Yseult Marne

During a sudden river rise Yseult pulled seventeen trapped workers through a collapsing Bairnbridge sluice. A paying client wants a flooded cellar reopened before the missing workers have been accounted for.

A former river-rope worker, she made her name retrieving seventeen stranded workers from a collapsed waterside passage during a rising tide. Her teams carry ladders, pumps, ropes and lanterns before weapons. Her expeditions recover people and sealed documents from unsafe urban ruins and the river margins rather than pursuing treasure for its own sake.

Named deed, The Seventeen of Bairnbridge: During a sudden river rise Yseult pulled seventeen trapped workers through a collapsing Bairnbridge sluice. Later she led the Six-Crate Retrieval, recovering a lost pay chest and payroll books before a river company could quietly erase deaths. Witnesses remember her choosing trapped labourers before valuable cargo.

Workings: Noncaster; accomplished physical rescue specialist, dependent on trained pacifiers for spirits.

Captured: A water-bound bell-wight was held at a flooded chamber threshold by Brother Ysarn Kest (53) while Yseult hauled survivors out. She did not cast the ward or claim the spirit as a private prize.

Notable item: Nine-Knot Rescue Rope — tarred hemp with nine distinctive reinforced knots, reputed never to slip on wet stone. It is extremely well made, not an inexhaustible enchanted cord.

Allies: The pacifier Ysarn protects the evacuation point when the site is haunted. Yseult commands rescuers and refuses to give Church officers authority over ordinary rescue priorities.

This season: A paying client wants a flooded cellar reopened before the missing workers have been accounted for.

For a company: A valuable ally when the party needs extraction rather than combat. She trusts Mara Fenwick on pressure hazards but distrusts patrons who ask for secrecy before a rescue.

In person

32. Compact muscular woman, olive-fair skin, short dark-auburn hair shaved at nape, slate-grey eyes, crooked left little finger and visible gap between front teeth. Noncaster. Leads practical flood rescues and works alongside licensed pacifiers without claiming their suppression rites.