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labelledamesauvageIn the country of Galt, the Revolution that started after the Chelaxian rulers were thrown out, and the Chelaxian nobility killed, never ended. Forty years have passed, and still, each Citizen's Committee finds enemies to have beheaded, their souls trapped in the Final Blades that whisper down to sever heads. Even as a First Citizen is thrown down, his own neck under a Blade, another rises, keeping the bloody Eternal Revolution going, finding a new scapegoat. There are some who say this madness, this chaos, is unnatural... and that some creature wishes it to continue, a bloody wound in Golarion. The people starve with no one willing to farm, lest they be declared reaching above their station and sent to the guillotine; the current First Citizen stokes the fires of nationalism and blames the surrounding countries for the troubles of the nation, never admitting that it might be self-inflicted pain.
Juliette d'Aubigniy is one who believes this. She is a proud daughter of Galt, and her parents were forced servants of a Chelaxian noble. Her mother, Mathilde, escaped just before a maddened crowd, led by a demagogue who found her parents names in a ledger from that noble, burst into the small town they lived peacefully in to have them executed. Her father, Henri, was not so lucky, and his soul is trapped in a Final Blade.
Her mother, who had begin teaching her the art of song, and her father, once a swordsman for Baron Telmach, had started training her in their arts, and she took to them quickly. Her mother, seeking to escape the mob, left her daughter, only seven, in the town of Gralton in the River Kingdoms, then fled, hoping to draw away the mob. Juliette has no idea what happened to her mother, but would dearly like to know.
She grew up as a fosterling of the church of Calistria, and spent some time working as a sacred prostitute of the goddess, finding her skills as listener and lover, and her insight into people that she learned from her mother, to be excellent at helping with that. She was a most assiduous worshipper of the goddess in that manner, but the way of the clergy was not for her.
She took to the open road soon after, with the goodwill of some in the temple, and one man wanting her dead for his ruination. Her studies in the temple had convinced her that there was more to the Red Revolution that burned her homeland than simple madness - she believed in demons, especially with the advent of the Worldwound - and believes that one of them is secretly controlling the Revolutionary Councils as they rise and fall.
Someone, she feels, needs to do something. She is going to find people to help her save her nation from the demons - real or metaphorical - that possess it. If they are real, they'll be slain or sent back to the Abyss. If metaphorical... she'll work out what to do instead.
Juliette was raised in a temple of Calistria, the goddess of lust, revenge, and trickery. She has in her way taken the beliefs quite seriously - she never lets a slight go unpassed, even if it's with a cutting remark or, in one case, a song that drove the man who insulted her body (he said she was too buxom to be a proper Calistrian temple-worker) to financial ruin by composing a song about his, er, sexual lack of prowess, and then paying to have it sung in a dozen taverns. (He has sworn to kill her, but has been unsuccessful, mostly due to losing most of his money and being unable to pay anyone to kill her, and not being a skilled combatant himself.) The way she managed to do this got her a number of complements in the temple - all three of the Sacred Sting's interests in a single complex act.
She does have a very sybaritic nature, and believes in the idea of "Lead me not into temptation - point the way and I'll go there myself" as a guiding principle. But when she hears about more information about demons, she will move to find it and ignore her tendency towards self-interest. She's also a sucker for a sob story, and always willing to buy someone down on their luck a meal or a drink, and a child beggar gets some coin every time.
If there's a phrase for her behavior, it would probably be "wielder of tactical sexuality". She has no issues with the idea of using her sexuality in a way that distracts an opponent or in some other way gives her an advantage. She lost her virginity at 15 to manipulate a man, and found she didn't miss it at all. She's a good listener, excellent at comforting, but also able to be quite ruthless. In that, she's learned the lessons of Calistra quite well.
Juliette d'Aubigniy is one who believes this. She is a proud daughter of Galt, and her parents were forced servants of a Chelaxian noble. Her mother, Mathilde, escaped just before a maddened crowd, led by a demagogue who found her parents names in a ledger from that noble, burst into the small town they lived peacefully in to have them executed. Her father, Henri, was not so lucky, and his soul is trapped in a Final Blade.
Her mother, who had begin teaching her the art of song, and her father, once a swordsman for Baron Telmach, had started training her in their arts, and she took to them quickly. Her mother, seeking to escape the mob, left her daughter, only seven, in the town of Gralton in the River Kingdoms, then fled, hoping to draw away the mob. Juliette has no idea what happened to her mother, but would dearly like to know.
She grew up as a fosterling of the church of Calistria, and spent some time working as a sacred prostitute of the goddess, finding her skills as listener and lover, and her insight into people that she learned from her mother, to be excellent at helping with that. She was a most assiduous worshipper of the goddess in that manner, but the way of the clergy was not for her.
She took to the open road soon after, with the goodwill of some in the temple, and one man wanting her dead for his ruination. Her studies in the temple had convinced her that there was more to the Red Revolution that burned her homeland than simple madness - she believed in demons, especially with the advent of the Worldwound - and believes that one of them is secretly controlling the Revolutionary Councils as they rise and fall.
Someone, she feels, needs to do something. She is going to find people to help her save her nation from the demons - real or metaphorical - that possess it. If they are real, they'll be slain or sent back to the Abyss. If metaphorical... she'll work out what to do instead.
Juliette was raised in a temple of Calistria, the goddess of lust, revenge, and trickery. She has in her way taken the beliefs quite seriously - she never lets a slight go unpassed, even if it's with a cutting remark or, in one case, a song that drove the man who insulted her body (he said she was too buxom to be a proper Calistrian temple-worker) to financial ruin by composing a song about his, er, sexual lack of prowess, and then paying to have it sung in a dozen taverns. (He has sworn to kill her, but has been unsuccessful, mostly due to losing most of his money and being unable to pay anyone to kill her, and not being a skilled combatant himself.) The way she managed to do this got her a number of complements in the temple - all three of the Sacred Sting's interests in a single complex act.
She does have a very sybaritic nature, and believes in the idea of "Lead me not into temptation - point the way and I'll go there myself" as a guiding principle. But when she hears about more information about demons, she will move to find it and ignore her tendency towards self-interest. She's also a sucker for a sob story, and always willing to buy someone down on their luck a meal or a drink, and a child beggar gets some coin every time.
If there's a phrase for her behavior, it would probably be "wielder of tactical sexuality". She has no issues with the idea of using her sexuality in a way that distracts an opponent or in some other way gives her an advantage. She lost her virginity at 15 to manipulate a man, and found she didn't miss it at all. She's a good listener, excellent at comforting, but also able to be quite ruthless. In that, she's learned the lessons of Calistra quite well.
