Dittany Healer

Designed by Paul Andrew King

Fire  2 (dagger)
Earth 3 (cultivate herbs)
Water 3 (assess customers)
Air   4 (value goods)

Virtue : The Dragon (cunning and acquistive)
Fault  : The Fish Reversed (thinks money will buy happiness).
Fate   : Overlooking the Diamond (her obsession with wealth may blind her
to the prospect of true happiness)

Dittany is an apothecary working a stall in the northern part of the City.
She sells a variety of medicines - mostly herbal.  Although she buys most
ofher indredients she also grows some of her own in the small garden behind
her house/workshop.

As well as the usual items she sells more profitable items inder the
counter - more profitable because they are illegal.  Addictive drugs,
poisons, anything which where she can get a good price - especially where
the customers are unlikely to be too inclined to haggle.

Her goal is to accumulate a large amount of cash and then move to
Healertown where her sudden wealth will not be suspected.  At present she
lives frugally - well within the means of her open business.

Her main expense is the protection money paid to the Masks whose estate is
close to her house.  The Masks do pay off the local Watchers and supply
most of the more "hard-to-get" ingredients for her brews, so she does see
some return for her money - but she grudges every bead spent.

A short, slightly overweight woman of Mediterranean appearance, not yet
middle-aged.  She has black hair and brown eyes.  She is not quick - except
with her hidden dagger if she thinks her life or wealth are in danger.

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