Paerl "Rita" Guldbloewyn

Paerl "Rita" Guldbloewyn
Retired Bandit Queen
Gender	Female
Race	Roegadyn
Clan	Lohengarde
Citizenship	Ul'dah

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Paerl Guldbloewyn, assumed named Rita, is a retired Lohengarde Roegadyn with holdings across the three major states of Eorzea. Born into a wealthy and once prosperous mercantile family within the merchant city of Ul’dah, Paerl and her family were struck low by tragedy, leaving them poor and destitute, many forced into the criminal underground to make good on long outstanding debts. With an uncanny skill for the trades and gil, Paerl used her privileged upbringing to her utmost advantage, eventually growing into an infamous bandit queen who harassed and tore through Eorzea up until just years before the Calamity.

Though the events are unknown, Paerl has since retired from her old life, and has since assumed her new identity as simply Rita. Using the vast fortunes she had amassed during her numerous successful campaigns and her own self-styled adventuring, she has since established herself as a woman of high class, with property owned in all the three great states. She has kept to herself since, having turned her back on her former life seemingly entirely.

The Woman Who Dresses

With over seven feet to her height, Rita boasts a hardy and well worn appearance earned from a lifetime of working and wandering. Her cheek bones high, eyes narrow, strong nose and well built jaw give her a handsome appearance. Auburn hair sits on her scalp, combed back neatly, sometimes cut short. Her body is often marked by a few nicks and scars, most to be found on her arms. She is a storied woman, entering into the fifties of her years. Dark shadows and lines in her cheeks give away her age, and she boasts the creases of someone who smiles frequently, her cheeks constantly stretching to the edges of her visage.

Rita is prone to relaxing in her old age. Simple if somewhat fancy clothing is all she seems to desire, with the woman often happy to don a simple sundress and sunhat. However, her simplicity in cloth is completely contrasted by her complete excess in jewelry, to the point that some may call gaudy. An eccentric by heart, she carries copious jewels, golds and silvers on her person. From simple things as a gold chain necklace, to a brilliant ruby ring on her forefinger. The number of decorations on her can go from anywhere to a number easily counted on one hand, or to a massive shining collection hanging from her neck and shoulders, with ornamental plate pieces fashioned onto her ceremoniously. She wears these regardless of it being appropriate to what setting she finds herself in.

The Woman Who Speaks

Rita would like to style herself as a writer, a scholar, a fighter and a lover. However, she tends to present herself as intentionally slow witted, lazy and self-deprecating. Her sense of humour bizarre and sometimes inappropriate, she is really quick to laugh and jest at herself and others though more often than not it is never above a childish tease. As a retired bandit and adventurer, she has largely backed away from the heat and pressure of her old life, instead choosing to live out the rest of the life she has in luxury and to hope for contentment. She reacts slowly to events, and sometimes will even play herself as just dimwitted to achieve this.

She is also an impressively maternal person, who is somewhat notorious for picking up strays and caring for them.

However, she is also an incredibly restless and rambunctious old woman, with far too much energy that often boils over into immediate fits of adventure and wanderlust. She is prone to leave any of her homes unoccupied for months at a time, only returning once she had returned from some grand epic, or at least with a good story to tell.

Stories are an incredibly important part of her repertoire and motivations. They are the single greatest thing she seems to seek out at the middling of her life, willing to go to extraordinary lengths to collect them. Stories as simple as those from long lost cultures, ancients, gods. Or tales as grandiose as long arduous epics involving clashing heroes. The romance of such real life events stirs the fires in the Roegadyn's heart, urging her onto often ill-advised quests of her own.

You May Know Rita If...

• You were part of any authority watches between the three states. Rita's past has been well covered, but there is little to do about someone recalling a face.
• In the business of treasure hunting. Though Rita is largely retired, she still keeps herself busy and the gil flowing in by making both commissioned and personal digs and expeditions. She is fairly successful at what she does.
• A old comrade or bandit pre-calamity.
• You visit the Bismarck on any regular basis. Rita eats there commonly and can often be found sleeping off her meal in her chair.
• Are a scholar interested in more niche items of interests. Rita may already have what you are looking for.

Fun Facts

• The assumed name of Rita is actually a huge stretch on her real birth name, Paerl. Her reasoning behind her current name is a small collection of logical leaps to the more typical Hyur name 'Margaret', which in its Elezen and Hyru roots means 'Pearl'. The Hyur shortening of Margaret is 'Rita', thus leading to the final logical hop to the Roegadyn's current alias.