Fantasy NPC: Lady Illivaretha, The Unwanted Concubine

You can now support Shaper Of Worlds on Patreon.

Lady Illivaretha, The Unwanted Concubine

A beautiful woman, of hard to determine age—her skin is smooth like a marble, her hair lustrous and thick, her shape full, and yet her smile and her gaze hint at experience and maturity.

CR 5; 1,600 XP

LE Medium Outsider (devil, evil, extraplanar, lawful)

Init +9; Senses darkvision 60 ft., see in darkness; Perception +13

Defense
AC 18, touch 16, flat-footed 13 (+1 armor, +1 deflection, +5 Dex, +1 natural)
hp 59 (7d10+21)
Fort +5, Ref +10, Will +10

DR 5/silver; Immune fire, poison; Resist acid 10, cold 10, electricity 10

Offense
Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft. (average)

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 7th, concentration +14)

At Will—dancing lights, ghost sound, greater teleport (self and 50 lbs. of gear only), infernal healing, maximized magic missile (4 missiles), unseen servant (one active at a time)

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 20, Con 16, Int 15, Wis 17, Cha 21

Base Atk +7; CMB +7; CMD 23
Feats Combat Casting, Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Uncanny Concentration

Skills Bluff +15, Diplomacy +15, Fly +5, Knowledge (nobility) +12, Perception +13, Perform (sing) +15, Perform (dance) +15, Profession (courtesan) +13, Sense Motive +13; Racial Modifiers +10 Bluff when pretending to be injured or conceal her abilities as spells and sorcerous powers, +10 Sense Motive when examining or recognizing humanoid sexuality
Language Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.

SQ human visage

Human Visage (Ex) Lady Illivaretha appears fully human (with some hints suggesting admixture of elven or maybe even more exotic blood) to mundane and magical scrutiny, though she can manifest a pair of black feathered wings as an immediate action until she dismisses them. She resorts to that only in the most extreme circumstances, and is not particularly fond of flight anyway.

Notable Gear bracer of armor +1, ring of deflection +1

Lady Illivaretha has gorgeous body, witty and charming personality, and cunning mind—a perfect concubine called and contracted by a scheming sorcerer as a part of his intrigues. Her task was to seduce the king's younger brother and goad him into usurping the throne and becoming reliant on the sorcerer and his clique of conspirators... A simple task, that she knew was doomed to failure as soon as she laid her eyes on her mark, for she recognized what her employer did not. What others took for shyness was really an expression of the young royal's complete lack of sexual or romantic appetites. The sorcerer lashed at her with anger when she tried to explain it to him, thinking that she tries to weasel herself out of the bindings rather than accept that he made a mistake in the first place.

Now, she is stuck with a task that she can't complete, having a rather shaky position of a guest at a court that might be on a verge of a poorly designed political coup. She seeks a way of voiding her bindings and getting a vengeance on her binder. By the magic that conjured her, she can't act directly against the sorcerer, but she considers taking steps to subtly expose the conspiracy, though she obviously doesn't want for her part and nature to be revealed in the process.

To her surprise, she discovered that she actually likes the king's brother, a bookish introvert of quite virtuous spirit and he in return actually likes and respects her, just not in a way that would let her fulfill her original task. For now, she plays the role of a foreign aristocrat belonging to a minor sorcerous bloodline.