Paizo Iconics - Seoni

Seoni is the second iconic given a bio by Paizo. Naturally... she's a bit of a girlboss and a Karen, who apparently is always frustrated with Valeros' impetuosity because she's a planner. She's also very secretive and introverted, I suppose. This was back when the bios were quite a bit shorter, and lacked much depth.

Seoni is described as explicitly being "like" a Gypsy, although her blue eyes and pale ash blonde hair isn't like anything anyone from India (originally) ever had; Gypsies are notably dark haired, dark eyed and darker skinned, even with Balkan European admixture over the years. Of course, saying that Varisians are like Gypsies isn't the same as saying that they are Gypsies, and Paizo have been strangely reluctant to give very consistent phenotypes to any of their human ethnic groups.

She's fine, I guess. What do you want? She's a sorceress, and she's supposed to be mysterious and maybe even a little creepy, but in a way that you're .... fond of? Attracted to if you're super simpy? I dunno. I'd never play her, and I'd never create a character like her, but she's not the worst one by far. She's a little too liberal bohemian "the kind of girl a creepy gamma guy thirsts after" vibe to her, but it's muted... her bio is only a couple of paragraphs long, after all.

Curiously, she's part of the "iconic group" that they used in the Rise of the Runelords campaign as one of the four pregens, along with Kyra, Mirisiel and Valeros. An overly girl-heavy group, no doubt. That said, the Rise of the Runelords audio play done by Pathfinder Legends doesn't use that group; it's Valeros, Ezren, Merisiel and Harsk. The six covers of the Rise of the Runelords modules have Valeros, Seoni, Merisiel, Kyra, Ezren and Harsk respectively, so I guess that makes sense why they went with that. Of course, they then did audioplays of Curse of the Crimson Throne and The Mummy's Mask, using the same four characters (although Kyra makes a substantial guest star appearance through about half of Crimson Throne.) None of these characters are on the covers of Crimson Throne, and by Mummy's Mask, they weren't putting iconics as the featured character anymore, they were using NPCs that featured in that adventure. (Of course, they were still in all the artwork in the module, including the "cover art" behind the featured character.)

Maybe the audioplay writers figured Seoni wasn't an interesting enough character to be able to write a radio play for. An introvert who's mysterious means she... just doesn't say much and therefore doesn't have a lot to do. All of the characters that they did use are ones that they could easily give plenty of dialogue to, and keep them very distinct in their characterizations. Broad, in other words. 

Seoni, in spite of the fact that she's described as pretty uncharismatic and kind of unlikeable even, of course has a really high charisma, because she's a sorceress, so she has to. Bit of a miss there. Her dexterity is also pretty good, and her wisdom ain't bad; her strength is ... well, like a thin little girl, which she is, I guess, and her intelligence is average. Decent constitution, but nothing special. Apparently she's one of the more popular ones for modestly attractive girls to cosplay, probably because her outfit is pretty skimpy, so all the guys give her a ton of attention when she does.  She's also one of the ones that got redesigned slightly from 1e to 2e, although in her case, it mostly just gives her Chun-li thunder thighs after the redesign, and makes her a little less dreamish looking, like she's high or in a trance. Also her added cloak looks a little bit less immodest and maybe a little bit warmer or something.