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Mudlark
'Mudlark'
| Name | Mudlark |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Occupation | Suspected a brigand by most accounts—and hence her moniker. |
| Age | Her brow is lined with worry. |
| Race | Man |
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| Residence | Roving through woodlands, only at rare times spotted behind Bree's hedge. |
| Kinship | Gossiped to be with some bands of scoundrels in the wood. |
| Outward Appearance | Here walks a hardy woman with haunches like a deer and gunge-plastered boots. Her travel-stained hood is dark and shadows her face; when thrown back, her hair is bark coloured, and her features are dour and rough hewn. Set in her face are a pair of stony grey eyes, grim and restless.
There is no gleam of gold or glittering thing about her save these: her sword, the tools of her charge, a stellate brooch of silver upon her cloak, and many buckles on a bulging rucksack. |
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Background
'Mudlark'
Her right name and motives are well-hidden, but townsfolk (and I, for lack of a better name) call her Mudlark, for her boots ever stained with mud and the lingering notion, true or false, that she is a thief. She turns her head at this name and calls herself by it to strangers—most queer! Bill Thistle claims she calls herself a 'right Jill'', and perhaps she is, but duty demands I see.
Woodsmen say that a figure of similar shape (though hard to glean in the dark), walks through the untamed wilds on foot—she is perhaps a toll-taker, by their account—and stalks in the shadow of the old ruins.
—Watcher Gil Rosecane, 'Report for Harvestmath 2, 3016'
| Friends | But few have gained her friendship. |
|---|---|
| Relatives | — |
| Rivals/Enemies | Trespassers and raiders, and perhaps the folk of Bree-town. |
| Loves | A warm fire, chance comforts, and gifts. The queer monogram on some of her things: HTRD. |
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| Hates | Prolonged stays, gabby townsfolk, being watched, and restless nights. |
| Motivation | Continuation; to remain in obscurity. |
| Quotes | 'Walk smartly.' |
