Hyzel Cohen

*"Sab...she sort of* **is** *a cult." -Ebron Dusxon*

Hyzel (Cohen) Glynne, often referred to by her title, the Lady Augur, is the current leader of the Cult of the Forgotten and a member of the Chain Gang (despite her protests). She was introduced in Episode 1 and is played by Rachel.

In Episode 64, after her marriage to Leonnaire Glynne, Hyzel changed her name to Hyzel Glynne. This was reflected on the livestream.

## Appearance

Hyzel is Morleyan, and has white hair in a bob with longer strands framing her face. She has green eyes. She often wears a half-veil over the lower half of her face and an ornate purple coat. She wears an iron torc necklace around her neck that, as of Episode 15, is attached to a black bonecharm pendant. Both have Void properties. After Episode 64, Hyzel also attached her engagement ring to the torc.

Hyzel also carries the Hastings Device, a prototype radio made by inventor Sybil Hastings capable of detecting Void music from nearby artifacts or Void-touched individuals.

## Skills

Hyzel is a skilled negotiator and socialite. She has run the Cult of the Forgotten since Leonnaire Glynne, the former Reeve, disappeared. She is a master liar and reads other people with ease.

Hyzel has a wide network of connections across both the Isles and Pandyssia from her time in the Cult. These connections regularly provide the Chain Gang with help and support when needed.

As of the end of the campaign, Hyzel began developing some skill with explosives, seemingly in response to her incursion with Sabelle Escanti in Episode 22.

## Notable Events

Hyzel received Enforcer Lee Berrett as a bodyguard after Maxim Kennerick insisted she travel Pandyssia with protection.

In Episode 11, Hyzel and Anton Blackburn attempted a Void séance using one of the Voidrite spikes, but this received no positive results.

In Episode 15, Hyzel made a deal with Lysander McRoven, a member of the Ebony Pervasion, to work as a double agent within the Protectors. In exchange for information, Lysander promised to provide her concrete help in reaching Leonnaire Glynne within the Void.

Hyzel and Lysander planned Episode 16’s hostage exchange as a way of providing Hyzel cover, but the situation quickly went south when Lee Berrett tried to kill another Pervasion operative, Captain “Snatch” Ogden, and was killed himself. It was after this tragedy that Hyzel revealed her role as the Lady Augur was a lie meant to perpetuate the Cult of the Forgotten.

In Episode 22, Hyzel was nearly buried alive by Sabelle Escanti and Pix before being rescued by Gennifer Casey and Wilkes.

In Episode 37, the Diplomat appeared to Hyzel and gave her The Blindman’s Cane/ The Blindman’s Baton, a Void artifact resembling Leonnaire Glynne’s cane.

In Episode 44, during the crash of the Ivory Respite, Hyzel traveled to the Void with Anton, Dr. Orris Atlee, and Lord Erimany Talvon. The latter offered to take Hyzel to Alba to retrieve Leonnaire Glynne, cashing in on Hyzel’s deal with the Pervasion, but Hyzel refused to leave the Chain Gang to die. She instead threatened Atlee’s life to get Talvon to call off the attack, which backfired and ended in both Atlee’s death and the loss of the Diplomat’s spike to Talvon. Talvon still allowed Hyzel to leave the Void, citing his admiration for her willpower and drive.

In Episode 49, Hyzel learned about the Inversion during a rendezvous with Lysander McRoven, who offered her safe harbor during the beginning of the plan. Because of this, Hyzel was not present for the assassination attempt on Maxim Kennerick.

In Episode 54 Hyzel freed Reeve Leonnaire Glynn from the void. She did this with the help of Anton Blackburn, who opened a portal to the void at the location that Hyzel and Leo had performed their ritual to turn Leo into an outsider. Once in the void, Hyzel said Leo's name, both the full name and the shortened version, effectively ending his time as The Diplomat, and leaving the position empty.

In Episode 64 Hyzel married Leo in secret. The ceremony was held in Counteye, right before an attack by the Ebony Pervasion on the Protectors and immediately following Leo's proposal. Captain Brigham Bell performed the ceremony while Sab kept watch outside, though he was not intended to know. The ring, which Mikhail had been carrying potentially since before the ritual to make Leo an outsider, Hyzel put on the chain hanging from the torc, with the black bonecharm.

In Episode 65, Hyzel was the sole party member to stay alive through the fight with Lord Talvon. When the Regulator separated Lord Talvon and Giles Axven, Hyzel stabbed Talvon through the throat, killing him. The Regulator gave Hyzel the location of Maxim Kennerick’s letter containing the keys to the home she had been having built for herself and Leo.

In the Epilogue, Hyzel released Lysander McRoven from the Protectors’ custody on the conditions that he provide information to the Protectors and never see them again. Hyzel, Leo, and Bill Sokolov arrived at their new home outside Sunline. Later, Hyzel and Leo passed on control of the Cult of the Forgotten to Mikhail, revealing that they were expecting a child: Maxim, if a boy, or Evelyn, if a girl.

## History

Hyzel grew up on the streets of Alba, Morley. She has mentioned her mother, Evelyn Cohen, was a baker, which is where Hyzel gets her own love of baking from. While what happened to Evelyn is unclear, Alba’s desolation during the Void Crisis occurred early in Hyzel’s childhood.

Hyzel lived many of her formative years alongside Leonnaire Glynne, an ex-noble scion from a Morleyan house. The two made their livings as con artists. It has been heavily implied that they established a romantic relationship during this time.

Hyzel helped Leonnaire found the Cult of the Forgotten, a Void cult bent on installing Leonnaire as the new Outsider so he could empower those who could protect the downtrodden. While the Cult was Void-oriented, its reach became a lot wider due to its populist ideals of helping those in need and banding together for stability in the tumultuous times the Isles were undergoing.

Despite reservations, Hyzel aided Leonnaire in the ritual of his ascension, in which he disappeared without a trace. Hyzel falsely claimed to the gathered audience that he had spoken to her and took up her mantle as the Lady Augur, Leonnaire’s aide in the natural world.

She took over leadership of the Cult of the Forgotten after the ascension ritual, telling the cultists that Leo's ascension was successful, but he was not yet powerful enough to speak to anyone but her. This lie has continued for three years prior to the start of the campaign, though the Cult’s following is waning. Behind closed doors, Hyzel has been searching tirelessly for answers on what happened to Leonnaire.

During the years after Leo’s ascension, Hyzel became close friends with Sybil Hastings, the inventor of the radio. With Sybil’s prototype Void-wave detector, the Hastings Device, Hyzel set off for Pandyssia to explore the rumors of developments in the Void centered around that continent.