Sir Caroline

official art by Mikaela Buckley

Captain of the Guard (formerly)

Freelancer

 The Witches of Hiberna ("sisters"/childhood owners)

Quanyii (wife)

—Sir Caroline of the Southern Frosts[src]

**Sir Caroline** was a knight of the Second Citadel; notably, the only female knight. She was heavily discouraged from pursuing the career, but was forced to be admitted when she successfully passed the tests. Sir Caroline was a knight for at least three years before she resigned.

## Early Life

Caroline was born in the Southern Frosts to parents who were poor, desperate, or close to death.  They sold her as an infant to a hunter, who made a side business out of training children to hunt and in turn selling them into someone else's service if they showed particular talent. Caroline made a point to excel, as this man "made the prospect of getting away from him an appealing one." The hunter sold her to a coven of witches when she was six years old, and the older children in the hunter's retinue told her that the witches would certainly eat her.

The witches took the young Caroline to a banquet of empty plates, that only appeared to be food when one's senses were enchanted. She awoke the second morning feeling as hungry as if she had not eaten at all the day before. She took it upon herself to hunt food for the witches so that they would not eat her, and though the dinner ritual went the same every night, the food Caroline hunted would dissappear from it's place in storage as they ate the illusory food, and she no longer felt hungry in the mornings. She would go on to realize that the witches never intended to eat her, but she continued to feed them because it made them more talkative at dinner time. They never taught her their magic, and Caroline witnessed very little of it; they seemed to be after her simply to hunt food for them.

When Caroline was twelve years old, she returned from her hunt one day to find six out of the seven witches in the coven killed by marauders after a particularly powerful storm. She tried to kill one of the intruders, and came very close despite being only twelve years old. The leader of the marauders was impresses, and told her he would take her in as one of his own if she proved she was the witches' captive and not their student. They brought out the witch who bought her, Sylvie of Hiberna, and without a word between them Caroline slit her throat.

The band of marauders would starve to death roughly a month later, leaving Caroline the only survivor. It is repeatedly hinted that she has reinvented herself from the past several times. Presumably, she has been tried for many crimes, based on her insisted knowledge of the judicial system.

She married the witch Quanyii at some point before the start of the show. Quanyii is the only person before Olala who she told the full tale of her childhood.

## History

* Worked with Sir Marc and Sir Talfryn to slay the Janus Beast, but stole its head and the credit for the kill.
* Pushed Sir Damien down the Tower of Two Thousand Steps, breaking his leg.
* Assigned to take down a cave monster with Sir Angelo.
* Worked with Sir Angelo and Sir Damien to find and kill a witch that had cursed a lake town.
* Intercepted Rilla as the herbalist left Arum and The Keep.
* Worked with the others to defeat the fear monster, but allowed her pride and inflexibility to endanger the team and mission repeatedly.
* Requested demotion to Journeyman Knight as a result. Queen Mira granted this, but in the same letter promoted her to Captain of the Guard.
* Became the best and most effective Captain of the Guard in Second Citadel history, but learned over the course of the crown's conflict with The Kite that that was perhaps not a good thing.
* Resigned from her position entirely in order to pursue other ex-knights like the Kite and prevent them from doing harm.
* For the next two years, Caroline traveled on this mission with her wife Quanyii, her friend Angelo, her ward Olala, her dog Gawain, and the swordsman Ale. Then Angelo departed from the group to bounty hunt on the northern-southern border after a botched tryst with Ale.
* Two additional years later, four years into the quest, Angelo reunited with the group as they sought out Sir Pelinore the Prepared. A now thirteen year old Olala goes against Caroline's wishes and keep the Truesight Monocular, an artifact from the Wayward East that Caroline suspects is dangerous.
* Caroline and her caravan stage an assault on Sir Pelinore's fortress, and Olala is separated from the group by a trapdoor. Caroline and Angelo find her roughly a half-hour later, after realizing most of Sir Pelinore's power is in cheap parlor tricks. She interigates him about his affiliation with Sir Galahad and learns they haven't seen each other in more than a decade. Frustrated at another dead end, she leaves him a broken old man barely alive on the floor.
* While doing a sweep of Pelinore's fortress, Quanyii tells Caroline that several of the Eastern artifacts that are present are perfectly safe. Apologetic, Caroline approaches Olala with the gift of one of Pelinore's books about death religions in The Western Wastes, which contains legitimate information on the Garden of Graves.
* She then tells Olala the story of her childhood, from being sold by her parents as an infant to being sold by the man who bought her to a coven of witches at a still-young age, and finally being forced to kill the last of those witches at the age of twelve by marauders who'd come for their resources in the wake of a bad storm. She expresses her concerns about her position as leader of the group, and Olala asks if she could be allowed to lead. Caroline says that she looks forward to the day Olala will take over leadership, but that it is not today; she is still too young. Olala argues this, claiming that if Caroline has no better idea for where to go they should seak the city that the Truesight Monocular showed her. Olala finally lies and claims that she saw Sir Galahad in her vision.

## Personality

Ambitious, practical, and backstabbing-when-necessary. The first female knight in the Second Citadel. An excellent investigator, it turns out. When given a job she does it diligently and to perfection, which made her an excellent knight but makes her a dubious leader, as she expects the same perfection from those beneath her.

## Relationships

### Quanyii

Quanyii and Caroline demonstrate great concern for the other's wellbeing, with Quanyii breaking her watch to save Caroline and Caroline reacting with urgency every time Quanyii cries out in distress (even when it is a false alarm or overreaction.) Initially having pretended to be strangers in the presence of Rilla and the other knights, she and Caroline were revealed to be in a long term relationship. They are in an open relationship and married. They had their own cottage, where they lived together with their dog Gawain for at least three years before going back out on the road.

### Queen Mira

Queen Mira and Sir Caroline have a professional relationship, but Queen Mira has opened up to Sir Caroline once before, telling her a story about her tutor when she was a child. However, sometimes Queen Mira places her personal opinions on how Sir Caroline lives her life, which is not received happily by Sir Caroline. Sir Caroline had high respect for the queen, and did her duty as a knight diligently. She returned to the Second Citadel in order to save the Queen's life from the Kite even after she had begun to have mixed feelings about her position, still willing to die for Queen Mira because that was what her job required. After coming out of this battle alive, Caroline decided to resign from that position. After hearing Mira's plans for the future direction of the Second Citadel, Caroline seems to have lost the respect she once held for Mira as a leader, and tells her that though she still prefers that Mira doesn't die, she feels generally ambivalent about the idea now, and will take no serious action to save her.

### Sir Marc and Talfryn

Sir Caroline first met Sir Marc and Talfryn while tracking a two-headed ogre called The Janus Beast. Due to certain circumstances, she was forced to work together with the two brothers. While at first believing both of them to be useless, she eventually bonded with Sir Marc over their shared experiences of discrimination. However, she still stole the head of the Janus Beast and took sole credit for slaying it.

### Sir Angelo

Caroline believes that Sir Angelo is a strong and competent knight. His only downfall, in her eyes, is how distracted he gets when he is around Sir Damien. Caroline prefers Angelo to the extent of believing he is a better knight than Sir Damien and much better in a fight. Over the course of their time as coworkers they become true friends, to the point where Caroline feels "as if the moon was gone" when she learns he may be dead.

### Sir Damien

Sir Damien is a very emotional, metaphorical person, all of which Sir Caroline hates. She believes he whines too much, complains too often, cries like a baby and puts too much belief in the Saints.

Queen Mira advised her on how to deal with Damien, stating that he might be very emotionally driven, but he is loyal and focused to a fault. Sir Caroline uses this information to her advantage.

### Amaryllis of Exile

Sir Caroline is consistently suspicious of Rilla's motivations and allegiances. She nearly kills her twice for 'treason', but threatens Lord Arum through the prison door when she thinks he's going to hurt her. Later, Caroline jumps off the edge of the world to save Rilla, and the two have a heart-to-heart when they return safely to the Swamp of Titan's Blooms. They are currently on good terms. Also, Rilla's hair is nice. She likes the shine of it.

### Olala

Caroline and Olala started out on the wrong foot, Caroline blaming her for the Kite's attacks and believing she was a harbinger of doom for the Secobd Citadel. After meeting and speaking with Ale and reuniting with Sir Angelo after he was nearly killed by the Kite, Caroline realizes she was wrong about Olala and the two join forces to defeat the Kite and save Queen Mira.

She defeats the Kite once, but Olala stops her from dealing a killing blow while he's down, allowing him to rouse and teleport away. In her second duel with the Kite she is nearly killed, but Olala saves her and breaks the Soulkeeper amulet, freeing the bird-monsters the Kite had held captive to torment him ad infinitum.

Olala follows Caroline out of the Northern Wilds, and Caroline becomes her primary caretaker as she leaves Knighthood and returns to a life of crime. Four years into this relationship Caroline has had a noticeable impact on Olala's demeanor and behaviors, and the two are quite close despite Olala's boughts of teenage rebellion.

## Episode Appearances

 Season 2* Second Citadel - The Caves of Discord
* Second Citadel - Lady of the Lake
* Second Citadel - The Moonlit Hermit (Part 2)
* Second Citadel - The Spiral Sage (Part 1)
* Second Citadel - The Spiral Sage (Part 2)
* Second Citadel - The Hallowed Halls of Helicoid (Part 1)
* Second Citadel - The Hallowed Halls of Helicoid (Part 2)
* Second Citadel - The Battle at World's End (Part 1)
* Second Citadel - The Battle at World's End (Part 3)
* Second Citadel - The Battle at World's End (Part 5)
 Season 3* The Lovers of the Fallen Tower (Part 2) (mentioned)
* Second Citadel - The Devil in the Sunlight (Part 1)
* Second Citadel - The Devil in the Sunlight (Part 2)
* Second Citadel - The Strong Arm of Justice (Part 1)
* Second Citadel - The Priestess' Fortune (Part 1)
* Second Citadel - The Priestess' Fortune (Part 2)
* Second Citadel - Judgment of the Empire (Part 1)
 Season 4* Second Citadel - The Perils of Pellinore (Part 1)
 Bonus/Other
* Bonus: The Revenge of the Janus Beast
* Second Citadel - The Frozen King of Flame

## Trivia

* Sir Caroline is attracted to women.
* Sir Caroline has dog named Gawain, that she dotes on.

## References

1. ↑ The Devil in the Sunlight Part 2 Patreon Commentary Track
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Second Citadel - Lady of the Lake
3. ↑ Second Citadel - The Perils of Pelinore (Part 2)
4. ↑ They have been together since before Caroline came to the Second Citadel. (Second Citadel - The Battle at World's End (Part 6))
5. ↑ Post-Season 2 Q and A
6. ↑ The Devil in the Sunlight Part 2 Patreon Commentary Track
7. ↑ Second Citadel - The Head of the Janus Beast (Part 1)
8. ↑ Second Citadel - The Head of the Janus Beast (Part 2)
9. ↑ The Priestess's Fortune Part 1 Patreon Script https://www.patreon.com/posts/production-for-3-43218585