Cerridwen
| Cerridwen | |
|---|---|
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| Affiliations | |
| Occupation | Scholar |
| Organisation | The Chequy |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender | Female (she/her) |
| Apparent Age | mid-60s |
| Hair | Grey |
| Eyes | Blue |
The woman known as Cerridwen is a scholar and mage associated with the strange otherworldly library known as the Chequy. Little else has yet been revealed about her.
Description
A sharp-featured older woman with short grey hair and intense blue eyes, smartly dressed in shades of grey and black with a pair of silver-rimmed rose-tinted glasses she uses to study things that catch her interest. When she rarely manages to smile, they are brittle and brief moments of old joy lost to time.
Storytelling Hints
Cerridwen is sharp, serious and professional, hiding her emotions under a mask of refinement and quiet authority. She lets others speak their mistakes before correcting them quickly and precisely, never bestowing knowledge freely when it could be earned. She has little time for the foolish and the incurious, except when it can unlock a deepr mystery.
Anchors: Curiosity & Fortitude. The quest to learn drives her actions, but true understanding only comes through struggle and effort.
Chronicles
Under A Killing Moon
Atlas encountered Cerridwen after stumbling into the Chequy and baffling its librarian with questions. Cerridwen took payment from the young ithaeur and answered her questions, and found herself intrigued by the mystery of what these uratha had encountered so offered to look into these matters further and provide what assistance she could.
Cerridwen later made contact with the dream-haunted uratha. She revealing a little of the hidden history of Blackmouth - including the strange geomancy, the wounded nature of the world, and a little knowledge of the Rebirth and Victor Herbert Crane - and there is a subtle spacial distortion around Merritt which grows stronger toward the centre of the neighbourhood. She also noticed subtle skeins of fate connecting Atlas, Jerome and Michael, threads of destiny that something had interfered with, and the stain of that interference resonated with the wrongness in Merritt. Cerridwen muttered a word under her breath but did not explain it - Scelestus.
In an effort to learn more about the Black Trees, she joined the wolves in another expedition into the pit beneath the Goodwill, where she was able to drive the Tree there back with celestial fire. Doing so left caused her great harm and left her weakened, and it is unknown if the effects will last.
Atlas called on her assistance when the Broken-Winged Moth was finally caught and contained, and assisted in its willing final death while lost in the Empty City. She believed that the Moth was something from Outside the world, a non-thing drowing in sensation and being broken by it, and that the Empty City was some manner of Astral realm, but such facets of the world were outside her areas of expertise.
Connections & Opinions
- She is associated with the strange otherworldly library known as the Chequy, and has some degree of authority over it and its strange librarian, Melusifel.
- Cerridwen's name is known to some werewolves as 'the crooked woman' and regarded poorly by they. She may have a past history with werewolves that did not end well.
Abilities
Cerridwen is a mage, able to call upon supernal forces to alter the world. Her magic is strongly associated with the underlying Truths below the phenomenal world, though she also has some familiarity with the powers and phenomena of the Shadow.