Appearance

Physical Description

She's thin, looking a bit on the weak side, but she moves with a precise grace and has excellent hand-eye coordination.

Facial Features

The elf is strikingly beautiful, sharp delicate features, bright green eyes, and full lips. She smiles easily unless given reason not to.

Identifying Characteristics

Her hair falls down her back when not tied up in a bun.
When visible, she has a nasty scar on her chest not more than a half-inch from her heart.

Apparel & Accessories

For Maelie's Airship see: Le Chasseur du Ciel [The Sky Hunter]
 
When at home or out casually she often wears linen blouse and skirts or day dresses. If she expects to be on foot and traveling between places she wears a blouse, trousers, boots, and a long coat.

Specialized Equipment

Maelie is trained with a few firearms (Pistols and Hunting Rifles replaces Short & Longsword proficiencies)

Special abilities

Her elf (eladrin) blood comes from somewhere in the Feywilds (although she has little connection to them herself) which gives her the ability to Fey Step.

Mentality

Personal history

Common knowledge:
Arriving from Castille where she apparently spent several years, she's come to look for opportunities in Novandria.



The Truth:
Maelie Arsenault is a thief known as Fox. Both a con artist that specializes in disguises and a cat-burglar who uses her magical talents for robberies. While wealthy, her interest is primarily in the thrill and challenge. Her targets are always wealthy and often of immense privilege, all the more challenging to steal from.
 
There are hints of a noble heritage, even just from the way she interacts with members of the aristocracy. She's let it slip a few times to people she trusts, but seems to have no intention of letting the truth get out.
 
Much of the reasons center on abuse at the hands of her mother, forcing Maelie into an education of conspiracies, schemes, and plots in order to continue her mother's machinations into the next generation.

Education

Common knowledge:
Widely travelled across Western Europa including Montaigne, Vodacce, and Castille with a very short stay in Avalon, most of her education has been experience on the road since childhood.

The Truth:
Traveling with her adoptive Aunt and Uncle they trained her well in adventuring and thievery. She is finding it difficult being on her own and often needs to rethink her approaches now.
 
Her mother's political teachings and machiavellian methods weigh heavily in her mind. The sharp and ruthless intelligence she inherited seems to have caught up to her as she delves further into the underworld of Novandria.

Employment

Common Knowledge:
She finds her own work, but refers to the substantial inheritance when questioned about her access to a fair amount of credit and wealth.
Arsenault Outfitters is her primary business that she runs with Lord Declan Shaeffer von Arden. They have successfully courted much of the nobility to support environmental projects and regulate hunting expeditions.


The Truth:
She has a large stockpile of wealth from her adoptive family's heists which she supplements with her own now.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Fox's first solo heist was stealing the painting 'Elemental Wars' by Vasily Vereshchagin. Unable to resist a quick heist from the famous World Faire, she did not expect to spark an international incident. Fortunately, she had fenced it to a local crime syndicate and the fallout was theirs to deal with. (October 1882)


Going for a smaller heist after nearly triggering a catasrophe, Fox teamed up with Rainbow and were assigned a dog-napping by her fence. The payout was generous, but they could not get the bonus since 'Yappy' lived up to their name and woke half the neighborhood. They escaped, Yappy escaped, and the client was satisfied that that would be the last time they would be awoken by the dog's late night tantrums. (November 1882)

(Note: Yappy is living free in the alleys of Novandria, stoking the fires of the pet revolution)

Fox pulled off a solo train heist, stealing two priceless works of art from Maximillian Roswell's painting collection. Another large incident was incited as the artwork was insured by one of the guilds who was now responsible for them and Rook activity across Eisen escalated. (January 1883)

Mental Trauma

Maelie lost her Aunt Kallie and Uncle Mika to some kind of heist-gone-wrong earlier in 1882 back in Castille. She still feels their loss and probably hasn't stood still long enough to properly grieve.
 
Her mother's abusive education weighs heavily on her now that so many of those machiavellian theories seem to be of use. She struggles between being trusting of others and keeping her secrets hidden behind a wall of lies and manipulations.

Intellectual Characteristics

Charismatic and witty, she enjoys banter and conversation, but is generally evasive if she feels someone is prodding.
She delights in the mental math of risk-taking whether it's a fight, adventure, game of chance, or heist.

Morality & Philosophy

To the right company she will gladly relate that she has never done an honest day's work in her life, but also point out that cons, heists, and thievery are hard work when done right.

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Bisexual

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She identifies as a woman, pronouns she/her

Taboos

Maelie is a devoted follower of Sephira.
She insists that everyone gets to make their choices in life, it is all simply a matter of consequences.
Frustratingly, she sometimes offers advice but leaves decisioin making in the hands of her friends about what they want to do.

Known Languages

Common, Elven, Thieve's Cant, Dwarven

Personality

Motivation

Mae loves risk, adventure, and outsmarting people. It can appear she's greedy because of her readyness to steal. In truth, she just enjoys living freely and sees the world as a game. The higher the risk though, the higher the reward, both personal and material, so she generally targets the wealthy.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"I'm not a common criminal! I am a professional!"

Savvies & Ineptitudes

A skilled adventurer and thief, she is precise and quick with her hands.

If there's one thing Maelie is horrible at it's books. Putting a book in front of her almost immediately draws a groan of discomfort. She will do anything to avoid having to spend boring amounts of time reading. It isn't that she doesn't like literature, she would just rather hear poetry than read it.

Likes & Dislikes

Maelie loves everything she can find from Montaigne. Dresses in the latest Bellancourt styles, cafés from Montaingese patisseries, and vintages of wine from the Painted Highlands and River valleys.

Vices & Personality flaws

The elf woman is prideful. A slight against her capabilities and skills usually draws her ire.
She can also be petty with snappy remarks and vain comments.
Beyond that her lack of self restraint means she is often a source of trouble.

Personality Quirks

She looks up and taps her chin when she's puzzling or scheming.
Alternatively, she taps a finger agianst her arm or thigh when she's worried or uncomfortable.

Hygiene

She takes good care of herself. Always cleaned up, hair brushed, and makeup carefully applied. Even when adventuring she is mindful of her appearance out of habit.

Social

Birthplace

Bellancourt, Montaigne

Current Residence

Arsenault Manor, North Ward, Novandria

Contacts & Relations

Romances:
 
Maelie is married to Sareena 'Cardinal' Loralen, a young half-elf bard she befriended after arriving in Novandria. Their wedding was held in the Temple of Sephira, Novandria in the fall of 1883.
The two have purchased a house together in the North Ward, a large manor now dubbed Arsenault Manor.
 
Sir Victor Orsei von Tressard courted through 1883-84 Maelie and she is as hopelessly in love with him as she is Sareena. She proudly shows off her eletech-bike and has made sure that just about everyone in Novandria knows they can blame Victor for giving it to her as a second courting gift.
The two are now engaged and to be married in the fall of 1884.


 
Profesisonal:
 
Raggash 'Rags' Undermaul functions as her handler in the Syndicate
 
Philippe de Luc is a Blade in the Syndicate who brought Fox in on a job.
 
Fox's superiors in the Syndicate seem at pains to attach a leash to the former freelance thief. While the organization has some leverage on her, they seem to not be used to dealing with somebody who simply doesn't need them in the way most of their underlings do.

Wealth & Financial state

Maelie draws on sources of wealth and credit that she explains is a large inheritance from her adoptive aunt and uncle. She is testing the waters of setting down roots in Eisen, so most of her wealth is tied up in banking accounts across Europa.
 
In truth, she has been left a treasure trove of profits from her's, and her foster aunt and uncle's, heists and illicit projects across Europa.

Family Ties

Aunt Kallie (Air Genasi)

Religious Views

She is highly devoted to both Sephira and Steyfano.
Particularly Sephira she delights in music, enjoys the freedom the night grants her, and hates any form of oppression.

Of Steyfano, she prides wit and guile as her weapons of choice. Rules are merely guidelines that you can slip between if you're clever. Let others get hungup by them.

Social Aptitude

She's witty and sassy, but holds herself with poise when among high society. She will usually let those of higher station take the lead first, but sometimes gets impatient and steps forward herself.

Mannerisms

When she's being social in a tavern, she's all smiles and laughter. Even when the chips are down, she always has something to say in return.

Speech

She has a Montaigne accent that is especially thick when she speaks Elvish.