The Riven Lands

A thin, sharp-featured human woman with ink-stained fingers and small burn scars covering her hands from metalworking accidents. Wears multiple pairs of spectacles on chains for different magnification levels. Her leather satchel contains an array of precision tools that look like surgical instruments. Despite her criminal status, she maintains impeccable grooming as a point of professional pride, though silver stains on her clothing betray her true occupation.

A perfectionist obsessed with creating flawless forgeries that she considers superior to legitimate currency. Paranoid about infiltration and betrayal, she tests new recruits through increasingly dangerous assignments to prove their loyalty. Takes intellectual pride in outwitting guild investigators and considers each successful forgery a work of art. Deeply resents being forced into criminality but has embraced it as proof of her superior talents.

Daughter of the mint master, Thessa grew up surrounded by the machinery and techniques of legitimate coin production. Her mathematical brilliance and artistic talent made her a prodigy at metalworking, but she discovered her true gift lay in subtle imperfections that made counterfeits undetectable. When her father discovered her side business, he disowned her to protect the family name. Forced underground, literally and figuratively, she built a network of tunnels for distributing perfect counterfeit currency while evading the guild enforcers who once knew her as a respectable craftswoman.