Peregrin Stormcloud
Owner and proprietor of The Blind Mare inn, and inventor of Robean drink (think coffee).
She has red hair and bright yellow eyes. She was close friends with Eri Meridian and over time, assisted Eri in transcribing notes and journals.
Peregrin is married to Hamnet. Insists on her friends calling her “Pere”, and becomes a friend to Naledi.
She is intelligent, politically strategic, beautiful, and renowned for her generosity.
But she has a secret. Originally from Eras, in About Uisgern Province, Peregrin was not the name she was born with. When she was younger, she became unexpectedly pregnant and gave the boy up for adoption to a rich woman who promised to take care of him. Her family shunned her and disowned her. Overcome with grief, she left her old life behind, created a new name for herself, and went north, where no one would know her.
She met Hamnet, fell in love, and eventually married him. He knows all about her past life.
She does comment to Hamnet and Naledi occasionally that she misses the warmth and sea breezes of the East. Peregrin has a trader acquaintance who sometimes brings her things from Eras such as Vanasoom Leaf and smoked fish.
Shortly after they meet, she advises Naledi not to trust Count Aran.
When Viscountess Adela takes over as Ruler of Banern Province and begins to take away the rights of the people and imposes higher taxes, Pere is at first quite vocal about her opposition to the new ruler. But when the Viscountess sends the leader of her Onyx Guard to "send a physical message" to shut Pere up, Hamnet pleads with Pere to stifle her vocal opposition, and take it underground. Naledi dreams of Peregrin speaking to a group of citizens at night with a field of stars behind her, and shares the dream-vision with Pere. Thus the secret Order of The Stars is created.
(modelled after Rhiannon, Welsh goddess)
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