[CHARACTER] Roswitha of Barking (companion)

Role-playing games Saga of Voluntas
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No numbers yet; I’m just trying to get the basic idea of who this person is. Subject to change.

Edythe is a scholarly nun who has been allowed access to the covenant

  • because she wants access to its library (she already knows most things that can be known, and wants to know more)
  • to bring the magi onto the path of righteousness
  • because the covenant is prepared to pay her convent a pittance, and convents are always poor

In template terms, this is a hybrid of the Female Scholar and the Mystic Nun (without a lot of mysticism). Obviously my model is Hildegard of Bingen, with a slight bias towards going out and doing.

Where the convent is should be established - close enough that she can reside there most of the time?

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I would suggest Keldholme Priory, as it’s a convent only about 8 miles away from Pickering?

3

At Yedingham (a short distance away to the east) is a priory of Benedictine Nuns.

How close do you want Mother Prioress to be?

Don’t forget some skill in music if you want to follow your model closely.

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Hmm, should probably be far enough away that when she says “I’m going to need some enclosed space at the covenant rather than constantly going back and forth” it’s a plausible thing. I make Yedingham only about an hour’s walk away.

5

Then Keldholme looks more likely. Fine.

6

The name got changed a bit and we haven’t yet released the character generation recording but Roswitha has ended up as a Female Scholar who has visions of Heaven but not the supernatural gifts to understand them. She’s genuinely religious though not to the point of True Faith.