Natalia Kuznetsova

## Voice Actor

**Natalia Kuznetsova** (36) is the town blacksmith. She's strong, capable, and cheerful, but thinks she has been cursed to suffer eternal bad luck. Her happiness in Fairhaven has made her wonder if the curse has lifted.

Recently, Natalia joined the League of the Conscious Mind due to a fondness for Cameron Conner.

## Life Before Fairhaven

Before moving to Fairhaven, she was an insurance claims adjustor with no blacksmithing experience. She has a family history of blacksmithing, however - her hammer belonged to her great-grandfather.

## Personal Schedule

On Sundays she can be found at the League of Conscious Mind (early day)
Can sometimes be found standing at the mine entrance.

## Relationship Cutscenes

**New Acquaintances** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: Visit Natalia at her shop
Dialogue:

Natalia: Yee-ouch!

Tara: Is everything okay, Natalia?

Natalia: Ugh, I just smashed my thumb with my hammer. I don’t know why I ever thought I could do this, I was an insurance claims adjuster! Sat behind a desk my whole life!

-[Choice: Joke about insurance claims]

Tara: Tell me the truth, would you deny your own claim right now based on the thumb owner’s negligence?

Natalia: Haha! Don’t make me laugh, I’ll drop my hammer again! And yes, I suppose I would have had to deny this claim!

-[Choice: I’m just as bad]

-[Choice: Desk life is safer]

Natalia: Thanks for letting me vent some steam. Speaking o’ which, I better get back to my forge! Look, I know coming to Fairhaven was the right choice for me. Maybe someday I’ll yell ya that story! It’s hard for me to even believe it sometimes!

**Casual Friend** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: Speak to Natalia directly outside the Mine
Dialogue:

Natalia: Hi Tara, hope you don’t mind me hanging around here.

Tara: Not at all. Hey, where did you get that hammer?

Natalia: Oh, it was my great-grandfather’s, but it was kept for many years by… I guess we’ll call her a friend of the family. Wish I had it when I was younger to fend off bad dates!

--[Choice: Dating is the worst]

--[Choice: My trowel won’t help my love life]

-Tara: I have a feeling if I posted a pic of myself with my trowel I wouldn’t get too many dates!

-Natalia: Hey, you never know what folks might be into, haha!

--[Choice: Even Sophia couldn’t make us matches]

Natalia: I’ll admit, I gave up on finding love long ago due to my poor luck. But ever since I came here my luck’s been looking up in other ways! Maybe it’s foolish, but I’m feelin’ hopeful!

**Good Friend** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: Speak to Natalia inside League of the Conscious Mind
Dialogue:

Cameron: Natalia, we really appreciate all the time you’ve spent volunteering here at the Consciousness Center! But the real work now is to go into the community and try to bring more folks in!

Natalia: I’ve been doing that, Messenger! See… um… my friend Tara, she’s here!

--[Choice: I came because of Natalia]

-Tara: Yep, I’m here because Natalia has been raving about the Book of the Mind!

-Cameron: Wonderful! Great work, Natalia!

--[Choice: I came because she talks about you]

-Tara: Oh, Natalia has told me so much about the new Messenger, she hardly talks about anything else!

-Natalia: Hehe, well, I just meant it's such a great community here, is all!

--[Choice: I need Natalia for a job]

-Tara: Um, well, technically I came to find Natalia! I just need to talk to her about some smithing work.

-Cameron: Ah. Well, she certainly is the person for that job! But come back again anytime!

Cameron: If you’ll excuse me, I need to go prepare for my next session.

Natalia: Can I tell you a secret? I’m trying to impress Messenger Cameron – because I have a bit of a crush on him! ‘Course, I doubt I’m alone in that!

**Best Friend** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: Visit Natalia at her shop
Dialogue:

Parker: I would help you if I could, Natalia, I just don’t have any wood to spare in my shop right now.

Natalia: Curse that unreliable ferry! I’ll never have enough coal to make it before my next shipment comes. Tara! Any chance you have some spare wood I could burn down into charcoal? I can’t keep my forge hot enough without it!

[Complete quest - Keep Your Coal]

Natalia: Hi Tara, did you bring the wood?

Tara: Here’s your wood, Natalia. Will it make enough charcoal?

Natalia: Yes, this should be enough! It would burn down just before I run completely out of my last batch of coal! Lucky timing! You believe in luck, Tara?

--[Choice: I’m starting to]

-Tara: To tell you the truth, Natalia, I’m starting to believe in all sorts of things I never thought were possible.

-Natalia: Me too! Funny, I think it’s something about this place. Being here makes me feel like anything could happen.

--[Choice: You make your own]

-Tara: I believe in luck, but I think you can't just rely on it, you've got to help it along!

-Natalia: Yes, Messenger Cameron says something similar! How you can have the best shoes but you still have to walk the path.

--[Choice: It’s superstition]

-Tara: No, I think superstition clouds people's judgement.

-Natalia: Ah. Messenger Cameron says something like that. He's not big on old superstitions. I have to keep some of my old family traditions to myself sometimes.

Natalia: The old babka who held onto my great-grandpa’s hammer all those years said when I picked it up my luck would get better. I think she was right. After all, I live in this beautiful place now, and I’ve made such wonderful friends, like you, Tara!

## Quotes

The full list of quotes for this character can be found here.