Brigitta

**Brigitta** was an innkeeper in Toragay, Elphegort and the mother of the town's resident coachman, Gaile. Running a local inn, she helped Walpurga Sinclair's investigation into the Toragay Epidemic. As the mysterious epidemic caused by the poison Gift spread through town, Brigitta banded together with the other survivors to help quarantine the plague.

## History

### Early Life

Brigitta was born in Elphegort sometime around EC 551, later siring a son named Gaile in the spring of EC 578. After gaining ownership of a small inn in Torgay, she served its guests while residing there with her child, who grew up to become a coachman. When Mayrana Felix married Marquis Kaspar Weingartner in July of EC 608, Brigitta celebrated the occasion with the rest of the townspeople.

### Business as Usual

On August 24, EC 609, Brigitta was visited by a cloaked woman at the inn; after she departed the next day, the innkeeper found that she had left behind a vial of red liquid and put it in the food storage. On August 30, her son woke her up and said there was a guest he had brought to the inn, Walpurga Sinclair, and Brigitta accepted the woman's payment after allowing her to stay in her host's room, none of the others being tidy enough.

The next morning, Brigitta served breakfast for the woman; after arranging for Gaile to deliver a letter from Walpurga to the Schuburg Newspaper in Aceid, she learned that the woman was a reporter working on an article for the next week's paper. After discussing Walpurga's job and the ever-changing state of the world, Brigitta learned that she had come to Toragay to interview someone for her article. The two then chatted about the Freezis Foundation that ran the Schuburg Newspaper, with Brigitta expressing her distate for the company before quietly retracting her statements.

After breakfast was finished, Walpurga left for the Weingartner Mansion before returning to the inn later that day, being greeting by the innkeeper. Two days later, Brigitta checked her out of the inn and the reporter left to return to Aceid.

### Toragay Epidemic

On September 19, Walpurga returned to the inn and stayed there during the following weeks. On October 6, the two talked about a previous guest named "IR"; as Walpurga described the guest, Brigitta recalled the cloaked woman she had hosted and described her strange behavior to the reporter. She then showed her the vial of red liquid that was left behind and allowed the investigator to keep it for her investigation.

Later that night, Brigitta awoke to the sound of fireworks and, heading to Walpurga's room, discovered that the window was broken and the inn was under attack. Leading Walpurga to the attic to hide, Brigitta then heard someone break down the door and call for a "Rin Chan". As the reporter quickly went down and talked to the intruder, learning that it was Walpurga's sister Beata, an investigator looking into the case of Rin Chan's abduction.

Later that month, the World Police reimbursed Brigitta for the damage done by Beata's intrusion, and she hired a master carpenter to handle the repairs. On October 17, Walpurga left the inn for Lucifenia, while Brigitta left at an unknown time to go shopping. As a mysterious epidemic spread through Toragay in the following weeks, Brigitta watched as countless people died while the World Police quarantied the city.

The local pharmacist Egmont Greeonio later rallied together the survivors, relating how he had found a treatment for the plague. They then gathered in the basement of the Weingartner Mansion to avoid infection while Egmont treated them with his special energy tonic. Shortly after, several of the survivors succumbed to the illness and those who remained realized that they were already infected, eventually accepting that they would all die together when Egmont's stock of the tonic ran out.

On November 15, Brigitta and the other survivors were found by Walpurga, Beata, and Gaile. After tearfully greeting her son, the innkeeper explained how they had managed to survive until that point and directed her to speak with Egmont for more information. Brigitta and the remaining survivors were later moved out of Toragay and hospitalized in Aceid for treatment. Once Dr. Puerick Rogze formulated a cure for the epidemic later that year, she and the rest of Toragay's inhabitants were released from the hospital and returned to the decimated town to rebuild.

## Skills and Abilities

Being the proprietor of an inn in Toragay, Brigitta was a competent business owner, able to keep her small inn afloat at a relatively cheap price despite having few customers. She was also able to perform the duties needed to run the inn, such as cooking, cleaning, and managing her tenants. Aside from this, Brigitta was a capable mother, raising her son well and sharing a close bond with him. Despite her older age, the innkeeper was rather fit and able, though still incapable of any physical combat.

## Character Connections

Gaile: Brigitta's son. She had a close relationship with her son and loved him dearly, with the two working together to make a living in Toragay. Despite this, Brigitta would occasionally act harsh with Gaile when he acted thoughtlessly or was overcome by his emotions, even if she herself was doing the same thing.