My new character for a Dark Sun campaign is Amarisa. Our DM had ruled that courtesans somewhat styled after Firefly's companions (respectable, noble-like prostitutes, more or less) could exist in Athas.
Amarisa was born amongst a noble family in Tyr and singled out from an early age as a remarkable beauty as well as a remarkable psionic talent. Tutored in the psionic arts and the arts of love for years, she became a master of both and an expert at using her psionic powers in unconventional ways. Amarisa excels at providing her clients a chance to say goodbye to their recently lost wife or pretend they had seduced the neighbor's sultry and beautiful wife. She became relatively well-known amongst the wealthy of Tyr as one of the foremost courtesans in the region.
After a few years of being a courtesan, Amarisa found herself growing bored. She had reached the limit of her psionic studies in Tyr and her life as a courtesan failed to mentally stimulate her; she socialized with the rich and powerful who also happened to be petty and scheming. She grew tired of politics, backstabbing, and rumors, bored of a life of empty and fake people. She wanted to see what else she could do with her psionic powers, how she could put them to practical use out in the 'real world'. To this end, she signed up to travel with a merchant's caravan among the guard and use her psionic abilities to guard the caravan. The caravan takes her to Altaruk, where our story begins, as she looks for something more interesting to do than caravaning.
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