Mistress Faye Draven
Merchant Prince and College Patron
Mistress Faye Draven
Species
Human
Appearance
Mistress Faye Draven is a sharply dressed woman whose clothing looks expensive without ever appearing comfortable. She moves with the careful economy of someone accustomed to crowded countinghouses and narrow balconies, placing her silver cane exactly where it will interrupt another person's stride. Her face is narrow, composed, and heavily lined around the mouth from years of smiling at people she distrusts. Her gloves are pale gray kid leather, soft as candle smoke, and her pearl buttons are each engraved with a tiny letter from an old merchant cipher. She gives the impression of a locked jewelry box. The contradiction is that her immaculate posture conceals a pronounced limp, and when she believes nobody is watching, she leans against walls like an exhausted dockworker.
“Her voice is low, dry, and perfectly articulated, with the patient cadence of a lecturer and the timing of a stage magician. She rarely uses contractions when making a formal promise.”
Alignment
Distinguishing Features
A silver cane with a black glass handle shaped like a closed eye
Fourteen mismatched pearl buttons engraved with merchant house marks
A faint scar across her left palm from the Ashwater Collapse
A pronounced limp that disappears when she is angry
A habit of wearing one student's handmade paper flower inside her lapel
Voice
“A controlled contralto with a faint rasp, as though every sentence has passed through a locked drawer before reaching the air.”
Clothing
A charcoal-blue frock coat tailored with severe precision, a high ivory collar, black trousers, polished ankle boots, pale gray gloves, and a chain of small gold spectacles tucked into one lapel. Her coat is fastened with fourteen mismatched pearl buttons, each bearing a different merchant house mark. Her silver cane has a black glass handle shaped like a closed eye.
Body Language
Faye tilts her head a few degrees before answering, as if comparing someone's words to a figure in an invisible ledger. Her cane taps twice when she is amused and once when she is lying. She rarely points with a finger, preferring to indicate people with the curved handle of her cane. When genuinely frightened, she becomes perfectly still.
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