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Caroline is the teenaged daughter of Lady Ekersfeld and has free rein of the community. She has the easy confidence of a young woman who knows everyone and gradually, she is earning their respect.

If she ever washes up she would make quite a leader.

When The Party met her she looked barely 15 and so, so very dirty.

Some say she looks a bit more like Garth than the late Lord Ekersfeld.

This is the adventuring party each with a partial ownership in the Little Shoppe of Curiosities.  Jaimus owes each of them a debt and respected each of them for the things they brought to him in life:

• Calliope (Jill) - Character Sheet - An archeologist-musicologist-appraiser who worked with Jaimus on the provenance of curiosities.

• Katrina (Barbara) - Character Sheet - A Katari gambler with an uncanny knack of winning money from Jaimus.

• Kustos-749 (Calvin) - Character Sheet - A Clank recently liberated from a cursed imprisonment.

• Willow (Dana) - Character Sheet - A druid... perhaps the hippy granddaughter of Jaimus McNulty.

Former Members

• Kaiser (Leland) - Character Sheet - A Katari kid next door who helped Jaimus by chopping firewood.

• Cosma (Griffin) - Character Sheet - A mystic Faun specializing in magics both deep and dark. She was called away to help with an urgent issue in Grellan's Grove.

According to elven scholars, the name was originally "Echoes Field" due to the echoing of the pit, but has changed over time to Ekersfeld. The present, Lady Ekersfeld doesn't believe that, preferring that the mines have been a family venture for hundreds of years.

The village, itself, if mostly built around the outside of the pit, but some have made their homes in the ancient chambers below. Further down are the iron mines, where many of the residents work.

The villagers may know more about the pit than anyone else, but they don't know much. The stairs leading below the mines are closed with a locked gate and no one ventures beyond it.

Still, they do know a few things about what's below.

First, there are bats living down there. Very large ones, which come out at night. For this reason, the villagers tend to stay indoors after dark.

Second, there is-- or at least, was-- somebody living down there. The old folks say their grandparents told them stories about the pit people, who used to come up to trade on occasion. No one alive has seen a pit person, but they were said to be small and strange-looking, but friendly enough. These "pit people" are actually a tribe of goblins, who do still live below.

The villagers don't know anything about the origins of the pit, but they have plenty of theories. Maybe the people were digging something up. Or maybe they just liked the darkness. Or maybe they were demons digging a pit to hell. In any case, the villagers don't believe dwarves built it. Dwarves do build underground cities, but a few dwarves passing through have told them it doesn't look dwarven to them.

The villagers don't know how old the pit is, but they believe it's at least a few thousand years old. They are correct.

A few out-of-towners have gone down into the pit over the years. Most of them didn't return. Those that did weren't down there long and didn't venture very far.

The villagers' shrine is dedicated to the god of mining or smithing.

The villagers don't process the ore they mine. They send it to a nearby mill to be crushed and smelted.

Uloo is a practitioner of the necromantic arts and in particular those arts that consume others to strengthen her powers. With here sisters, Akiva and Margosa they've been working on to secure a future for themselves.

Note Bene: Previously, I had a character named Lestheris Soldrei and we are combining her with Uloo because the story was growing too complicated.  You're welcome ;)

Vicious isn't just a syndicate rival; he is Katrina's former partner, a man whose ambition consumed him and drove him to an act of ultimate betrayal. Vicious is a brilliant tactician and a master of the blade. His signature weapon is a sleek, black twin-bladed katana, a stark contrast to Katrina's nimble, rogueish fighting style.

Vicious is sharp and angular in his features, with a pale complexion and eyes that seem to hold no light at all. He often wears high-collared, form-fitting black leather and steel armor that gives him a predatory silhouette. There's a certain emptiness in his gaze, a cold calculation that shows he's crossed a line from which there's no return.

Once, Vicious and Katrina were equal; two halves of a whole, a legendary duo in the Syndicate.

However, Vicious was not content with their partnership. He craved the power to rule the syndicate himself, a desire that grew into a vicious, burning obsession. His ambition drove him to betray the Kat, leaving her for dead. His actions are not fueled by passion or anger, but by a chilling, logical need for control. He sees emotions as a weakness and has purged them from his life, replacing them with a cold, ruthless efficiency.

After his betrayal of Katrina, he systematically eliminated his rivals, using a combination of cunning strategy and overwhelming force. He now sits at the head of a powerful crime syndicate, and his reputation for ruthless violence and cold precision is widespread. His ghost haunts Katrina's journey, as he represents the life she could have had and the man she once loved, now twisted into her ultimate nemesis.

Willow is the half-sister of Cosma and grew up in the somewhat functional Sablethorn family.