Little Red

Artist unknown

A little lost girl is not an uncommon sight in the wilds of Faeble, and many bandits have taken the opportunity of running into one by kidnapping them and selling them to slavers, or wizards in need of test subjects. On occasion, however, these young souls turn out not be lost mortals, but one of the most ruthless archfey lords of the Summer Court.

Little Red is the patron of justice for the good citizens of Faeble. Her primary duty is to ensure that those who break the most sacred laws of the Summer Court meet a swift end, which has earned her the title of "Lord Executioner". When not on her official duty, she sometimes poses as a little lost girl in filthy garments, wandering through the woods. Any would-be assailants looking to make some easy coin by taking such lost children captive are mercilessly eviscerated, and left as a warning to others. Some who have discovered the site of such a slaughter claim to have seen a young girl walking away from the scene, her clothes stained red in the blood of the dead.

On the rare occasion that upstanding citizens of Faeble run into her in this way and offer her assistance in returning home, she may grant them some wish or reward.

## Origins

Little Red was once a mortal child who lived in a small mountain town during the First Age. Once a week she would visit her grandmother who lived in a cottage in the maintain forests, bringing her food and medicine. On one such trip, she entered her grandmother's cottage to find that she had been eaten by a werewolf. Try as she might, the girl was unable to escape the cursed beast and she too was eaten whole.

As she fought on in its belly, the girl managed to pull out her pocket knife, and stabbed through the werewolf until finally she was able to claw her way free, killing the beast. Exhausted and dying from her wounds, she slowly tried to make her way back home, but collapsed. She was discovered by a gang of bandits, who stole all she had, ransacked her grandmother's cottage, and left her for dead.

The girl lay on the forest floor for seven days and nights, clinging to life only through sheer willpower. When she finally died, she found that her spirit did not pass on. Her anger brutality of the werewolf and the injustice of the bandits chained her to the forest. Unable to live or die, she set to prowling the forest for anyone she thought deserving of death.

One day, several months later, the High Lord of Summer Titania was walking through the forest with her daughter, the Princess Talia, when they discovered the undead girl slitting the throat of the last of a convoy of slavers who were passing through. The princess felt pity for the girl, and Titania, impressed with the girl's strength of will, offered her true resurrection and a place at her side in the Summer Court. The girl accepted and became known as Little Red, one of Titania's most loyal and brutal companions.

## Appearance and personality

Little Red almost always appears as a young humanoid girl about 9 years old, wearing a long blood-red hooded cape. Her face is shrouded by her hood, and none who have seen it have lived to tell the tale, save for Titania. It is unknown what race she belonged to before her ascension to the Summer Court, though is is assumed she was either human or elven. In combat she is known to wield a wide range of weapons, though she tends to favour her silver flail when dispatching werewolves.

Since pledging herself to Titania, Little Red has been the definition of loyalty, executing her lady's commands to the letter. As her face is completely obscured by her hood, it is difficult to read her expression. However, her rage at the injust in Faeble brims just beneath the surface at the best of times, and Titania allows her to vent this anger on occasion with a "cleansing" of illdoers in certain locations, leaving a horrific site of destruction in her wake.