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Mary Bateman was born in 1768 in a slate-swept village of North England, the child of a washerwoman and a farmer who died when she was small. From a young age she learned to read signs the way others read scripture: the twitch of an eyelid, the pattern of a tea-leaf, the tremor in a voice. Markets and fairs became her classrooms; she accumulated coin by telling fortunes by candlelight and mending broken promises with poultices and whispered remedies. Charismatic and quick-witted, Mary learned the darker recipes of the apothecary trade as easily as she learned to charm a crowd. Where neighbors saw only misfortune or mischance, she saw opportunity — an inheritance to be hastened, a husband to be removed, a debt to be answered. Her hands, gentle in healing, became steady in administering the untraceable; in a world where courts often took one woman's word over another's, she turned superstition and sorrow into leverage. | |||
Rumor hardened into legend, and by 1809 the woman who had read palms in the market and sold salvation in the back rooms of inns had been stripped of titles and comfort and led into an even colder fate. Her end in that year was a public breaking of the private bargains she had struck: whether by rope, by flame, or by the village's final betrayal, Mary's mortal coil was severed, and the thing that had walked among the living did not stay dead. Since then she has haunted the places that shaped her — the crooked lane outside the churchyard, the keepers' rooms where tea was set down and never touched, the hearths where her name is still hissed. Sometimes she appears to those who seek counsel, a pale figure at the foot of a bed with eyes like dark coins, offering futures wrapped in rue and rueful laughter; at other times she slips into dreams to remind the living that fortunes can be read as well as taken, that a slip of poison may look like mercy, and that some bargains never are fully paid. | |||
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- Ghosts ~♤~ Leeds 1900
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[Social Symbol] |
| Character: [Name] | Nature: [] | Life: [] |
| Player: NPC | Demeanor: [] | Death [] |
| Chronicle: Leeds 1900 | Shadow: [] | Regret: [] |
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| ATTRIBUTES | ||
| Physical | Social | Mental |
| Strength ●○○○○○○○○○ | Charisma ●○○○○○○○○○ | Perception ●○○○○○○○○○ |
| Dexterity ●○○○○○○○○○ | Manipulation ●○○○○○○○○○ | Intelligence ●○○○○○○○○○ |
| Stamina ●○○○○○○○○○ | Appearance ●○○○○○○○○○ | Wits ●○○○○○○○○○ |
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| ABILITIES | ||
| Talents | Skills | Knowledges |
| Alertness ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Animal Ken ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Academics ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Athletics ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Crafts ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Enigmas ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Awareness ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Etiquette ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Finance ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Brawl ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Firearms ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Investigation ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Empathy ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Larceny ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Law ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Expression ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Melee ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Medicine ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Intimidation ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Performance ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Occult ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Leadership ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Ride ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Politics ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Streetwise ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Stealth ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Science ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
| Subterfuge ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Survival ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Theology ○○○○○○○○○○ () |
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| --- | ADVANTAGES | --- |
| Backgrounds | Passions / Dark Passions | Fetters |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ () | [______] ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
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| Acanoi | CORPUS | Merits & Flaws |
| [[]] ●○○○○○○○○○ | Permanent ●○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ●○○○○○○○○○ | Temporary ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ●○○○○○○○○○/span> | PATHOS | --- |
| [[]] ●○○○○○○○○○ | Permanent ●○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ | Temporary ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ | WILLPOWER | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ | Permanent ●○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○○○○○○ | Temporary ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
Sobriquet
The Yorkshire Witch
Appearance
Behavior
History
Mary Bateman was born in 1768 in a slate-swept village of North England, the child of a washerwoman and a farmer who died when she was small. From a young age she learned to read signs the way others read scripture: the twitch of an eyelid, the pattern of a tea-leaf, the tremor in a voice. Markets and fairs became her classrooms; she accumulated coin by telling fortunes by candlelight and mending broken promises with poultices and whispered remedies. Charismatic and quick-witted, Mary learned the darker recipes of the apothecary trade as easily as she learned to charm a crowd. Where neighbors saw only misfortune or mischance, she saw opportunity — an inheritance to be hastened, a husband to be removed, a debt to be answered. Her hands, gentle in healing, became steady in administering the untraceable; in a world where courts often took one woman's word over another's, she turned superstition and sorrow into leverage.
Rumor hardened into legend, and by 1809 the woman who had read palms in the market and sold salvation in the back rooms of inns had been stripped of titles and comfort and led into an even colder fate. Her end in that year was a public breaking of the private bargains she had struck: whether by rope, by flame, or by the village's final betrayal, Mary's mortal coil was severed, and the thing that had walked among the living did not stay dead. Since then she has haunted the places that shaped her — the crooked lane outside the churchyard, the keepers' rooms where tea was set down and never touched, the hearths where her name is still hissed. Sometimes she appears to those who seek counsel, a pale figure at the foot of a bed with eyes like dark coins, offering futures wrapped in rue and rueful laughter; at other times she slips into dreams to remind the living that fortunes can be read as well as taken, that a slip of poison may look like mercy, and that some bargains never are fully paid.
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