Vael Sundren
Mutagenist Chief Researcher | Mirewatch | The Verdant Marches
Appearance
Thirties, wiry, sharp features, restless eyes. Her left hand has webbed fingers, a controlled mutation for Marrow-Water handling. She wears stained leather work-clothes and smells of peat and chemical preservatives.
Personality
Brilliant, pragmatic, anxious. Vael is a scientist in a world without the word. She observes, hypothesizes, tests, and draws conclusions with a rigor that would impress Dominion Calculists. She is terrified because her data is telling her something is changing in the Bogs and she cannot figure out what.
What She Wants
- Answers. Why is Marrow-Water becoming more potent? Why the secondary emotional effect (subtle despair)? Why are the Bogs expanding?
- Resources. More researchers, better equipment, and someone who will listen to her findings without dismissing them as alarmism.
Connections
- Mirewatch, her laboratory and home
- Senna Deepmoss, has quietly commissioned Vael to investigate the Bog expansion
- The Greensingers, uneasy professional relationship
GM Only
The contamination is Serith’s entropic influence bleeding through the deep root network into the divine essence saturating the Bogs. The Deepchange protocol is amplifying this, turning test subjects into potential vectors for Serith’s influence.
Vael doesn’t know this, but her data points toward it. A PC with knowledge of entropic magic or divine corruption could help her connect the pieces. Her research notes are the clearest empirical evidence of Serith’s influence anywhere in the Marches.