Gretel

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Gretel: Once Upon a Time...

After defeating the witch Gothel in a explosive display of magic, the young woman Rapunzel healed her lover Prince Darling and the two lived not far from the ruins of the tower which Rapunzel was once imprisoned in and which she had believed to now be the tomb of Gothel. Months after the defeat of Gothel, Rapunzel gave birth to twin children.

The pain and stress from childbirth agitated Rapunzel's innate magic and caused an agitation with the nearby esoteric scar left in the wake of the tower's magical eruption. By the time both children were born, the scar had become a rift in the fabric of space and time.

Just hours after Rapunzel and her husband welcomed their children to the world, a Sheeda war party came bursting from the hole in reality. Darling put Rapunzel and his children on a horse-drawn wagon and told them to flee to the capital of Gascogne as he stayed to buy them time.

When Rapunzel reached their destination, the city was also overrun by Sheeda. Rapunzel turned the wagon North, toward the Golden Realm. After weeks of treacherous travel with two newborn children, Rapunzel and her children eventually settled in Hamelin in the Hesse.

Though the Hesse has its shares of dangers, Hansel and Gretel had a pleasant childhood. The two siblings were each other's best friend and they looked after each other and their mother who was still grappling with the loss of their father and the horrors she had been confronted with on the road from Gascogne to the Hesse.

The two briefly loaned themselves out to a woodcutter and his wife to help earn some money for their family. However, after luring the two into a false sense of security, their employers led their children far into the Black Forest, far beyond their capability to easily find their way back or for their mother to hear their cries.

The woodcutter and his wife were thralls of the witch Mother Gothel and had hoped to bring the children to Gothel, but before they could find their way to the cottage where Gothel lived, the Big Bad Wolf crossed their path. Having survived a previous encounter with Gothel, the Wolf could smell her magic's scent on the thralls.

As the Wolf made short work of the thralls, Hansel and Gretel were able to duck into the forest and escape. Fearful the wolf wanted to devour them, the children ran recklessly until they were hopelessly lost. To help them navigate, Gretel took the sweet bread Hansel (a notorious sweet tooth) always had on him and used it to leave breadcrumbs so that they would recognize if they had circled back upon ground already covered.

After the sweet bread was nearly gone, the children came upon a home in the middle of the Black Forest. A sweet aroma came from the cottage and though Gretel was nervous about it, sensing something was off, Hansel ran towards it, eager for food (since Gretel had used up his sweet bread). No sooner had Hansel knocked on the door than it swung open and the two were granted by a beautiful woman offering supper.

Hansel ate way too much and blacked out from the magical herbs baked into the food. Gretel being suspicious had eaten nothing and once Hansel dropped, she grabbed a knife and jammed it into the woman's hand, pinning her to the table in a vicious splash of blood.

However, refusing to leave her unconscious brother behind, Gretel was captured and put under a spell which made her docile and subservient to the witch's commands. Gretel now knew this woman was Gothel.

For several months, as a Sheeda incursion surrounded the Black Forest, Gothel kept the two in her cottage. Hansel as a prisoner and Gretel as her pupil. The pair were being kept for a solstice gathering of the Baba Yaga where Hansel would become the sacrificial offering and Gretel would be the sacrificial executioner — who would then have a chance to join the Baba Yaga by indulging in the feast of the slaughter.

However, when the solstice gathering happened, as Gothel was putting the gag on Hansel's mouth, the boy chomped down on her finger and then shouted for Gretel to awaken from her trance. Much to the surprise of the Baba Yaga, Gretel's love for her brother did break the powerful trance and she used that to channel a raw inferno of magic which sent the Baba Yaga scattering — giving Gretel and Hansel time to escape.

The two fled to Americana where they become founders of the Colonial Lodge before coming to Earth and starting a similar organization but under a different ideology and name, now called the Men of Letters.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* Fable Physiology
	+ *Enhanced Charisma*
	+ *Immortality*
	+ *Residual Magical Connection to the Baba Yaga*
	+ *Resurrection*
	+ *Twin-Link (shared with Hansel)*
* Hunter Training
	+ *World-Class Marksman, Archer, & Arbalist*
	+ *Master Brawler, Knifefighter, & Grappler*
	+ *Master Weapons Expert*
	+ *Expert Tactician & Strategist*
* Occult Training
	+ *Master Occult Ritualist, Wardsmith & Exorcist*
	+ *Raw Sorcery*

### Weaknesses

* Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
* Vulnerability — Separation Anxiety Without Hansel

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 85
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Another Sheeda invasion prevented Rapunzel from rescuing her children.

### Notes

* Gretel is a character from *Fables*.
* Men of Letters is an organization from the *Supernatural* TV series.
* In the *Fables*, Gretel willingly became Frau Totenkinder's pupil, seeing potential the potential of magic.

## Network Files

Network Files Hansel and Gretel.jpgNetwork Files: Hansel and Gretel

## Links and References

* Appearances of Gretel

1. ↑ Network Files: Hansel and Gretel
2. ↑ Network Files: Rapunzel