The Marquis and Marchionessa of Gwyngad

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The Marquis and Marchionessa of Gwyngad are a noble couple ruling the remote Avalonian province of Gwyngad. Though their domain is remote and poor, they themselves are wealthy and haughty and believe themselves to be one of the most important noble families in the kingdom of Camelot. 
The Marchionessa is a devout Catholic and believes herself to be a prophet receiving direct communication from God. When the Big Team arrived in Gwyngad, she hailed them as divine messengers in answer to her prayers for assistance, and asked them to help her with her daughter Alexandria, whom she believed to be a Changeling.
== Appearance ==
The Marquis is a big, muscular man, bald with an impressive brown moustache. He is stoic and leaves his wife to do most of the talking.
The Marchionessa is tall and willowy, with long blonde hair and the largest blue eyes humanly possible, as if staring into your soul. Both are dressed like kings and queens, with expensive silk brocade. 
== Powers ==
Though utterly mundane human beings, the Marquis and Marchionessa have command over a small province of Avalonian humans and its peasantry and soldiers. Since their soldiers - a whole thirty three strong, consisting of twelve crossbowmen, nineteen pikemen and a whole one knight - are currently embroiled in the war with Morgan le Fay in the far east, they effectively command nothing.
The Marchionessa believes herself to be a prophet, and has the remarkable ability to listen to what people are saying and absorb not a single word of it.
== Background ==
The Marquis and Marchionessa have lived in Gwyngad all their lives and are utterly unremarkable in their histories of rule of the area. Their most notable achievement, apart from the abuse of their autistic daughter, is the neglect of the castle's treasure, a centuries-old engineering marvel of a ballista once crafted by a legendary Avalonian artist and mechanic.
== Relationships ==
=== Alexandria ===
The Marquis and Marchionessa believe their autistic daughter to be a changeling, and treated her accordingly.
=== "Siofra", the Changeling ===
Their other child, "Siofra", is the apple of their eye and their perfect daughter.
=== Medea ===
The two are unaware of the witch living in the woods in their territories as anything more than a legend.
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Category:B-Verse