NPC Focus - Valentine Lavoie

Valentine Lavoie

    Valentine Lavoie owns and runs a shop called La Boutique des Merveilles de Lavoie (Lavoie's Shop of Wonders). Many consider the shop to be a general mercantile, but occasionally strange and unusual items can be found for sale there. It's known that she has several automatons guarding the shop from thieves, but she makes sure to disguise them so no one is ever sure what the guards are. The shop is a favorite haunt of the wizard Kelwyn, and he makes sure to visit there when he's in town.

    Valentine is a softly spoken Creole woman that's known for her quick wit, sharp eyes and inexhaustible stories about her days as an adventurer. A fairly competent fighter, she decided that all of the fighting was getting to her and she wanted something else for her life. She married one of her former adventuring company members, settled down, opened her shop and recently gave birth to a son. She truly wishes to have a daughter as well, and her various conversations will often drift to the subject of motherhood.

    Valentine subtly adjusts her prices based on the needs of the customer, charging slightly more for adventurers and the upper class and less for the peasantry. Children are welcome in her shop at all times, and she happily interrupts a sale in order to gift them with one of the sugar crystal sticks she makes herself (normally for sale at 1 cp). She and her family live in a rather spartan space on the second floor of the shop, all the better so that she can tend to the needs of her baby boy.

La Boutique des Merveilles de Lavoie