Mindale Sisters

**Ariadne, Persephone and Druscilla Mindale** are a set of identical half-elf triplet sorcerors possessing mysterious and powerful magic.

## Biography

### Early Life

Orphaned at birth, Ariadne, Persy and Dru grew up in an orphanage built in the outskirts of a small hamlet deep in the Suukian Stena mountain range. Despite growing up in Suuk, the girls were taught by the Sisters of the Right Hand to be well-spoken - with lessons taught in Common, Elvish and Orcish.

The girls grew up with no knowledge of their parentage, nor the origin of their vast innate magic. According to the Sisters who raised them, the girls were abandoned at birth. Rumours of how the sisters ended up at the orphanage circulated amongst the other children, whilst the girls remained insular and made little effort to socialise outside of themselves. Eventually, the girls ran away from the orphanage in hopes of finding out the truth of their parentage.

### Search for Their Birth Parents

The girls' pieced-together clues based on the rumours of their origins led them on a trail to Khana in search of the organised resistance group they became hopeful could lead them in the right direction to finding their birth parents. Their use of magic proved useful to the group, whom they agreed to aid in exchange for any information they could find using their resources.

## Personalities

Ariadne, Persephone and Druscilla share a hivemind, meaning they often act in unision and behave as if they are one person. They always adopt identical outfits and prefer to dress in gothic attire. The psionic merger between the three is also connected to their magic, forcing them to remain in close proximity to one another and they grow extremely anxious if separated. They all seem to be resentful of their abandonment as infants and have a rebellious streak, striking out on their own and standing against Khanian forces. Though they steer clear of moralising, they have a sense of what is right and emplore to do their best, even if they come across as sardonic and calculating. In spite of this, they are anxious of their powerful magic, as they do not fully understand it.

Whilst the hivemind amalgamates their consciousnesses, the sisters do still possess individual personalities.

### Ariadne

Ariadne often takes charge and acts as 'big sister' to her siblings, though their ages relative to one another are unknown. Within their triad, Ariadne considers herself the intellect and is most often deep in thought. Compared to her sisters, she is far more concerned with the future and regularly clashes with Druscilla.

### Persephone

Persephone is the effectual middle child of the three, often finding herself caught between her two sisters. Her role as mediator often sees her forced into being the defacto leader, due to the extent her sisters disagree and she is notably more concerned with the external world than the other two are. Persy is in constant discussion with her sisters in an effort to find compromise.

### Druscilla

Druscilla is perhaps the most unique of the three and the most insistent on maintaining an individual identity. She is more concerned with herself and her own desires, and most often acts on impulse. Within their unified trinity, Dru regularly challenges Ariadne's measured reason and is usually the one to ignite conflict. She is a daydreamer, guided by her passions and beliefs and because of this is more impressionable than her sisters.

All three sisters have demonstrated more individuality over time, particularly since the onset of puberty. As their own identities form, so does their potential to resist the hivemind.

## Abilities

Though well-educated, the Mindale sisters are not as well-versed in the magical arts as many of their contemporaries. Though familiar with a good number of spells, the sisters continue to advance their awareness of the mystic arts in an effort to better control their innate magic. What they lack in knowledge, however, they make up for in power.

At full strength, the sisters are able to flexibly cast spells under their own power, even foregoing incantation. They possess the ability to combine their magical strength to duplicate the effects of a cast spell. Their magic also gives them the ability to manipulate the forces of chaos, allowing them to alter probability in their favour and generally improve their own chances of success in both magical and mundane tasks. They can even twist fate to manipulate the abilities of others. However, due to their untamed wild magic, their spellcasting can occassionally unleash surges of random magicks, creating unpredicatable magical side effects.

Uniquely, the triplets possess a psionic a hivemind, allowing them to share their thoughts. As a consequence of this, they often speak at the same time or finish each other’s sentences and will often communicate telepathically with one another rather than speak. Though capable of individual thought, their inner monologues possess no privacy from one another, as they instantly know and feel each others' thoughts and emotions.

The sisters stay physically close, as their power depends on it. They cannot cast spells individually, as their magic is intrinsically linked to their hive mind. Though they can cast cantrips by themselves, only one sister can do so at any given time. The sisters can only cast a spell by physically being in contact with one another. If only two sisters perform a spell, its chances of success are significantly stunted.

If sufficiently separated, or their telepathy is otherwise blocked from reaching one of them, that sister effectively leaves the hivemind and becomes unreachable to the others. Despite this, the sisters are always able to detect that each other are alive, even if their telepathy is blocked, unless they are separated by planes of existence. This is because their psionic bond is also empathic in nature, meaning they empathically share injuries if one of them suffers physical harm. As such, if one sister were to be killed, the other two would die also.

As half-elves, the Mindales all possess darkvision, allowing them to see in dim and dark conditions. Their fey ancestry also affords them some resistance to charms and to magical slumber.

The Mindale sisters all speak Common, Elvish and Orcish.

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **Slings**: Each sister carries a slingshot they've had since their early youth.
* **Daggers**: Each sister additionally wields twin daggers for protection.

### Other Equipment

* **Explorer's Packs**: Each sister has their own rucksack, containing their bedroll, a mess kit, a tinderbox, ten torches, rations and their waterskin. They each also carry an iron pot and shovel in their packs and have fifty feet of hempen rope strapped to the sides of them.
* **Tinker's Tools**: The sisters also carry tinker's tools, which include small mechanisms that allow them to fix and build contraptions, as well as mend clothing.