Natasha Cambridge

**Natasha Cambridge** is one of the humans Howard Philips Lovecraft wrote about in his book **The Hound**. She is one of the Thirteen Cursed Mortal Souls, alongside Dr. Bright, Dr. Clef, Howard Philips Lovecraft, Herbert West and her best friend and lover Sainte Jane. She is one of the last survivors of the **Golden Witch's Gambling Game**, which resulted in her gaining immense supernatural properties that allowed her to control her former arch-nemesis, the Bael hound of Cxaxukluth.

She joined the Neo Outer Gods Riege along with the other survivors of the **Golden Witch's Gambling Game**, because their fate was rewritten by the Deaf Genius Goddess, who made it so they faced each pillar of the Neo Outer Gods Riege, were defeated and were convinced to join them. Her opponent was Cthugha.

## Appearance

Not much is known about Natasha's original appearance, though she was once a normal human male by the name of **Nathaniel Bard**, she has taken on many appearances throughout her incarnations. In one of her incarnations, she was a crow and her lover was a vulture.

In her current and likely permanent incarnation, Natasha is a beautiful middle-aged lady of fine proportions. She wears a purple dress and green earrings. Her hair is brown and tied into a ponytail with a shade of red in it near the bottom. Like most of the cursed mortal women, Natasha has an imposing figure, being both very slender and rather voluptuous.

## Personality

Natasha is a very strict and serious woman who has been described as "stiff" by multiple characters. However, she hides a surprisingly short temper and tends to shout quite a bit. She is also very loyal and responsible, and tends to bottle up her feelings and write them down in her diaries so that she will forget about them rather than express herself.

As Nathaniel Bard, where most of her original personality is preserved in a half-torn notebook of sorts, it can be observed that at least one tenth of Natasha's habbits are a thing she inherited from her original self and not something she picked up during her new lives.

Like her partner-in-crime, "St. John", "Nathaniel Bard" was a man of sinful and soul-burning obsessions with questionable and abhorrent activities. Curious to sin, Nathaniel Bard engaged in homosexual relationship with his friend, that was rather a culmination of personal excitements than something romantic or sweet; he tore open the tombs and graves of men, women and creature that should have never been disturbed; he desecrated the sacred grounds of many of the Great Old Ones' temples and he toyed with the artifacts he and his friend found.

However, that was the only thing that made him similar to his partner. Otherwise, they were supposedly complete opposite and even to this day, after many reincarnations, they still are complete opposites. While St. John was unhealthily obssessed with finding such ugly secret treasures, Nathaniel was more moderate about it and often questioned their actions. He also had the conscience to pay respect to those ethereal forces of which most locals warn him about whenever he and John rob a very secluded graveyard.

In essence, Nathaniel and John were two sides of the same thieving coin, the light and the dark of a grave robber's life.

Natasha appears to be rather unfortunate, as she is disrespected by most of her fellow Cursed Humans, frequently suffers from headaches, and is very often criticized by her Sainte Jane, bordering on verbal abuse. However, if put under constant pressure in certain situations, she is more than capable of not letting herself be subdued psychologically and even takes the lead quickly.

In a normal setting, which for Natasha would be the daily life of a medieval wife, she can be calm, composed and imposing. She knows how to navigate the Mansion of Eldritch Nights expertly, though she is not as knowledgable as her rival and lover Sainte Jane, which leaves her at a severe disadventage whenever they play their 'games'.

Natasha is also very timid when it comes to sexual topics and is especially emberassed by her relationship with Sainte Jane, as to mostly everyone else they appear to absolute detest each other. She explodes into a panicked state even if Sainte Jane merely bites her ear or gropes her breasts.

## History

### Origin

Natasha and Sainte Jane have a deep history together. Once a prodigy student at the Cambridge University, Natasha decided to take on archaelogy-related jobs, even becoming a professor at her university at one point. She met Jane during an excursion to a less famous tomb and the two's common interest in finding artifacts in such places caused them to become best friends.

Both soon grew impatient and began freely robbing all kinds of graveyards, churchyards, tombs and resting places, half of which had yet to be properly discovered by any branch of the governments of the world. These expeditions and misadventures gave them the richest of any collection of 'unmentionable horrific treasures' in the whole wide world.

What they did not realize was that these 'treasures' were the personal belongings of followers and prophets of the Old Ones and their ancestors Outer Gods, so by robbing their graves, Natasha and Jane were essentially insulting the Outer Gods themselves. Thus, on the day of the reversed-probability clock, Cxaxukluth send Bael and his children to torment them after they took one of his more valueable possessions - his 96th amulet.

For about two months, the hounds of Cxaxukluth tormented the two immoral men with eerie noises and nightmares until one night, on November 18, Jane was attacked by one of the hounds and was mutilated to death, only being able to pass a few faint words to her partner before dying.

A bit later, after Natasha attempted to return the amulet to the place from which they had stolen it, she was encountered by the Bael itself which cruelly mocked and tormented her mind till she committed suicide via a shotgun to the head.

However, this was not the end for Natasha, nor Jane as Cxaxukluth had something much worse in store for the two mortals who offended him.