Riko the Senile

Riko the Senile is (or was, her current status is unknown) a Beldam fortune teller and magician, who plied her trade in the woods near Kostravald. She became notorious for her accurate, if slightly deranged, fortunes, and her strange sense of humor. She became popular amongst the nobility of Karred as a seer, with many knights, nobles, and burghers travelling to visit her in her forested home, somewhere in the Gerrywald.
== Background ==
==== Childhood and Early Life ====
Riko was born in the City of Buorna, three or four years before the Crusade, to unknown parents. Hearing of the incoming crusaders, her parents, who allegedly foresaw that the heretics would not succeed in their attempt to defend the city, chose to give her to a passing family of Beldym mages, who would raise her, and teach her their craft. 
By the time she was 15, she had fully adapted to the Beldym way of life, and would split off from her adoptive family. From this point until her later life, little is known, aside from the fact that she travelled Joraje, helping the poor and needy. 
==== Later Life ====
In 599 of the Joran Calendar, Riko, who had lost her mind on her travels, returned to Karred, and settled in the Gerrywald, accompanied by a pig, solely for the reason of outliving it, according to herself. A woodsman named Machiel was the first to find her, and he spread the word of a seer living in the forest near Kostravald. 
==== Waldemar's Visit ====
Thus, word of her excentricity and the accuracy of her prophecies began to spread, until it reached the ears of Waldemar, the Count of Zelky Hora, who went to speak with her. It is unknown what was said in this meeting, though some theorize that she convinced him to allow other seers into his court, thus influencing him with their visions. A fringe theory is that she orchestrated the entirety of the Raven's Revolt, to avenge her family by ruining the duke whose grandfather had failed to aid Buorna in the crusade. 
=== Current Status ===
The current status of Riko the Senile is unknown, for when a nobleman went to visit her after Waldemar's visit, he found her cottage empty, and the pig-pen deserted. Some say she was killed by bandits, others that Waldemar kidnapped her, but the most popular theory is that she grew bored with life, and wandered into the forest, either to die, or to go on another adventure.
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