AI-generated NPC sample
Immediate hookSister Maelin Ash
Relic broker, false saint, and keeper of the undercrypt tolls
Maelin sells fragments from abandoned shrines to desperate pilgrims, but every relic she parts with is chosen to move the city one step closer to a cleansing riot. She believes Saint Hollow can only be saved if its holy houses burn away their current bloodlines.
- Speaks like a confessor even when making threats.
- Keeps a rosary of iron keys from shuttered sanctuaries.
- Offers mercy first, then asks for irreversible loyalty.
- She hires the party to retrieve a bell-clapper from a flooded reliquary before the bishop's guards can consecrate it.
- A beloved local healer turns out to be one of the children Maelin has hidden from the cathedral census.
- If cornered, Maelin reveals the bishop ordered the plague pyres that made her a zealot.
