Julia Drake

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Rogue Trader: Drake Dynasty
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Adam
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Character Level: 31,250 XP / Rank 8
Profit Factor: 43𝖕
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Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to drown you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.

Julia Drake neé Strophes is the youngest scion of the Strophes Noble family and wife of Acanthus Drake of the ascendent Drake Dynasty. A cheerful and headstrong woman, Julia disdains the normal activities that most young noblewomen of Hive Sibellus regularly fill their time with, a trait she blames on her beloved hard-headed father. Julia is an exception in some ways to the typical Sibellus noble outlook as she does truly care for her family and even does care about the people in an abstract, noblesse oblige way. When not a victim to social requirements, she alternates between brightly colored garments with long trails that swirl about her feet as she moves and more practical, almost 'rustic' clothes. Her bright, curled red hair is cut short about her neck and one of the few things she holds to despite popular fashion trends.

Background

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Julia is the beloved youngest child of Admiral (ret.) Laurent Strophes, the patriarch of the prominent Strophes family. A latecomer to the family, Julia is a good thirty years younger than her elder siblings, and the only one to be born after Laurent's retirement from active service in the Imperial Navy. As a result, she saw both a lot more of her father and a lot less of the Navy than the rest of her immediate family, leaving her with a less militaristic outlook and warmer regard for the Old Man.

Unlike Julia and her father, her mother, Lady Eaylene Fiorenzi, was not a native of Scintilla and grew tired (again) of the gilded cage of the spire when Julia was still young. Taking her to leave, she returned to her ancestral home on the wide-open plantations on Sozomen's Last Stand. Julia remains on good terms with her mother and, on several occasions, has traveled to visit her and take a season in the country.

With the Strophes' families close-knit gavelkind and her lack of interest in taking up a Navy Commission of her own, Julia long anticipated a day when she would take to take up the mantle of leadership for, at the very least, a small portion of the Strophes sprawling noble holdings. She learned the trade in a direct apprenticeship with her father, moving over the years from simply observing to acting as agent and surrogate when necessary and appropriate.

Her fortunes and path changed dramatically with her association and eventual marriage to the Rogue Trader Acanthus Drake of the Drake Dynasty. The prestige and power of the Warrant of Trade raised her social standing in society, while Drake's long absences left her as the de facto face of the Dynasty to the nobility and merchant houses of the Calixis Sector. To this end, she has set up her own household in the Spires of Hive Sebillus which serves both as the capital residence for Lord Drake and as the nerve center of Dynasty's Calixis Sector operations.

Her attentions have been further split these days by the arrival of her and Acanthus' first child, the young heir to the Drake legacy.

Trade Mission Effect

  • Well Connected: Julia Drake provides a +5 bonus on background endeavors involving influence, favors or Scintillan nobility.

Personal Statistics

Minion (Rare, Good)

WS BS S T Ag Int Per WP Fel Lty
25 32 27 31 35 45 40 35 45 61
Skills:
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Basic
Awareness, Barter, Climb, Ciphers (Rogue Trader), Concealment, Contortionist, Common Lore (Ecclesiarchy, Imperial Creed, Navis Nobilite), Disguise, Dodge, Drive (Ground), Intimidate, Lip Reading, Logic, Pilot (Flyer), Scholastic Lore (Philosophy), Scrutiny, Search, Silent Move, Swim, Wrangling

Trained
Carouse, Command, Commerce, Common Lore (Administratum, Imperium, Imperial Navy, Rogue Traders), Deceive, Evaluate, Gamble, Inquiry, Literacy, Scholastic Lore (Heraldry), Speak Language (High Gothic), Secret Tongue (Administratum), Trade (Socialite)

Expert
Charm, Blather, Scholastic Lore (Bureaucracy)

Talents
  • Weapon Training (Dueling Pistol, Rapier, Compact Laspistol)
  • Good Reputation (Nobility)
Gear

Weapons:

  • Best Compact Laspistol (S/4/-; 1d10+2; Pen 0; Clip 10; Range 12.5/50/75/100m; Reload Full, Never Jams, -20% to Find)

Equipment:

  • Extensive closet of high fashion clothing
  • "Lord Houfax" a Sozomen Feline