New Year, New Me – Day 11

Lisette Focault – Human Rogue (Thief) – Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition.

Lisette Focault is the youngest daughter of the Focault family. Early on in life she found that her role in life was largely superfluous as far as the family was concerned. Her older siblings were the ones that were being married to secure alliances with other families or to strengthen existing ties of friendship. She was able to spend the majority of her time doing as she pleased. And what she pleased was sneaking off to play with the common children, much to the annoyance of her parents and the guards whose supervision she so often slipped. But it was while she was making friends that she discovered the difference in lifestyle from everyone else’s. As she grew older, she began to understand and see how their life made her lifestyle possible, and she made a promise to herself that she would do what she could to help return some of the wealth that was taken from them to support the ruling class by any means necessary.

While attending balls and other social functions she would often find chances to slip away and “liberate” small amounts of coin before slipping into the city to fill the church poorbox. She made contacts within the undercurrent of society that would move merchandise like jewelry and other small pieces of art that would not be missed or easily recognized by their owners. She grew to be very good at this, and she grew to be very bold – too bold.

One night while she was meeting a contact to sell some merchandise, a young nobleman by the name of Ricard DuBon showed up, accompanied by a Focault house guard whose gaze she thought she had slipped. He was missing a ring that was taken from his bedside table, a ring that looked very much like the one that Lisette was in the middle of fencing. She returned the ring to him and begged and pleaded for his forgiveness, explaining what she had been spending her time trying to do. To her surprise Ricard was supportive of her efforts. But, he knew also knew that he had leverage that could bring House Focault down in scandal should word get out. He promised Lisette that he would keep her secret and allow her to continue to crusade on one condition – that he be brought on board as her handler, giving her targets to acquire and taking a cut off the top of her earnings.

What he didn’t tell her was that he planned to use her as a weapon against rival houses in order to weaken them financially, or at the very least make them suspicious of one another. House DuBon could find its status propelled upwards if he played his cards right. The guard was sworn to secrecy on the matter as well, and would act as the muscle and protection for Lisette’s operations should she need it.