Music: 2 (Academic)
News (Business): 2(4) (Academic)

English: N (Language)
French: 2 (Language)
Japanese: 4 (Language)
Mandarin: 2 (Language)
Sioux: 1 (Language)
Sperethiel: 2 (Language)

Positive
College Education
First Impression
Glamour (Racial)
Low-light vision (Racial)
Trustworthy (Skill Group)
Negative
Distinctive Style (Racial)
Pacifist (Minor)
Records on File (Shiawase)
SINner (Standard) (UCAS)
Symbiosis (Racial)

Cyber
Bio
Clean Metabolism
Dietware
Mnemonic Enhancer (Rating 2)
Vocal Range Enhancer

1 Month Low Lifestyle shared with parents at 33%.

Vehicles
Dodge Scoot (Scooter)
- Improved Economy
- Vehicle Sensor

Weapons Carried
Defiance Protector
- Laser Sight
- Gecko Grip
Weapons in Truck

Casual
Leather Jacket
A vast variety of outfits! (3500:nuyen: spent on 'clothing')

Also owns
Zoe: Moonsilver Cocktail Dress
Zoe: Moonsilver Scarf
Form-Fitting Half-body suit
Form-Fitting shirt
Vashon Island: Steampunk Petticoat
Vashon Island: Steampunk Corset
Vashon Island: Steampunk blouse
Vashon Island: Synergist Short Jacker (Ensemble)
(You get 25% discount when you're in the corporate partners program, alright?!)

Gear
Carried:
Sony Emperor Commlink with Renraku Ichi

On a run
One of:
Fake SIN (Rating 2) (Elle MacPherson), or
Fake SIN (Rating 4) (Moll Flanders), or
Fake SIN (Rating 2) (George Elliot)
20 Sensor Tags
20 Stealth Tags
20 Ammo: Taser Dart

Also owns
Trodes
Contact Lenses (rating 1) in numerous colours
Art supplies, sketch books, numerous knick knacks and bits and pieces. I can pay for these if needed, but couldn't find them in the rules (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Jim O'Neil (Small time fence) Con: 1 Loy: 1
Reika Hashimoto (Wife of Shiawase NA COO) Con:5 Loy: 1
Francis Wainyard (Art gallery owner) Con: 1 Loy: 3
Martha (Old school fixer, still working the shadows) Con: 3 Loy: 1
Frank Gambon (Owner of 'Anathma', a downtown night club) Con: 2 Loy: 3

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) 1000 (11 + 9) x 50

Ember's background
My name is Daniel and I stand on the brink of many worlds without really being a part of any of them. I was born to the re-emerged Penthièvre family and can trace my lineage back, through the French Revolution, almost eight hundred years. The magic in my veins, however, dates back to an even earlier age.

I grew up flitting between our estates near Quimper and Nantes with frequent trips to Paris and my family would like it if I was more grateful for the expense lavished on me. The fact that I was more interested in being with my Breton friends and once it happened, exploring my magic and its connection to the land, didn’t interest them in the slightest, particularly when I made it abundantly clear that I would not be manipulated for their political gains and the Game of Houses.

I will freely admit that I was a brat as a child and a prime product of the nobility. My gradual awakening, the voice of the Bright One in my dreams and contact with the more normal people of Brittany thankfully provided me insights that changed my potential path irrevocably. I rejected the lures of noble life for a wilder and ultimately freer existence in the Breton heartland.

My family refused to give up their hold on me entirely however; as a magic user I represented a valuable pawn in their games. Partly in rebellion but mainly because of my huge and unlooked for love, I committed the cardinal sin at eighteen of falling for an Irish witch. Despite the fact that she was an elf and also wielded considerable magical talent my family were disgusted by this pollution of their precious bloodline.

I have learnt since that this outrage was another pretence designed to throw their rivals off some scent and I know they still have their claws in me but I have done my best to limit their influence on my life and that of my family.

I was sent to study in Paris at the new magical programme at the Sorbonne but my heart was already set on Charlotte and our future together. I learnt what I could but always with the knowledge that their teachings were biased towards hermetic studies and could not encompass the magnitude of contact with the Old Ways.

I married Charlotte in fifty four at the end of my course and once she had completed her doctorate studies in Dublin. I am continuously amazed that I was lucky enough to snare her attentions and then lure her away from the Tir to a simple life in Brittany. A year later our first son, Gael, was born and he was followed in fifty eight by our daughter Ariana.

In sixty one we adopted Gisèle in slightly murky circumstances. Her parents were friends of Charlotte who fell to an altercation with the long arms of the government. We smuggled her away before the authorities could snatch her.

Finally in sixty five we were blessed with a second son Kei. To one degree or another, my entire family have connections to the spirit world and the old blood runs strong through us all.

My first personal contact with the shadows came in fifty seven through a friend of Charlotte. Although I perhaps hadn’t consciously recognised it, I think I knew that Charlotte was involved in more things than simple magic that my family wouldn’t have approved of. Then again political games and shadowy manoeuvrings are second nature to them but this was the kind of thing that upset the status quo. I ended up helping an eco-cell get through the Mist and assisted them in avoiding corporate forces. Since then I’ve peripherally been involved in several shadow ops where my skills with spirits were required. How my family found out I don’t know, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I also ended up working occasionally in their interests, sometimes confrontation needs to be avoided for the sake of my family. We live comfortably off their money and there is no real need for me to work the shadows for a living so I am usually able to pick and choose what I get involved with.

Eighteen months ago Charlotte was contacted about work in Seattle and we jumped at the chance to be a little bit further out of my family’s reach. The Stillwater community were recovering from a devastating attack and they were gathering various experts from around the world to help them rebuild and protect themselves from future aggression. It was my dealings with the Mist that interested them and so they paid for us all to fly over and arranged a temporary job on the Thaumaturgy course at Seattle U as a cover.

That job has since become permanent and I enjoy the new challenge of imparting knowledge to new students, even if I’ve been accused of being unforgiving of mistakes and of imparting knowledge in a haphazard manner. I have also been able to recruit some of the more likely candidates to assist the Stillwater Circle who have aided me so much in my magical studies.

Charlotte meanwhile has set herself up as a fixer of repute under the handle Argent and I have taken Ember as my moniker, being a small spark in the face of the Bright One. The children have settled in well to the schools that we found for them and are improving their English at a far faster rate than I. Whilst I wouldn’t call myself a professional shadowrunner I continue to dabble in that world alongside the safer world of academia.

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Gael Penthièvre [Elven Celtic Druidic Apprentice (Aged 17)] – My firstborn and the wildest of the family, we are not sure if he has been chosen yet, although he displays all the tendancies of Kournous. His affinity for the spirits is almost as strong as my own and it will not be too much longer before we need to take him home to finish his training among a real circle.

Ariana Penthièvre [Human child (Aged 14)] – I seem to be blessed or cursed with a wild family and Ariana is no different. She is on the cusp of adulthood and although one should not have favourites I suppose the fact that she was born human has forged a bond between us that is different from the others.

Gisèle Penthièvre [adopted Elven child (Aged 11)] – My dark one, we suspect she listens to the voice of Morrigan which was no surprise to us given who her birth parents were.

Kei Penthièvre [Elven child (Aged 7)] – The youngest of my brood we did not expect with Charlotte’s elven heritage that another would be born. He has not yet manifested any talent but I strongly suspect that it is lurking and will probably materialise at the time when it will cause the most difficulties.

Arnaud Penthièvre [Human Noble] – My father and scion of the great Penthièvre house. He is a manipulative bastard with all the morels of a devil rat. Of course very few get to see beyond his charming, gracious countenance and those that do often don’t regret it for very long.