Appearance

Physical Description

Nyssa is petite, though for a gnome, she is on the taller side. Being an infobroker, she is fit and ahtletic from her time traversing many types of terrain, and she is experienced in dealing with many kinds of climates, too. She is a bit underweight, but otherwise healthy.

Body Features

Nyssa has a

Facial Features

Nyssa has a cute, rounded face with long elf-like ears and a small nose. Her face is free of blemishes and she uses a small amount of make-up to enhance her natural cuteness as a way to increase her charisma.

Apparel & Accessories

Nyssa's typical attire is a green tunic with a darker green shawl over, leather gloves for archer, and black shorts. During the warmer months, she wears leather sandals that are laced up to her thighs, while she wears fur boots and black leggings with a white jacket during the colder months. Nyssa usually keeps her hair in a ponytail, but when its cold, she lets down her hair.

Specialized Equipment

Nyssa has several instruments with her. Her favorite instrument is the 7th Century-keyed wooden flute that she has with her at all times. She likes the soft timbre that it has over current flute models, and it's light enough that it isn't a hassle to play. As for her lute, she has several standard lutes at home, but the one plays more often than the others is the Vers Tannick III 6c Lute, a standard lute for Gnomes from Liyonne. It's made with oak wood and is usually fitted with bronze fittings.
 
Nyssa has many lyres she's been gifted from Elves, but her favorite comes from an elven village named Thaenabelle. The lyre is made primarily from Spruce with a Mahogany backboard. It uses silver fittings and has 16 strings, giving it a large pool of unique sounds that melds well with the sound of her flute. Instead of playing the lyre herself, she would often seek other bards to play the lyre so that she may play her flute alongside it.

Mentality

Education

Nyssa studied at the College of Aramoor, which is located in Aramoor City, Luxina County, Nouvelle.

Employment

Nyssa is currently an infobroker, gathering information from a variety of sources and selling them to those who need them. Nyssa used to be much more reputable, having a sense of justice attached to her work, but she now works free of morality and justice. The reasons for this change are unknown to her clientele and even her closest allies, but most would agree that the change was much more sudden than gradual.
 
During her time as an amateur infobroker, she was once an adventurer. Her time as one is not well documented, and most people do not remember her being one, but the adventurers' guild in Luxina does in fact have a record of her as an A-Rank adventurer with a great reputation. The guild also has a record of her final adventure, which is considered

Intellectual Characteristics

Nyssa is sometimes seen as being scholarly in her word choices or decisions. When confronted with something that challenges her intelligence, she would often logic her way to a solution fairly quickly, especially when it comes to music. Nyssa's understanding of tones and their mathmatical implementations are impressive even to scholars of music theory, though it is not something she actively studies or pursues as a career choice. To her, Nyssa would rather just play music with other bards or musicians for the love of the art.
 
Her scholarly knowledge is something she pursued in College, but it comes in handy when gathering information in the world. Nyssa often mixes her booksmarts with her experiences, which makes for a firm foundation of understanding when it comes to even basic things like flowers and their meanings, or showing genuine appreciation for prose and poetic writing. Nyssa doesn't see herself as "cultured" per se, but rather as someone who can appreciate a showing of culture, as someone who as praticaly traveled the world and back.

Morality & Philosophy

Nyssa's views of morality are somewhat skewed. While she does not take pleasure in other people's suffering or lead anyone to their deaths, she has little regard for other's mortality. She is just as likely to walk into a tavern for information as she is asking around during a funeral, but she has the decency to wait til its over or talk with people just outside of the area as to not distrub the peace. However, in the very rare instances Nyssa works with others, she is often excessively worried about the well-being of her companions, no matter how much of a stranger they are to her. This is something that some find strange and off-putting, and is only just another point towards her infamy.
 
If you ask Nyssa, she would simply state that ".. ethics can get in the way of innovation, but it takes a heartless fiend to kill a child." For her, scamming others or telling half-truths is where all journalism business ends up in the end. However, Nyssa has not completely fallen and still cares about others to an extent. As previously stated, she cares deeply for her companions, no matter the relationship, and she never leads others towards death. This odd and seemingly hypocritical nature is what makes Nyssa incredibly difficult to read, and it's what makes her so dangerous to many.

Known Languages

Common (Native)

Gnomish (Native)

Elvish (Fluent)

Dwarvish (Fluent; Conversational)

Personality

Social

Birthplace

Yek Datock

Religious Views

Nyssa doesn't like to speak about her religious beliefs. When religion comes up, she is the first to explain it away as something natural or scientific rather than something divine. Whether that means she is not religious or simply acting against religion is not completely known, though Nyssa has, on occasion, spoken favorably about Oghma. This seems to be more about her being bard than anything else.

Social Aptitude

Nyssa is very charismatic and known infamously as someone who speak only in half-truths. Nyssa is experienced in concealing her true intentions and hiding them behind a mask of friendliness and approachability. While her intentions are unknown, she tends not to lead others into death, nor does she ever give someone information that may lead them to their death. Whether this is just a facade or not, Nyssa does not want others to die, but does not always tell the truth or give the full truth. Thus does her reputation precede her as the "Unsung Wren."

Mannerisms

Nyssa tends to speak with an air of cheerfulness and playfulness. She acts cutesy to lower people's guard while speaking softly and without too many colloqualisms. This is to keep any possible hostility to a minimum and to keep the listerners engaged. Nyssa is very observant and can spot speech patterns while also looking out for anything she may be able to use to gain the upper hand in any conversation or deal. At a tavern, she might buy someone a drink so that they're more willing to say something, or in the slums, she might toss a coin for some information. Either way, Nyssa plays to any advantage she can get, but her manner of speech keeps people at bay and without too much suspicion.

Speech

Nyssa's natural voice is soft-spoken and with a slight gnomish accent, which accentuates her slight differences in vowel pitches. When trying to play her cards in a deal or to get information, she hides her natural speech by speaking more clearly, copying the accent of the local population, and increasing her pitch to sound more vulnerable and innocent.
 
Nyssa hardly swears, which is something she picked up when trying to change the way she speaks. She also tends to compliment others or greet others with a lot ofenthusiam, regardless of her intentions. A lot of her modified speech patterns when trying to gather information has changed the way she speaks normally, something she realizes but can't do too much about.