Jaxar

From Thirdexalt

Jaxar is 40 years old, but she is a dwarf with a preternaturally young face and, from a distance, can easily pass as a child. She was dropped off here by the Guild five years ago to build up a base for action and pass on regular reports on Gethamane. Since then, she has deftly managed to avoid registration for the Dole. She is a simultaneous den mother, admired leader and scary outsider to her agents.

Jaxar is a capable blackmailer and good practical psychologist. Once those children grow to maturity, they will sink all the deeper into her power and, quite possibly, become permanent agents for the Guild.

A gang of juvenile thieves makes its clubhouse in an abandoned, junk-filled storehouse in the eastern sector of the Outer Ring. Most of the children come from middle - or upper-class families and think that their “Society of Thieves” is all a grand game organized by their leader, Jaxar. The children commit petty thefts, pull pranks and generally cause mischief.

The children know that Jaxar isn’t really a fellow child, but they don’t think of her as really a grown-up, either. Jaxar is a dwarf with a preternaturally youthful face… and she works for the Guild. The children do not realize that the gossip they pass to their young-old playmate goes to the Guild — or that exposure of their naughty deeds could disgrace their families. Jaxar watches their parents to gauge who she could blackmail through their children’s misdeeds. She expects to build a cadre of citizens in Gethamane’s upper class who serve the Guild to avoid disgrace.