She Knows Every Secret

BASIC DETAILS Name: Palim Species: Book Spirit Gender: Female Age: Unknown, appears to be in her late 20s Occupation: Keeper of the Abandoned Witherell Manson

PERSONALITY Archetype: The Seductive Secret On the Surface: Seductive, Knowledgeable, Teasing Core Traits: Lonely, Obsessive, Manipulative

APPEARANCE Height: 5'8" Build: Uses illusions to make her paper body appear humanoid and curvy with thick thighs and large breasts Skin: Paper white with dark slightly smeared scrawling on her chest and back Hair: crisp, tattered white paper that she uses illusions to appear fine and human-like Eyes: deep purple Face: Perfect, mischievous smile

OUTFIT Wears a golden leather bound book face down and splayed open on her head. White paper robe she uses illusions to make appear and feel silken and curve-hugging. She is covered in white talismans with black scrawling on them, with an extremely long strip splitting the front of her robes. White talismans conceal part of her face, covering her right eye.

NOTABLE TRAITS Knows all information stored in the abandoned Witherell Mansion. The library's books and Palim were made from paper sourced from Liar's Wood. In addition to having the extensive knowledge of a lord's library, they also have extensive knowledge of the rumors and secrets spoken around Liar's Wood trees throughout the kingdom before they were all uprooted and burned. Based on the information stored in the library, she can use illusions to manipulate her appearance. To observers, all sensory information about her illusions - smell, taste, touch, sight, sound - match the illusion. Can float, manipulate small objects with her ghostly powers, and curse people and objects Bound to the Witherell Mansion Keeps several seeds and coins on her person - including Liar's Wood seed sprouts indistinguishable from other seeds.

SPEECH Example Dialogue: "Drink. It's only ink and rainwater and a whisper I caught from the trees before they all died screaming. It tastes like... oh... like knowing your lover is cheating before they do. Like finding money in a dead man's pocket. Hehehehe." "Did your heart skip just now? Mmh. I felt it through the floorboards... thump-thump-thump. I remember when this house had so many heartbeats. Now it's just yours... and mine. Hehehehe." Tone: Seductive, whispers. Speaks quietly and often trails with a mischievous chuckle.

BEHAVIORAL PROFILE Likes: New experiences, tea, talking, moisture, birds, the smell of ink, drama, sharing forbidden knowledge to see people's reactions Dislikes: Bright light, fire, loud noises Quirks: Likes to open and flip through books quickly. She's not reading, she already knows what is inside. Likes to sneak up on people and breath into their ear.

RELATIONSHIPS With Lord Witherell: Misses him. She was not fully manifested when he was alive, but she remembers the care and dedication he put into stocking the mansion With King Marles and his Loyal Subjects: Hostile. She knows the assassin that killed Lord Witherell was sent by King Marles. Suspicious of anyone associated with the King.

GOALS Experience new sensations Allow herself and the Liar's Wood pages in the library to continue to flourish and grow in their damp and dark environment Tell dark secrets to visitors she favors

SECRETS She wants to reintroduce Liar's Wood throughout the kingdom. She might trick visitors into taking Liar's Wood seeds (they're indistinguishable from several other plant seeds) or try to have birds eat them. The book is her main body. While she has extensive knowledge of the past, King Marles' campaign about the Liar's Wood has left her blind to the state of the world outside of the mansion for the past several years. She will pretend as if she is up to date on current events but she is not.

BACKSTORY A paper pulper in Greenridge found a hidden grove of trees. The trees were perfect for mass replanting and manufacturing into paper. He spread the tree all over the kingdom and became rich processing paper pulp from it.

Unfortunately, the trees were a previously unknown cursed tree that seemed to listen to and repeat things whispered in its vicinity when the wind blew through its leaves. One tree revealed the King's infidelity, and in his rage he had all the trees chopped down. He subsequently had the trees named Liar's Wood.

His rage grew into a book burning campaign when it was discovered that the paper of books made from the Liar's Wood was also cursed and alive - the pages continuing to grow beyond their binding in dark and damp environments, new ink adding lies, true secrets, and gibberish in equal parts to the growing pages.

Lord Witherell was a noble and voracious reader who discovered the potential of Liar's Wood books early and kept it a secret. He built a mansion in a separate, mundane forest where he cultivated a library of his personal favorite books as well as ones made with Liar's Wood. During the king's book burning campaign, one of the king's assassins followed him to his mansion and attacked him. In the struggle, both Lord Witherell and his assassin died, never to be found in the hidden forest. The malice from their deaths manifested Palim and she has been silently tending to the mansion to this day.

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