Emilia Leveva
"Emmy's always ready with a riposte, even when she doesn't have a sword on her."Emilia Dragomira Sergeyeva Leveva (born 27 Flamerule 1473) is a human adventurer hailing from the Cormyrean hinterlands. Originally from the Lev noble family in Cormyr, she absconded from their estate in the Storm Horn Mountains to seek adventure. She is now a core member of the Arrowheads adventuring group, located in Waterdeep.
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Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Apparel & Accessories
While adventuring, Emilia is typically clad in armour, considering the weight and discomfort preferable to being left vulnerable. While Emilia has experience with medium and heavy armour, and adventured for several years in semi-flexible half plate, her current set is comprised of mithral plate armour. In her choice of armour one can see the same conflict or compromise between practicality and opulence. Her armour tends to be practical first and foremost, offering protection wherever possible and ideally allowing some manoeuvrability, but is then decorated with intricate patterns, often incorporating a floral motif and the House Lev colours of black and gold. Her most recent set also features the House's coat of arms, demonstrating her loyalty to her House despite her direct defiance of its head. Underneath her armour she typically wears plain, snug clothing to cushion its weight and avoid contact with the steel.
Emilia has a dislike of the cold and cold weather, and so usually dresses in stuffy clothes designed to retain heat. In winter, she tends to wear multiple additional layers and covers up as much as possible. Conversely, the heat really doesn't bother Emilia - or at least doesn't bother her enough to surmount her modesty - and so she tends to wear her standard, stuffy clothes even in decidedly inappropriate temperatures.
Emilia additionally owns one or two very extravagant and impractical ballgowns and accompanying accessories, that she only wears on very special (and very formal) occasions. It is only for these 'ballgown events' that she drops any concerns for modesty and practicality and focuses entirely on noble extravagance, and may consequently look near unrecognisable. With how rarely such events actually take place in the life of an adventurer, few if any of even her close friends have actually seen these outfits, which otherwise stay well out of anyone's view.
Specialized Equipment
"Keep two weapons with you at all times: one revealed, as a deterrent; and one concealed, for emergencies."
Though Emilia was initially somewhat reluctant to acquire a magical weapon, fearing a reliance on magic, she later accepted it as a necessity for adventusing, and now uses a slightly unorthodox frost brand longsword. Emilia considers the frost brand particularly desirable for its useful secondary properties and because she herself dislikes the cold, making inflicting it on her enemies a compelling effect for her. Emilia's current longsword is forged from mithral and weighted more like a rapier than a traditional longsword to account for her lighter frame. However, she still occassionally needs to grip it with both hands to balance it effectively in a fight, strapping her shield to her arm to accommodate this. Despite preferring to 'fight fair', Emilia also conceals her 'lucky dagger' (in fact a +1 dagger) on her person at all times - doing so has saved her life more than once, such as in her duel with the 'Dragon King', though she would prefer not to admit it.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Education
Employment
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Although nimble by human standards, Emilia is physically weak, causing her occasional issues in melee combat. She can also struggle somewhat with improvisation, and doesn’t tend to excel when put on the spot unless she’s well-versed in a topic. Emilia feels uncomfortable lying and tends to do a poor job of it. Though she can be a very eloquent speaker when sufficiently prepared, she can struggle when things don’t go according to plan.
Likes & Dislikes
Emilia’s favourite colours are black and gold, the colours of House Lev. She has a notable sweet tooth and will also happily stomach bitter foods, but dislikes foods that are very sour or salty. Her favourite food is marzipan, to the complete confusion of her friends in the Arrowheads. Emilia is also quite fond of alcohol, with gin and red wine specially being favourites, though she is also developing a taste for Mintarn almond brandy since moving to Waterdeep.
Emilia, like most Cormyreans, is extremely fond of cats – like most Cormyreans she also considers dogs principally ‘working animals’, and is somewhat baffled that people in Waterdeep keep them in their homes instead of in a barn. Her passions for history and swordplay have also intersected into a fascination with historical or unusual swords, and she possesses a growing collection of bladed weapons.
Emilia is supportive of the rule of law, and disapproves of crime – the fact that some of her best friends are unrepentant thieves is a source of embarrassment. She is also quite self-conscious and doesn’t like drawing much attention to herself in most situations. Her greatest fear is public humiliation. Having grown up during the wars of 1484-86 DR and as an avid student of history, Emilia is also distrustful of Sembia, viewing it as a duplicitous enemy to her home of Cormyr despite the latter's conciliatory intentions and disapproving of its plutocracy, corruption, and bigotry.
Virtues & Personality perks
Vices & Personality flaws
Social
Religious Views
Social Aptitude
While she usually tries to conduct herself with tact and decorum, Emilia has a sharp tongue which she sometimes has difficulty controlling. While she is capable of being persuasive, she is not much of a "smooth-talker," usually appealing to facts and reasoning rather than attempting to sway people. Emilia is somewhat uncomfortable with the prospect of lying to people, and often does a poor job when she does do so.
Mannerisms
Hobbies & Pets
Emilia also has an interest in swordplay, and continues to practise fencing as a hobby. In addition, she enjoys studying and collecting rare or unusual swords, often showing off the most interesting finds to fellow weapons enthusiast Arafiel Selthi.
Emilia's one pet in her lifetime has been her cat Chestnut, who arrived as a stray when she was a young child and accompanied her throughout her time at Lev's Keep. Following Chestnut's passing in 1491 DR, Emilia has had no pets, although she would probably be happy to adopt any stray cat that somehow ended up visiting her room.
Relationships
History
"Sariel's one of the most wonderful people I've ever met. Gods, I hope she never hears this."
Emilia and Sariel met in early 1494 DR in a tavern in Waterdeep. Sariel's other friends were busy that night, so she decided to strike up a conversation with who she thought the most attractive person in the room was - which happened to be Emilia (Emilia drinking red wine also helped). They talked for the entire evening, and ended up spending the next day together as well.
Sariel kept in close contact with Emilia, and after the founding of the Arrowheads, asked the human to join. Emilia accepted, and has since been one of the core five members of the group.
Nicknames & Petnames
Sariel's nickname for Emilia - and the name she prefers to call her - is Emmy. On the other hand, Emilia does not use any nicknames for Sariel, preferring to use her full name.
Shared Acquaintances
As members of the Arrowheads, both Sariel and Emilia are close friends with Valna Mellerelel, Nathxena Fey, and Enna Liadon. They are also friends with Aym Twinhorn and Zelifarn, associates of the Arrowheads.
History
Emilia and Zelifarn were introduced to each other by their mutual acquaintance, Sariel Liadon. They quickly bonded over their mutual love of poetry, but were hampered by the fact that Zelifarn's lair is difficult to access at the bottom of Deepwater Harbor. For some time, Emilia was only able to travel there with Sariel's aid. Eventually, she learned a safe path to the dragon's lair, and is now able to visit him more regularly.
History
Emilia and Nathxena met when they were introduced by Sariel Liadon in early 1494 DR. Emilia later joined the Arrowheads, again after an invitation by Sariel Liadon. Since Emilia's joining, her and Nathxena have been on numerous adventures together - usually with others, but sometimes just the two of them.
Nicknames & Petnames
Nathxena often refers to Emilia as "Em". While Emilia usually prefers to refer to everyone by their full first name, when she is either very very casual or very very flustered she may refer to Nathxena as simply 'Xena'.
Relationship Reasoning
The basis of Emilia's and Nathxena's relationship is built on the foundation of the Arrowheads. While they didn't get along at first, them constantly talking to each other over the course of several months and Emilia discovering Nathxena's more intellectual hobbies has deepened their relationship a surprising amount.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
While Nathxena has some innate drow magic, she and Emilia often bond of the fact that they are the only two members of the Arrowheads not trained in magic.
History
Emilia and Esvele met at a formal function in mid 1494 DR. Although Esvele was unhappy at being forced to attend yet another function for her family, Emilia managed to brighten her day somewhat. They now occasionally meet at functions when the opportunity presents itself. However, Emilia does not know that Esvele's secret identity is that of the Black Viper.
Bisexual/demisexual
Known Tools
Calligrapher's Supplies, Chess Set, Painter's Supplies
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