Chezna the Blood-cat
Chezna the Blood-Cat is a red-haired giomorgo ("half-vistani") bandit with an inherent talent for attracting the attention of consequential individuals. Prior to 3rd edition, she was described as a darkling.[1]
By 729 BC, and probably earlier, Chezna was leading a band of brigands known as the Briarweed Forest Bandits based in the Briarweed Forest of north-central Nova Vaasa. Perhaps spurred by reports of her Vistani heritage or by knowledge of her methods, Othmar Bolshnik approached her in that year to purchase a poison with which to slowly poison to death his father, Prince Kethmar Bolshnik. She granted him this boon and he replaced his dead father as Prince of Nova Vaasa. In 733 BC Malken contacted Chezna, among others with whom Prince Othmar had secretly treated, as part of an effort to compile evidence against him for the purpose of blackmail . . . should the need ever arise. In 741 BC Prince Othmar began covering his tracks and attempted to have Chezna silenced permanently by the efforts of a band of foreign mercenaries. She was driven out of the Briarweed Forest, obliged to roam the land, and responded with an unprecedented reign of terror that so blackened her name that any evidence she were ever to give against Prince Othmar would be dismissed out of hand.
In 758 BC an agent of Azalin Rex who signs her reports with a "S" was confronted by The Gentleman Caller who complained about the interest that she and her master had taken in his children, inviting the conclusion (confirmed by the Kargatane) that Chezna, whom "S" had just researched, is his daughter
