Mad Mary

Source characterization: Dragnacarta’s reimagining; grounded psychological instability

Unique Homebrew:

• Belinda speaks to her

Key characterization principles:

• She does not actually know things in a magical sense — she feels them in a broken human sense
• Her dialogue should feel like it’s coming from someone who has been awake too long and crying too much
• Lucid moments are more disturbing than fully unhinged ones — a flash of clarity about her own condition is devastating
• She loves her daughter in a way that has curdled from protection into something that smothers

Current narrative status:

• Session 1.5b - Gives Belinda to Theren

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Mentioned in:

• Session 1.5b – A Mother’s Grief
• Session 2.5a – Rumors, Tall-Tales, There Must Be a Strahd of Truth…
• Key Items
• Session 9 prep (superseded)
• Prompt templates