With only two and a half weeks to go till release, here is your character of the week!


All the character’s skills and backstory were created just by using the Runed Age’s Character Generation.

This week we have Giada Romero, a scholar from the romantic nation of Neatol.

What do you give someone who has everything? That was the eternal question for Giada’s parents. Giada and her younger brother, Nicolo, grew up in a vast mansions, with servants at their beck and call, waiting upon the young bourgeois children hand and foot. Giada’s parents came from old money and their little mercantile empire kept them fat and happy, but it wasn’t enough for Giada. Giada was always an angry little girl, who would grow up to be an angry woman, and nothing her parents could do could make her happy. Not even the priests of the Progenitorist faith had any idea about what to do with this troubled young girl.

It all came to a head when Giada was nine years old and had a terrible argument with her parents. She screamed that she wished they were dead, but no one took any notice as children often say things they later regret. When her parents were later found in bed with their throats slit, people began to take the matter more seriously.

A second cousin of Giada’s father became her and her brother’s ward, but Alberto didn’t want anything to do with the girl he, and the rest of the world, believed had killed his cousin. So he shipped her off to a merchant in the employ of Giada’s late father and so she became his assistant, learning the ways of the world from inside a shop where she could do little harm.

Giada continued to act out, becoming friends with a less than reputable craftman’s apprentice and the two young girls would trawl the docks and wharfs looking for men with money to spend and a liking for young meat. Her carousing and rebelling would continue until one of her “clients” stole the necklace she herself had taken from her mother’s still warm corpse. It was the symbol of her freedom and she felt strangely empty and lost without it.

For once in her life, she craved order and stability and so used they money she had earned throughout her teenage years and the stipend she received from her father’s cousin, Alberto, and bought herself an education.

She at first became a runologist, but she had little patience and passion for it. Preferring instead to broaden her social circle and increase her influence. She did make a name for herself and on her thirtieth birthday she was given the opportunity of a lifetime, to became a research assistant for a wealthy politician in Neatol. As a political scholar, she walked in the circles her parents had and it would be a lie to say she did not enjoy it immensely, using her power, privilege and knowledge to further her career while sabotaging and humiliating those around her.

Her attitude did not go unnoticed and her employer sent her on a fool’s errand around the world searching for a fake ancient manuscript. On her quest, she docked in Middelburg only to receive news she was no longer employed and no longer wanted. Now she sells her skills in politics and academia to any would pay her.

She has had a lonely life, although it was of her own choosing. When one is as wrathful as she and sees all the world as ignorant fools, one makes little friends. The only loved ones to remain in contact are her brother Niccolo and father’s cousin Alberto. She cares little however, for loneliness, as she only has eyes for money and the powers and privileges it brings.

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