Aoibheann ap Ailil

#### **Identifying Dangerous Unseelie**

* In battle, she will be wearing a void-black hauberk of **chimerical chain, with bracers and guards** of a glossy black like a beetle's shell. She once wore the tabard of House Ailil, or more rarely of a liege lord, but not recently. She has wielded various chimerical or enchanted blades (mostly thin swords), and currently seems to favour a set of black chimerical blades, but of her spell-drinking shield no sign has been seen for a dozen years.
* Shadows shade and contour her face while she speaks, and flicker around her limbs like coiling serpents; when she is angry, they dart and jab alarmingly. These are merely visual effects of her murky cloak, **The Cowl of Evening** - a minor Treasure - and cannot physically touch or in any way harm you.
* Non-kithain are drawn to her, even when un-Enchanted, though there is no obvious cause. They notice her first in a group; contrive excuses to speak to her; stare unashamedly. If you need her picked from a crowd, ask an Autumn person. She's not even *that* attractive (for a Sidhe); it may be an undefined enchantment (or curse) of some sort, and may be in some way related to the following (see next!)...
* If you touch her bare skin (wtf don't touch her skin; don't even make eye contact and send word to the nearest Knight *immediately*) **she feels cold, and a little bit dead**, and makes your fingers numb; a vampire told me once that kissing her hand felt like having his blood drank. The chilling feeling evidently reaches farther for animals, who will not tarry within reach, and further still for living flora, which gradually wilt and die if she sits nearby for long. Only *flies* seem to be immune.

#### **Known Sorceries**

* **Contracts**: may be paid to bind any willing persons with a Devil's Contract.
	+ You can sign a Contract with *her*, if you're desperate.
* **Naming**: performs secret Sainings for undercover or disenfranchised Unseelie.
* **Winter**: the Court gossips aren't well versed in Unseelie Arts, but it's said she can frost over a room.

#### **Quests**

* **Bounty:** The Baron of Figs wishes to present her in chains to the Count, without him finding out she's loose in the County (until after her arrest). If *discrete agents* were to deliver her to the Baron before word gets around to the Count's courtiers that she's here, the reward would be... well, more wealth than you can imagine.
* **Bounty:** The Capture of SIDHE of any UNSEELIE House shall be Rewarded by the COUNTY OF ASHES with *Promotion* for any NOBLE (up to the station of the Prisoner) or with an *Indulgence of DROSS* if by fortunate band of Common Fae.
* **The Cowl of Evening:** The Sluagh are desperate to buy her shadowy cloak, but she's not selling. If you could convince her to sell or trade it - for *whatever* price she claims is fair - they would tell you three secrets. They'd also happily buy it from anyone else who happened to *come into possession* of it. The Lasombra also seek it (any time someone reminds them it exists); they seem to think it *belongs* to them, and demand its return.
* **Burness Cryptids:** Do you know what Thallain are? Never mind. If you happen to spot anything strange around Burness, the Black Witch will grant you *one favor* for each story. In particular, she likes to hear about Fae of unrecognized or mutated Kiths, and half-feral humanoid Chimera.

#### **Character connections**

* May be an ill-advised *Contact* for any Changeling, Vampire, Wraith, or Euthanatos, and high-Gnosis Shadowlords.
* May additionally be an *Ally* or *Mentor* of Ailil or Eiluned nobles, or low-Willpower Giovanni and Lasombra.
* May be a *Contact* for the Minutemen, Kithain For A Free Tomorrow, or Pilgrims of the Bright Road societies.
* May have performed your Saining ritual, if you're a local Unseelie: *definitely*, if you're also a Sidhe.
* May be an *Enemy* or *Rival* of Gwydion nobles or other Seelie Sidhe, Legionnaires and Hierarchs, and foolish Tremere and other Sorcerers.
* Any PC may be bound by her Contracts.