The Redwork Ladies

The Redwork Ladies, also known as the Timeweavers to some Allerian citizens, are a unit of six goddesses usually appearing in dreams as knitting around a wooden table in a homey room filled with snacks and a hearth. They are the goddesses responsible for literally weaving together the fabric of time, seen as red thread/yarn that turns opalescent once woven into place. They see all possible beginnings, middles, and ends, all at once. They primarily visit their patrons through their dreams.

## Appearance

### Base Appearance

There are six individual goddesses that make up the Redwork Ladies: Janet, Darlene, LaVonne, Gertrude, JoAnne, and Marjorie. So far, their physical forms have always appeared as old women wearing stereotypical sweaters and brooches.

## Personality

The Redwork Ladies are very motherly towards their patrons, concerned about their wellbeing and if they're hungry and vitamin intake as most grandmothers are. Though they appear as old, they all have plenty of fire to them - they love to bicker with each other about how to bake the best cookies, who did a terrible job of brewing the coffee, or stitch techniques.

The Redwork Ladies are famously known as goddesses that choose their followers themselves, arriving in someone's dream and simply beguiling them with kindness and grandmotherly fretting. Not many people seek out the Redwork Ladies as deities to worship, but instead the other way around. They are much more involved in their patron's lives on average than other gods, preferring to chat and check up on them and offer a biscuit from time to time.

## Relationships

The Redwork Ladies first appeared to Corvus in a dream months ago, and they have since become a strong presence in his life. They initially visited to accost him with cookies and coffee, but also to apologize for the tragic accident that occurred in Corvus' life, as it was an error in their work of weaving time threads. In return, they gave him a delicate red bracelet that allowed him to intentionally cause a Wild Magic surge that he could choose and control upon breaking it. They also later gave him a red collar for Goatsy, though whether or not it would cause a Wild Magic surge from Goatsy is still unclear. They are fond of Corvus and his manners, and are curious about the fates they see him in as they are unlike what they have seen before.

Luca from Refuge briefly mentioned to Alfred that he used to be the Chief Cleric of the Temple of the Timeweavers before it aged rapidly with him inside, collapsing and turning him into a skeletal form. He believes he is still alive in his skeletal state due to their will. Since the party helped Refuge and popped the bubble surrounding it, Luca has reverted back to his human self and resumed his clerical duties at the Temple.

## Quotes

"Now, I know this all looks like a mess, and that’s because Darlene can’t keep her section organized (“HEY”)-" -The Redwork Ladies, bickering

## Trivia

* The Redwork Ladies are based off of a real group of people - I never knew this, but at my [Ki] grandmother's funeral, I found out her and a group of five other women would get together once a month, crowded around a card table at a sewing shop, and would quilt/knit/sew together while chatting. They created a cookbook together of compiled recipes and raised over $8,000 for charity with it, went on field trips together, and shared stories about their grandchildren. They called themselves the Redwork Ladies and I knew I had to keep the name
* The names of everyone in the Redwork Ladies are based off real people in my [Ki] life. Janet was my grandmother, LaVonne is my grandmother on my dad's side, Darlene is my great aunt, Gertrude was my very kind neighbor growing up, Marjorie was my grandmother's sister, and JoAnne is a woman I met living in Lanesboro.