@epitaph200 So I have the back story for what I’m gonna call: Project Rapier (as I don’t have a name for her yet) I wanted to hear your thoughts.

She was born in France, into a shady but rich family. Her father was a banker and her mother was an alchemist (not the fantasy kind, though potions do exist where she came from) and she discovered a way to make a pristine and sturdier metal that looked exactly like gold. The banker was a greedy man, and suggested they exploit her discovery. As the alchemist was pregnant with their child at the time, she accepted the offer and started making false money.

She had made her false-gold more gold-like (aka softer and weaker) and forged them to look exactly like gold coins.

With their riches, they bought mines to get metals for her lab, and sometimes even scored real gold (though there wasn’t enough gold to hold them legitimately).

The baby was coming soon, but the mines were running dry, and soon the alchemist had little to work with.

Their wealth seemingly fleeting, they desperately sought after a witch who could help them.

The hag was shamed in the villages, so they had to travel far to her lair.

The pregnant alchemist and banker pleaded, asking for a way to make their metal infinite. The hag agreed, and gave them both the power to make the alchemist original formula of false gold right at their fingertips, in exchange if the couple took the hag into the town.

They did as she asked, but when they got there, the witch cursed them.

She created a pedestal, and started exclaiming the truth, revealing the couples forgery and counterfeit. For some odd reason (a spell perhaps?) the citizens believed the witch, and shunned the couple instead. Their various endeavors to acquire riches left the town without many resources, and although the town had plenty of money, the long trips for basic materials were tedious and long, and with the “short” trade routes going through badlands, it was almost pointless, as the caravans rarely returned with what they set out for, if they returned at all.

After the shunning, the witch cursed the couple, for as they were able to create gold, once they’ve hit the age of 71, they would have fully turned into a gold statue.

The couple shamed and cursed, focused less on their own futures, and made sure they had enough gold and enough time to raise their child, as she was coming soon.

The witch cursed both the banker’s and the alchemist’s families, so they too will be turned into gold. The alchemist’s grand parents perished almost immediately, with her parents not far behind. And the banker’s parents (as his grandparents were already dead) were immobilized, as the aurum execratione maledicta congessit (The curse that plagued the bloodline) starts at your legs.

The child was born, and her parents had everything prepared for her.

She had guardians to protect her when the couple die of the curse or other causes

She had enough money to go to the best private school and college

She had exactly enough to last her (if she spent it unwisely even) to about 80, although they knew she’d never live that long, as the witch had long been dead of natural causes, unable to reverse the curse.

The rapier grew up as an adventurer, trying to bring glory to her tainted name, and make her legacy one to be looked fondly upon not only by her kin, but even common family households.

So….what do you think?