Lisette Intimidating a rogue with her Stiletto
"If you've come here to buy or sell, do it. If not, you're wasting your time and mine."
- —Lisette Leerer[1a]
Lisette Leerer is an ex-bounty hunter, ex-bodyguard, ex-racketeer and ex-thief who currently works as a shopkeeper in Marienburg's Potion Square by day and works as an enforcer for an underground criminal organization by night.[1a]
Overview[]
Lisette is a tall, slim woman in her twenties, with dark hair and eyes. Her face, while attractive, almost never betrays any expression and many people find her impassive face and steady eyes intimidating.[1a]
She always favors black clothes of soft, high-quality leather and always has a slim silver-handed stiletto hanging from her belt.[1a]
She is softly spoken and blunt, never wasting words or movement. Everything about her says that she would be a very bad person to cross. Stories are still told about the out-of-town merchant who made unwelcome advances to her once - no-one saw her touch him, but he was unconscious for almost an hour.[1a]
On the surface, Lisette is no more than a trader in skins and leather goods who can handle herself better than many of the self-styled 'hard men' of the docklands. Many of the merchants and leatherworkers of Marienburg know and respect her for her efficient, hard-dealing business practice and the high quality of the goods she deals in. But in some parts of the city, rumours are whispered about another life. It is said that she is a member of 'the Guild we don't talk about', and a high placed one at that. Such things are whispered fearfully, with many glances over both shoulders, for the Guild has an eye in every house, an ear in every wall, and a harsh way with informers.[1a]
Apart from her business dealings, Lisette keeps very much to herself. She has a nodding acquaintance with her neighbours in Potion Square, and makes a regular donation to the Home for Foundlings - as much to prevent Sister Marianne from constantly badgering her as for any other reason. She will occasionally slip almost unseen into the Pelican's Perch and spend some time in a curtained booth with Lea-Jan Cobbius or Pieter de Groot, but she has no connection with the Worshipful Guild of Stevedores and Teamsters.[1a]
She has also been seen in the Moonbeam Inn and those with an eye for such things might remark that her visits always take place shortly after a back-room meeting of the Knights of Purity. Once every three or four days, Granny Hetta will visit Lisette's shop, although she clearly can't afford to buy.[1a]
Although finding proof will be an almost impossible task - and a highly dangerous one - Lisette is a senior member of the underworld body known simply as The Guild. She keeps all her dealings well-hidden, and works as a mixture of intelligence officer and enforcer, relaying information to the Guild and delivering warnings to those who displease it.[1a]
Rogue characters who disturb the everyday running of the seamier side of Suiddock - robbing premises or persons who are under the protection of The Guild, for instance, or discovering and attempting to foil Guild operations, may get a visit from Lisette; masked and dressed in a black cloak. She will issue a warning and deliver terms for restitution, often giving the offenders two days to comply. They will be instructed to go to one of the Guild meeting places - generally the back room of the Lighthouse Inn - and say that she sent them.[1a]
Wargear[]
Lisette wears a leather jack and leggings and carries about her a pair of knuckle-dusters, a rapier, a stiletto, an Amulet of Iron and venom for her blades, hidden in her left boot's heel.[1a]
