Image Credits: frame Arkane; figures City of Heroes

Name: Faith Sedlow

Gender/Preference: Female, she/her, 'anything you like, if the coin is right'

Age/DOB: 20 in 1837; 18th day, Month of Seeds | note that she is definitely still alive in the 'modern' era in 1855, and does not look a single day older than she is in this image ^

Faction: Marked, Courtesans of the Golden Cat

Family: Unknown family, she has distanced herself from them in as much as she does know who her mother was, never knew her father; the girls (and later men) at the Golden Cat are her family; no known children (mostly thanks to prevention)

Height/Build: 5'8" / slender and exactly as curvy as needed, flexible and much stronger than she looks

Hair: dark red, straight and shaggy, kept to nape of neck as shown

Eyes: crystal blue, perfectly done with liner and a bit of shadow

Appearance: peaches and cream skin with heavy tattooing on her arms, shoulders, back, and spine; these tattoos do glow at times, mostly when she's making her semi-ritual potions and charms; while she does have 'regular clothes' you'll more often notice her in her courtesan style leggings and dress, corset and choker - she likes lacey things, furs, and leather in equal amounts; she does wear makeup but her lips are dark red already; her voice is her power, she can speak in whispers and screams, her speaking voice sounds like thick peach brandy

"She would become a legend, but allows others into her spotlight, enough to keep that word off the lips of her customers. A sensible thought, for someone who has not grown old with the rest."

Skills and Occupation: She is versed in the sensual arts, like all the girls at the Golden Cat. She won't say how she learned these things, nor when, but she is very, very skilled indeed. Faith will work up to blackmail with some who come through the place, but only while Prudence was the Madam there. She plays a long game with others, and doesn't want the establishment to become known for losing secrets, or gaining diseases... She's not necessarily an herbalist, because her skills with plants and poisons or toxins come from the Mark she bears, and she can easily feign innocence of the effects with batting her eyes and claiming they were 'just so pretty, don't you think they look good against the wallpaper'. Her true skills however also include the paperwork for legal messes, payoffs, bribes and extortion, pretty much every interaction you'd expect out of a semi-legal establishment deep in the capitol of the Isles. She can dance 'backwards in high heels', and more than dance with anyone that tries to harm her - she will swiftly take out any intruders and call it 'lucky that vase was above him when he tripped and screamed like that!' Also while she is apt with deception, she only lies to those who intrude or are attempting to do anything that harms her or the girls, or the business.

Residence: While she works in the Golden Cat, she doesn't need to sleep there, making more than enough coin to afford a nice place overlooking the harbor nearby, with a two-floor apartment that has access to the roof. Under that roof she has a shrine to the Outsider and a spot where she mixes her potions and works on items for the girls at the Cat.

Notable Possessions: She has quite a few items of clothing, but also a number of garden planters that hang outside her balcony and along the walls of her attic space. These contain exotic herbs and poisonous plants, both pretty and painful.

^After the events of the late 1830s, Madam Prudence wisely decides to retire, and brings several of her 'best' girls forward to vie for the position of Madam. While the other two girls are definitely popular among the patrons and experienced with dealing with the City Watch or Overseers, it is Faith that takes up the mantle of Madam there in 1844. However, she does move the other two into positions of importance, because she has plans to expand the place, perhaps across the Isles...

Magical Preferences or Abilities: She was not a witch and does not consider herself one now, even though the Outsider granted her his Mark a few years before she joined the Golden Cat. But magic comes very easily to her, as do bonecharms, herbs and potions, runes, and heretical books. While she does use the herbs and potions and such, she fully reads and commits to memory any important things in those books and immediately resells them - she knows some people who know others, import-export people, to get rid of them quickly and safely. Her skills with people mean that she hears a lot of rumors or dirt, which often lead her to 'take that strange tingling artifact off your hands', she'll work in trade for those items, but only with customers that she herself vets for security.

Shown below are some notes taken by observers...

Personality: Worth Every Coin! That's what everyone says about her, anyway! She is canny and resourceful, a much smarter woman than most people would imagine given both her looks and her profession. She is calm, attentive, coy, it is all very much an act for whoever is paying - if she's relaxing with her friends she likes to laugh and reassure, comfort those who are stressed, or help plan behind the scenes if there is a bigger event working up. Even if she is protective of her Mark, she is rarely visibly defensive, knowing that looking honest is far more important than being honest...

Likes and Dislikes: lace, leather, repeat customers, and being able to let loose with magical screams on the rare nights when there are no Overseers to ... overhear. She doesn't care for dock workers touching her, but only because they leave lingering smells, she wants to be fresh not fishy

Fears or Interruptions: Some of those Overseers pay for pleasures that will condemn them to the Void later; she never - ever - takes Overseer coin, putting them with other ladies (or gents) to avoid the very real threat of them seeing her Mark and knowing what it actually is