Galadrina
Former Kourtesan, 63, Recon. Once the
most celebrated and powerful woman on Conzec Board, Galadrina was the toast
of Krania, and Head Mistress of the highly influential Kourtesan's Guild.
Then, unexpectedly betrayed during the Great Purges that swept through The
Quadrant thirty years ago, throwing its relatively benign leadership out
of power, she was punished and forced into exile on the Outer Boardz.
Taking up residence on Recon 3, Galadrina
kept in touch with many of her former pupils in The Guild. She began to
cultivate the psychic gift she had inherited from her mother, the mistress
of Laertes Kondra (father of Galadrina) one of the Quadrant's most revered
skolars, and Director when Galadrina was born.
Living in a flat above Pentacles
Tea Room, the tiny shop from which she ekes out a meager living by selling
cakes and reading oracles, Galadrina hopes to guide the Quadrant back to
the thriving and just society it once was. Together with her circle of friends,
she seeks to thwart the tyrannical ambitions of political upstart Axon Kronstadt,
and awaken the sympathetic members of The Nine to even greater perils the
Quadrant now faces.
Thoughtful and patient, yet sometimes quick
to anger at human folly, Galadrina is both mentor and mother figure to her
followers. Often she will disappear, sometimes for weeks, on some mysterious
errand. When she returns, it is almost always with crucial new information,
or sometimes with a fresh recruit to the cause in tow. A recent new recruit
is Irma Glindar, in whom Galadrina senses the seeds of a psychic gift that
may be even greater than her own.