Anika Ytresc Iandescu
Anika Iandescu
A half-elf rogue.
If you were to pay attention to Anika Ytresc Iandescu, which you probably wouldn’t, you’d end up wondering why you’d bothered. Anika is a small half-elven woman, normally shrouded in poorly fitting versions of Orzhov livery. Her rounded face, seemingly made for charming smiles, sits in a habitual expression of sulky discontent. Her sickly brown complexion would quickly deepen to a rich bronze if she spent any time in the sun. But, of course, she doesn't. Her hands, smooth and well formed, frequently clutch or twist, and her fingernails are chewed to ragged edges.
But, if you cared about such things, you might also notice her soft, short black hair is charmingly cut to set off delicately pointed ears. And of course, it's those ears that form the visible legacy of an unfortunate breeding contract several generations back, forever removing her and her descendants from the family’s line of succession.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Although the outside world might see a seal-carrying member of the powerful and fantastically wealthy Enezescu clan, the clan itself knows Anika is essentially worthless. Just another cousin, unfit for breeding, without magical talent or brilliance, and too far from the core family line to be given anything important to do.
But she can't leave, of course. Once an Enezescu (even if you don't carry the family name), always an Enezescu. After all, the patriarch didn't get to the top of the Orzhov guild by letting any assets slip through ghostly fingers.
So find her something to do. How about we make her go rein in another unfortunate Enezescu? A leech on the family finances, a drain on the corporate assets, and an embarrassingly vampiric almost-immortal. (He didn't even have the decency to go ghost when he died.)
We've already dumped that weird loner, Simon, on him, and told Simon to get the finances under control. But Fabio requires more restraint. Simon wasn't enough. Throw Anika at him, see if she can make something out of that mess sometime in the next sixty years. Or so. Who really cares, so long as they doesn't embarrass the family?
Family Ties
It's way too messy. Definitely not healthy.
Religious Views
Well, her first ancestor is still around after ten-thousand years, a nearly omnescient, omipotent magical ghost with a host of disturbing and unsavory habits. Fortunately for her, bothering to meet Anika would be a waste of his (nearly infinite) time. He does, after all, have thousands of descendants. Some of them are even still around....
Social Aptitude
Highly observant, not very friendly. Occasionally persuasive.
Mannerisms
She wrings her hands, stares at the floor, and glares a lot.
Wealth & Financial state
Technically, she has access to near infinite wealth via her family. In reality, her cousin Simon holds the purse strings on her allowance, and he's a parsimonious tight-ass.
Character Location
Alignment
Unhappy neutral
Species
Honorary & Occupational Titles
The Honorable
Birthplace
Ravnica 10th District
Children
Current Residence
Enezescu Manor
Gender
Woman
Eyes
Dark Brown
Hair
Black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
medium brown (sickly)
Height
5 ft
Weight
No body dysmorphia here.
session 2; why, bureaucracy, why
ok. I know the Orzhov are pretty bad. We spend not only our lives, but our entire afterlives, performing empty rituals for gods we absolutely know don't exist. Preserving mad family customs and obeying thousand-years-dead progenitors. And we'll kill, die, enslave, and bring final soul-death to protect our right to be utterly miserable doing those things.
Yet, I'm pretty sure the Azorius have us beat when it comes to tedious, pointless activities. I mean, they have literally created an entire branch of magic just for organizing and filing forms. It's so bad, that they have hundreds of creatures spontaneously born of piles of unfiled paperwork that voluntarily spend their entire existence filing yet more paperwork (and occasionally reproducing in dark corners). I don't even know where to start with this.
And yet, it's another Orzhov that completely ruined my trip there. I mean, did he have to practically run me over with his stupid griffin? And then pretend like it was an accident. I'm sure he knows it doesn't matter. After all, apparently I'm now just a chambermaid. Tomik Vrona, yet another person to grind me underfoot. Or, rather under gryphon-claw. Why would I expect anything else.
session 1: yes, my life sucks.
Uncle sent me to give Megara a message today. She was just destroying a set of hand painted playing cards. Baldacci, a gift from Uncle Fabio. A very expensive gift. Just because she was bored! And then she wanted me to draw her bath. As if I were a servant! I most certainly am not. That is what the indentured spirits are for. It's not my problem she has trouble getting them to obey. It's because she's so obnoxious. Well, I suppose all the rest of Uncle's pets are even worse....
Uncle makes me so angry. He doesn't mean it, I suppose. He just doesn't think. I wonder if he was always like this, or if turning vampire did something to his brain? Hard to say, since he died about two hundred years before I was born.
Anyway, he screwed up the finances again. Simon say she has only 50 gold left until the end of the month. That's barely enough for him for a a single day. I'm sure he's going to blow it all at Pivlicino's tonight. Well, most of it. 48 Gold of it anyway. He never thinks about the rest of us. What am I supposed to eat? He has his pets, of course, so he doesn't go hungry.
Oh, vapor saints, I supposed I don't either. I have my pay. But it's the principle of the thing, I'm supposed to get room and board and clothing expenses.
Anyway, I've been sent on a stupid, wild good chase for him to find Tomik Vrona. Uncle wants to sweeten him for some reason. Law mage... Orzhov... maybe it's one of his debt court cases come up or maybe it's an inter-guild issue. I should find out. Simon should know....
I hate Simon. No, really. I really, really hate Simon. I hope he gets spattered with entrail juices tonight at Pivlicino's. I'll have to make sure he's closest to the pit. He had the GALL to claim I can't keep Uncle's spending in line. Well, he's no better! He thinks he can succeed by keeping the money locked up and tracking things in his little ledger books. What a joke. As if paperwork ever stopped Uncle from doing what he wanted. I'm aware of two new lines of credit from last week alone. All the merchants know the Evanescu family will eventually make good.
Here's the gate to the Azorius Stronghold. Uncle said Tomik was here for some reason. Gotta go
