Constance Morovin

Constance brandishing a hydrogen pistol for effect, though she rarely uses it except in dire need. She far prefers a subtler approach.

## Basic Information

### Campaigns

* The Inquisition Campaign
* Steamed Hams (One-Shot) (non-canon)

### Relatives

* Sofia Morovin (mother)
* Palia Morovin (grandmother)

## Alignment

### Starting

Paranoid Neutral Leaning Good

**Constance Morovin** was a private investigator who became attached, first as a Court Investigator and then as an Inquisitorial Detective, to the retinue of Althea Sabina Del'Rega.

## Personality

Constance was sometimes anxious, sometimes very brave, and always a bit of a mess. Pulled between a strong desire to experience unusual things and crippling fear that led her to retreat into herself and hide, she did her best to navigate her position. She found safety and comfort in being in shadow and tended to hover in the least well lit place in her environment.

Constance had acute senses and loved exquisite and unusual smells, tastes, and feelings - the fine crinkle of a book or the taste of the walls could bring her joy, especially if it was a new and exciting sensation. She relied heavily on touch for comfort.

Though she did not abdicate violence entirely, she abhorred its use, preferring negotiation, espionage, and subtlety

## History

The daughter of the Fialta gunrunner Sofia Morovin, Constance was brought up in a family on the move. Her mother taught the kind of skills she would need to survive in the world of intrigue to her and her siblings - children of many fathers, most of whom were probably dead. All of them were pressed into service in their mother's work, becoming lookouts or hiding weapons, travelling from one Aeldman backwater to another through the First Coalition War (though her mother had been playing this game long before)

Unlike most of her siblings, however, Constance did not like this underworld life and the constant stress and decided that she wanted to work elsewhere. She moved back to the ancestral home of their grandmother on Del'Mar, 10 years after the Coalition War ended and took up criminal investigation, using the street skills she learned as a child to catch thieves and bust organized crime rings for the Imperial Security Bureau. In this time she expanded her knowledge of Aetherics, adding it to her knowledge of armaments to become a preeminent forensic expert.

Disgusted with the increasingly militant and draconian methods employed within the Imperium and tired of the constant politics, she made her way to Tar'Thalran and began a private investigating practice. She was soon noticed by one of the Thalranese judges, Althea Sabina Del'Rega. Thus began a very productive relationship serving as a fact finder for Althea that continued through the Gunboat Wars.

Constance was there with Althea during the Tar Docks Incident, and was separated from her party when the shooting began. Terrified and alone, she wandered panicked from one hiding hole to another until the Aeldman had left. She watched Althea being taken away and shook in fear, unable to even try to do anything about it.

The next few years were dissolute as Constance reeled in depression and traumatic disorders, her already shy and isolated personality rendering her unable to find assistance until Althea tracked her down again and asked her to rejoin her court, this time as a confederate level detective. She agreed, doing her best to dig up evidence on illegal slavery and religious strife only to be stymied by politics from beyond their courtroom.

When Althea decided to go to the Inquisition, Constance dutifully followed, excited by the prospect of going throughout the confederacy to continue their investigations. No sooner had she settled into their base on Zanevuela—letting the paranoid Tacitus know in snide ways she knew where all the bugs are—that she had to leap into action in pursuit of kirvan radicals seeking to assassinate the inquisitors. Following one to their hideout, she took out one with flashbangs and the assistance of a very drunk bar patron. She quickly searched their hotel room, called the fire department and slipped back into the shadows to report.

Both were disappointed by the conditions of their first assignment to Konira. Still, she sought as many opportunities to enjoy the finer points of the planet; she particularly enjoyed following fellow detective Hercule J. Bloom on adventures to strange places and watching his excellent methods.

At the request of Varlam Vasiliev and out of curiosity, she accompanied the inquisitors to the Kirvan Abbey on Konira where she played a vital role in breaking into the basement and analyzing the munitions manufacture occurring therein. Unfortunately, her break-in was discovered by an abbey worker and the gunshot that resulted from her killing him incited the Kirvan Abbey Incident on Konira, which ultimately led her to join inquisitor Caesaris in the basement again, where they successfully stopped an attempt to blow the whole abbey's store of gunpowder along with its main generator shortly before Marius Nemo's summoned elder thing rampaged through the abbey, putting Constance into a terrified panic that had her cowering in Caesaris' firm grip. She spent the next week or two locked in a dark room, only coming out for a little bit to help determine blasting points in the mine layout in the raid to capture Settram. She had regained enough composure to join the inquisitorial after-party when Marius' doppleganger was put on trial and Settram captured, and took the opportunity to touch and take surreptitious tastes of some of her companions (the last time that she would not get in too much trouble for doing so for a long time, she suspected).

## Assassination Attempt and Later Life

During the escape from Firhbank, Constance was shot in the head (for wanting to spill the Konira incident) and suffered massive brain damage, which caused her to lose most of her memories. She lived out the rest of her life mostly amnesiac—though this was in some ways a blessing in disguise, her years spent having forgotten her trauma, and enjoying immensely re-learning the feel and touch and taste of everything. Her life was cut short of its full length, but it was spent in child-like wonder.

## Trivia

Constance is another member of The Hill Clan, carrying on a proud tradition of being useful sidekicks from her grandmother.