Tim's Character Alessandro Vesconti
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 9:33 pmAlessandro Vesconti was born to a poor seamstress in the shadow of the Lucani family’s estate. As a child, he ran errands for the house, weaving through the maze-like streets of Vodacce with effortless grace, a shadow among the canals and courtyards. His speed and agility caught the attention of a minor duelist in the family’s employ, who took Alessandro under his wing.
The Bernolli style, with its quicksilver footwork and deceptive feints, suited Alessandro’s natural instincts. What began as idle training turned into a calling — by the age of sixteen, Alessandro was guarding minor scions of the Lucani family, escorting them through treacherous business deals, arranged marriages, and midnight dalliances.
But Vodacce is a land of intrigue, and loyalty is often more dangerous than betrayal. Alessandro found himself guarding Gianetta Lucani, a young woman destined to marry into a rival family to seal an alliance. Alessandro and Gianetta grew close — too close. Whether it was innocent or something more, rumors spread, whispers twisted the truth, and Alessandro found himself accused of dishonoring his charge.
To protect Gianetta’s name, Alessandro accepted exile. The Lucani gave him his life — a mercy, by Vodacce standards — but stripped him of all rank and standing. Armed only with his sword, his wits, and the name Vesconti (a family name claimed from his mother’s side, with no noble lineage), Alessandro now wanders Theah, offering his sword to merchants, nobles, and anyone who can pay.
Though he pretends otherwise, Alessandro still keeps a ribbon given to him by Gianetta tied to his sword’s hilt — a reminder of the price of honor, and the dangers of love in Vodacce.
The Vodacce Shadow in Avalon
Alessandro Vesconti never expected to see the shores of Avalon. Vodacce men like him — lowborn, trained to kill for noble whims — rarely left the borders of their homeland. But exile has a way of tearing up expectations, and Alessandro has always been quick to adapt.
After fleeing Vodacce under the cloud of scandal, Alessandro drifted from Castille to Montaigne, hiring out his blade to merchants too rich for their own good and nobles too foolish to survive without protection. In Montaigne, his skill with the sword — fluid, graceful, and deceptively fast — caught the eye of a merchant captain bound for Avalon, who needed a man comfortable with duels, dirty work, and courtly charm.
Alessandro took the offer, and Avalon offered a curious freedom: a land where cunning and flair could open doors even a Vodacce exile thought forever closed. In the rough alleys of Carleon and the misty streets of Luthon, Alessandro earned a reputation as a foreign swordsman with a sharp tongue, quicker blade, and an air of tragic romance that Avalon’s poets and tavern girls found irresistible.
But Avalon is no gentler than Vodacce. The nobility scheme behind closed doors, and Alessandro’s foreign birth and Vodacce training make him a useful tool — and a disposable one.
Alessandro plays the game of Avalon politics carefully, balancing his survival on the edge of his blade and the curve of his smile. He’s a hired sword, reluctant hero, and exiled romantic, haunted by the past he left behind and the danger that may yet follow him across the sea.
The Shadow Finds Canguine
Exile teaches a man many things. Chief among them is how to follow the scent of opportunity, even when it stinks of cheap rum, rotting wood, and broken promises. When Alessandro Vesconti first heard whispers of Canguine, he thought it was just another Avalonian tall tale — a pirate city built atop its own bad decisions, cursed by a Sidhe for its spectacular rudeness.
He laughed — then booked passage the next day.
Because Canguine isn’t just a nest of thieves and killers. It’s a place where no one asks questions about your past as long as you can pay your tab and draw your sword faster than the next drunk bastard looking for a fight. And for a Vodacce swordsman with a reputation that clings like perfume, no questions can be worth more than gold.
His Reasons for Coming to Canguine
On the surface, Alessandro claims he’s in Canguine to broker a deal between a Montaigne merchant prince and an Avalonian smuggler — a job that requires both charm and steel, two things he carries with him always.
But that’s not the whole truth.
Rumor has reached Alessandro’s ear that a certain Vodacce Fate Witch — one with ties to his exiled past — was recently seen in Canguine’s markets, buying up rare Montaigne alchemical supplies and asking too many questions about the Lucani family.
Whether she’s hunting him, or just chasing her own doomed fate, Alessandro can’t say — but he’s not leaving without answers. Even if that means walking straight into a pirate’s trap, a Sidhe’s curse, or the blade of a Sea Dog who doesn’t take kindly to foreign swordsmen stirring Avalonian waters.
The Bernolli style, with its quicksilver footwork and deceptive feints, suited Alessandro’s natural instincts. What began as idle training turned into a calling — by the age of sixteen, Alessandro was guarding minor scions of the Lucani family, escorting them through treacherous business deals, arranged marriages, and midnight dalliances.
But Vodacce is a land of intrigue, and loyalty is often more dangerous than betrayal. Alessandro found himself guarding Gianetta Lucani, a young woman destined to marry into a rival family to seal an alliance. Alessandro and Gianetta grew close — too close. Whether it was innocent or something more, rumors spread, whispers twisted the truth, and Alessandro found himself accused of dishonoring his charge.
To protect Gianetta’s name, Alessandro accepted exile. The Lucani gave him his life — a mercy, by Vodacce standards — but stripped him of all rank and standing. Armed only with his sword, his wits, and the name Vesconti (a family name claimed from his mother’s side, with no noble lineage), Alessandro now wanders Theah, offering his sword to merchants, nobles, and anyone who can pay.
Though he pretends otherwise, Alessandro still keeps a ribbon given to him by Gianetta tied to his sword’s hilt — a reminder of the price of honor, and the dangers of love in Vodacce.
The Vodacce Shadow in Avalon
Alessandro Vesconti never expected to see the shores of Avalon. Vodacce men like him — lowborn, trained to kill for noble whims — rarely left the borders of their homeland. But exile has a way of tearing up expectations, and Alessandro has always been quick to adapt.
After fleeing Vodacce under the cloud of scandal, Alessandro drifted from Castille to Montaigne, hiring out his blade to merchants too rich for their own good and nobles too foolish to survive without protection. In Montaigne, his skill with the sword — fluid, graceful, and deceptively fast — caught the eye of a merchant captain bound for Avalon, who needed a man comfortable with duels, dirty work, and courtly charm.
Alessandro took the offer, and Avalon offered a curious freedom: a land where cunning and flair could open doors even a Vodacce exile thought forever closed. In the rough alleys of Carleon and the misty streets of Luthon, Alessandro earned a reputation as a foreign swordsman with a sharp tongue, quicker blade, and an air of tragic romance that Avalon’s poets and tavern girls found irresistible.
But Avalon is no gentler than Vodacce. The nobility scheme behind closed doors, and Alessandro’s foreign birth and Vodacce training make him a useful tool — and a disposable one.
Alessandro plays the game of Avalon politics carefully, balancing his survival on the edge of his blade and the curve of his smile. He’s a hired sword, reluctant hero, and exiled romantic, haunted by the past he left behind and the danger that may yet follow him across the sea.
The Shadow Finds Canguine
Exile teaches a man many things. Chief among them is how to follow the scent of opportunity, even when it stinks of cheap rum, rotting wood, and broken promises. When Alessandro Vesconti first heard whispers of Canguine, he thought it was just another Avalonian tall tale — a pirate city built atop its own bad decisions, cursed by a Sidhe for its spectacular rudeness.
He laughed — then booked passage the next day.
Because Canguine isn’t just a nest of thieves and killers. It’s a place where no one asks questions about your past as long as you can pay your tab and draw your sword faster than the next drunk bastard looking for a fight. And for a Vodacce swordsman with a reputation that clings like perfume, no questions can be worth more than gold.
His Reasons for Coming to Canguine
On the surface, Alessandro claims he’s in Canguine to broker a deal between a Montaigne merchant prince and an Avalonian smuggler — a job that requires both charm and steel, two things he carries with him always.
But that’s not the whole truth.
Rumor has reached Alessandro’s ear that a certain Vodacce Fate Witch — one with ties to his exiled past — was recently seen in Canguine’s markets, buying up rare Montaigne alchemical supplies and asking too many questions about the Lucani family.
Whether she’s hunting him, or just chasing her own doomed fate, Alessandro can’t say — but he’s not leaving without answers. Even if that means walking straight into a pirate’s trap, a Sidhe’s curse, or the blade of a Sea Dog who doesn’t take kindly to foreign swordsmen stirring Avalonian waters.
