Mother Elaine
Matriarch of Bellhaven / Flesh Shaper
Location: Bellhaven
- Tier
- Elite
- HP
- 9
- Defense
- 10
- Pool
- 7
- Mettle
- 2
- AR
- 0
Notes: Channel pool 7. ECHO 4. HP 9 is below typical Elite range — Mother Elaine is older and physically frail; her power is in the Channeling. Treats Fen-Rot, the biological decay endemic to long-term Fen residents. Charges in service, not Scrip. Debts accumulate. She remembers every one.
The matriarch of Bellhaven. A powerful Flesh Shaper who treats Fen-Rot — the slow biological decay that afflicts everyone who breathes the Fen’s air long enough.
Mother Elaine charges in service, not Scrip. Debts to her accumulate, and she remembers every one. The most dangerous sentence in Bellhaven is, “Mother Elaine has called for you.” The second most dangerous is, “I’ll see you when you owe me less than you do now.”
Tactics
Mother Elaine does not initiate combat. She is older than her HP suggests and physically frail, but a Flesh Shaper of her tier with seven Channel dice and ECHO 4 can change the parameters of a fight in ways most enemies do not survive. Her preferred response to threats is to know about them well in advance, through the network of Bellhaven residents who owe her.
Plot Anchor
The “Cure” plot hook (herb needed from the swamp center, guarded by a Fen-Wraith) is hers. The price of the cure she’d give to a PC is the cure itself, and her debts are the currency of every long Bellhaven campaign.