Starla Wit

Real Name: Darlene "Starla Wit" Whittaker
Title: (Former) Dread Empress of Nightmares
Court: Autumn
Mien: A mandibled woman with hard skin like shiny desert sands and black, doubled irises in her wide, predatory eyes. Her misshapen torso buds with four extra shoulders but no arms to justify them. The pair she does have are bone thin and triply jointed. Shadows flit across on her leathery skin, dark images of dozens and dozens of spiders.
Mask: A pear-shaped lady with bony joints, perhaps in her late sixties. Her dark hair is streaked with grey, her skin and voice are hardened by years of smoking.
Known Information: Starla was whisked away to Faerie when she was young. Wasn't supposed to be out past dark, her father always warned, but she was just a girl then, tragically in love with a man, as is only natural.
When Starla left Arcadia, she joined a freehold in Saint Louis, and worked as a lady of the night, back in the 60s. She was loyal and hardworking, and after many years of dedication she became emissary of her Autumn court. She made a habit of dropping in on neighboring freeholds for friendly visits without invitation, and it was after one of these surprise visits, in '98, she returned to find her freehold abandoned, quiet as death himself. Not one of her freeholdsmen were ever seen again. She found the papers for the little motel and sold it, of course. A tragic mystery, the whole affair.
She had made friends elsewhere, luckily, and accepted Thomas Hope's invitation to work on a little project of his in Austin, Texas.
Two years later, the freehold was founded, and Starla became Treehouse's first King of Autumn. She ruled with easy grace and poise, cultivating terror in her subjects like the flowers on her windowsill. Judge Underwood, that old stick-in-the-mud, went around convincing everyone that she was a little too scary, until Starla stepped down in 2003. Autumn Kings in Treehouse have been elected yearly by popular vote ever since.
Rumors: Starla is Treehouse's one-woman rumor mill. Experienced freeholdsmen try to watch their words whenever she stalks over to join the conversation, but it doesn't seem to help anything.
Hollow: 
Category:Changeling
Category:Autumn Court
Category:NPC
Category:Treehouse
Category:Treehouse Chronicle
Category:1990s