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| name      = Genevieve “Genny” Tolleson
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==Appearance==
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| title    = High Inquisitor
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For a young woman so talented in the kitchen, Genny is a stick of a girl. Not particularly well endowed and soaring above other women, she stands equally as tall as most average men. Her hair is somewhat long and somewhere between a fiery red and strawberry blonde, and almost always pulled back in some way or another. Despite her height she is fairly young looking, eighteen or nineteen, probably an accurate estimate though she only ever says she’s the twin of the fourth, of five brothers. Her complexion is fair and smooth, dusted with freckles. However, rough scars appear on her hands and wrists from an encounter with the blood conjurer [[Sumakta]]. Her eyes are a vibrant green and thanks to such terrifying encounters; they are almost always alert either simply to be of help or in anticipation of defending herself.  
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| hair_colour  = Copper Red
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| eye_colour = Green
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| height    = 6’3”
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| build    =   Lanky and lean
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| features  = left-handed, tired
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| birth_date = Jan. 6
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| birth_place  = Orvere, Thessilane
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| profession = Inquisitor, Secretary, Pie-Maker
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==Description==
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“Well meaning and precocious, underestimated and determined, she sticks her neck out into the face of danger, red hair obscuring her vision but her heart guiding her way.” - Matt
  
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The clothes she wears are well made, of very sturdy construction, and utilize fine materials with beautiful dyes, but clearly with some wear. Her priorities are for ease of use rather than fashion, though the cuts are flattering if not a few years out of style and perhaps a foot too short for her height. Always on her is an easily and usually concealed dagger, a gift from [[Glenn Burnie]], it is ornately engraved but otherwise unremarkable.
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To meet Genny is to encounter a mid-twenty year old woman who is plain, pretty on occasion, and generally polite. However, she is not easily overlooked; with her excessive height and the brilliant hue of her long, red hair, it’s simply impossible to blend in with a crowd. She is almost ungainly in the lean length of her limbs.
  
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In recent times the local population are often surprised as she has become far more plucky, confident, and outspoken – though her clumsiness, it seems, will never go away.
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More subtle details include the the delicate freckles dusted over the bridge of her nose and the stains of ink speckling her left hand, which stand stark against her pale complexion. Only the truly observant or a long-time friend would notice the white scars that line her wrist.
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While her attempts to be ladylike are valiant, her clumsiness and lack of balance often betray her as much as her stubborn demeanor. Although her clothes are well made, and of finer fabrics, they’re usually subdued in color. Tailored, floor length and fitted, her dresses are almost military in their rigid appearance, and sometimes worn with a sash or a tied belt of black fabric.
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==
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Born to a well-to-do, respected doctor and his wife from [[Thessilane]], Genevieve Tolleson, “Genny” has a twin brother, Markus and five other brothers. The only younger one is Tennant. From youngest to eldest her other brothers include Kaden, Bradford, Jeryl, and Garrett.
 
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In the spring of 207 Genny’s father became ill with an unknown disease. Confined to his bed he was forced to close his practice until Garrett, the eldest son could return from his training and take over the family business. Since, the Tolleson siblings have ventured out to go to school, find work and support their father with the hopes that there is a cure.
 
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Of late, it is important to note that Markus has taken up with a band of thieves and is assumed missing or dead.
 
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Originally trained as an assistant to her father, Genny worked with healing herbs, creating medicines and salves for her father’s patients. Cooking came naturally with her knowledge of herbs and from her mother’s instruction before she passed away.
 
  
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==In Myrken & At the Dagger==
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Myrken townsfolk being wary and having a general dislike for their geographic neighbors, it is widely known and fairly obvious that Genny is from [[Thessilane]].
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Genny arrived at [[Myrken Wood]] after a fruitless quest for a job as an herbalist. But with little official training, no references, and the fact that she was a girl, the search was nearly doomed from the start. This experience would contribute greatly to some of her later decisions. It was late summer of the year 207 when she accidentally happened upon her job as the cook at the [[Broken Dagger]], when the cook then on staff simply walked out on the job and a barmaid Genny had been talking to begged her to stand in for the evening.
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On numerous occasions the clumsy cook has had to stand in for absent, generally lethargic and / or disappeared barmaids (as is standard fare in seedy joints such as the Dagger). However, the attempt is usually followed by tripping and soup ending up in someone’s lap or in starting a brawl between half the occupants. In almost every instance, her friend [[Dulcie]], the best barmaid in her opinion, has saved her from jeers, taunts, and even weapons.
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There are a precious few that know her well, and fewer still that know her history precisely. To get the jist there is plenty of fairly reliable gossip, a Nosey Nellie will say, "I think she's the daughter of a noble mother, a hobbyist herbalist or was it a baker? She made pies, I think. Yes. And her father was a physician, one of the best - he served the Duke in Thessilane. They both died in the destruction of [[Orvere]]. No. Only her mother did, her father was some time later - after she had already come to Myrken. She has a bother, or two. Maybe it was six? One of them is a doctor too, [[Bradford]], I think? Like his father, he serves Lady [[Lamai Carver]] and her husband [[Christoph]] in [[Thessilane]]. But [[Tennant]], her twin, he’s the famous one - or infamous I suppose. The thief! Everyone knows she despises him."
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However, it was on one particular occasion that her clumsiness and fear caught the attentions of the necromancer [[Sumakta]] who attempted to use his magic to drain the blood out of her.
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==Timeline==
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'''207 AR''' - To pay for her room, Genny joins the staff of the [[Broken Dagger]]. It took only several hours of spilled drinks before she was sent to the kitchen as a cook, where she excells as a pie-maker. Her hard work and harsh words for anyone causing trouble made her fast friends with the barmaid, [[Dulcie]].  
  
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'''208 AR''' - Times become turbulent in Myrken Wood, friends begin to die or become injured. A letter from home is received and Genny leaves for [[Thessilane]].
  
  
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''The sensation was unlike any other feeling, the pull of blood away from its core - the heart thumping wildly to keep it, to bring it back and unable to do so. It was like a horse at full gallop had been restrained in so much that despite all of its muscles throbbing wildly, grasping forward, no ground could be made. Her head was light and the vision darkening at the edges as if slowly the picture were disappearing entirely, "...stop..." Her voice was raspy, choking, ... gurgling.''
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'''211 AR''' - Genny returns to [[Myrken Wood]] from [[Thessilane]], encountering the ‘bodyguard’ [[Giuseppe]] on the porch of the Dagger. Immediately she sets to arguing with [[Glenn Burnie|Glenn]], offending his hired hand, and somehow, subsequently obtained a job working for [[Aloisius Treadwell]].  
  
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Genny meets and befriends several Dagger regulars, [[Catch]], [[Winifred Lawson|Winifred]], and [[Descant]] with whom she helps to plan the Grand Ball (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3590). At the ball she met [[Lamai Carver|Lamai]]’s handsome guard, [[James]], with whom she would have a relationship for several years after.
  
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Genny researches The Blight, which is destroying the forest, and in searching for a cure makes a bargain with the druid Lilani to help restore the woods, ground water, and crops. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3654&start=15)
  
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Thankfully and unfortunately many of Myrken’s most colorful people can be found at the Dagger at one point or another and she has made good friends with [[Aloisius Treadwell]], probably because she makes some of his favorite pies, or just because she provides food at all.
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The tax vault is broken into, all of Myrken’s gold stolen, as is it’s Tax Collector, [[Treadwell]]. After linking a poison found at the crime scene to her brother, Genny joins the manhunt to find him. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3615) A bandit camp is found, while some get away she does manage to capture her brother, punch, and arrest him. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3618)
  
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[[Glenn Burnie]] though they usually end up arguing, this frequent patron has on occasion offered helpful advice and the gift of a fine dagger to ensure that Genny has the means to protect herself, a treasured gift which she still carries. Recently, upon her return to Myrken she repaid his kindness by offering a very fine manuscript entitled, Tales of the North: Folklore and Stories from Hexal and Beyond. The volume included many maps, diagrams, and surveys of lands that have been little explored.
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'''212 AR''' - After [[Glenn Burnie|Glenn]]’s inauguration into Governorship Genny was assigned to the newly formed [[Myrkentown Inquisitory|Inquisitory]], working with [[Aleksei River]] investigating strange happenings and keeping tabs on some of Myrken’s more dangerous elements. Asked to work with [[Cinnabar Calomel]] she began a long research project to determine how best to handle [[Catch]] and the danger he posed to the town. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3891)
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During a particularly heated argument between her friends, [[Catch]] and [[Zilliah]], Genny attempted to keep the peace and mistakenly got between the two. Frustrated [[Zilliah]] turned his wrath on Genny, forcing into her mind the madman's recollections. Subsequent years are spent trying to regain her sanity and control a variety of telepathic-like abilities which seem to have stemmed from the event.
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Genny spends a summer in Thessilane trying to keep [[Catch]] from hurting anyone and spending time with her older brother [[Bradford]], upon her return to Myrken she reveals her expanding mentalist abilities to [[Glenn]] (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3854 ). His encouragement prompts her to begin tutelage with [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]] to better control her unnaturally obtained abilities. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3866)
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'''213 AR''' - Genny works with [[Altias Bromn]] to investigate the [[The Storyteller (Plot)|Storyteller]] and her connection with [[Giuseppe]], meanwhile [[Glenn Burnie|Glenn]] goes missing. [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]] takes control of the city and quietly Genny continues her investigations, learning about the [[Golben]] and working with the resistance among the "unswained," or those who have not been affected by Rhaena's mind control. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4132) (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4113)
 
   
 
   
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She is also friends of [[Rhaena]], [[Lessa Harpwind]], [[Raid]], and most of the Dagger regulars who don’t try to kill her.  
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In the height of the [[The Red-and-Gold Summer (Plot)|Red and Gold Summer]] Genny forms an unlikely partnership with [[Agnieszka Kaczmarek|Agnie]] to advance the dwindling resistance; together they plan the final moves to take down [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]]. The very next day [[Agnieszka Kaczmarek|Agnie]]’s mind is overtaken, forcing Genny to seek out their last hope, [[Ariane Carnath-Emory|Ariane]]. Ariane is already swain, so Genny ‘wakes’ her to reveal the truth about Rhaena. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4169) & (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4248 ).
  
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==Ongoing Story==
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"The Dark Hour" overtakes Myrken and the “Mindwitch,” [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]] is murdered, there are numerous suspects. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4262)
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After her recent return to Myrken there is some speculation that she did more than visit her family in Thessilane during her absence. Genny has returned with a little more fire in her stomach and outspoken tendencies which were not at all present before. And it has been disclosed to [[Treadwell]] that she “has nowhere else to go".
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Suspects continue to be questioned and the search for [[Glenn]] continues. Following the death of [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]] and [[Glenn Burnie|Glenn]]’s return, his first public speech, threatening to turn riotous, tests the limits of Genny’s mentalist powers. In an effort to protect [[Glenn]] she sways [[Gloria Wynsee|Gloria]] and [[Agnieszka Kaczmarek|Agnie]]’s emotions, gets punched, and falls off a stage. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4311 ).  
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'''214 AR''' - Genny meets with [[Ariane Carnath-Emory|Ariane]] and discovers that the essence, or spirit of [[Elliot]] haunts the swordwoman’s dreams. Unsure of her mental powers and still scared from what she had done a month earlier she offers to try and remove him from the stone where he is trapped. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=4322)
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With [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]]’s murder unsolved, [[Glenn Burnie|Glenn]]’s retreat to solitude, and the realization that she has started down the same path as Rhaena, Genny becomes untethered. Fearing her mental abilities and that she will hurt others, she retreats into the solitude of the Library to try and find a solution. It is here that [[Gloria Wynsee|Gloria]] finds her and they reconcile (with a kiss). (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4395)
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'''215 AR''' - Efforts are continued to salvage books from the crumbling library. The pie-maker shares a dream with [[Zilliah]] and [[Elliot Brown|Elliot]], which allows her to forgive herself and decide to make Myrken better. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4451 )
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'''216 AR''' - After the empowering dream with [[Elliot Brown|Elliot]], Genny returns to clean, renovate, and re-establish the [[Myrkentown Inquisitory|Inquisitory]] and align it’s purpose to protecting the town. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=4606 )
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Genny proposes a plan, approved by the Lord Steward [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]], to renovate and expand the Meeting House. A Thessilanian architect by the name of Walter draws up the plans and construction begins. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=4785)
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Recovered books and a personal collection are re-located to the [[Myrkentown Inquisitory|Inquisitory], to become part of a new library being built as part of the Meeting House renovation project. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4784)
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'''217 AR''' - Now confident in the control over her mental abilities; a revealing letter is sent to [[Glenn Burnie|Glenn]], detailing long-held affections and a plan to seek out [[Kals Olwak|Kals]]. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4822)
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'''218 AR''' - Genny boldly ventures into the forest to have a conversation with [[Kals Olwak|Kals]] about [[Rhaena Olwak|Rhaena]]’s death and whether or not she, herself, is a threat. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4832)
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==The Present==
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Construction on the meeting house continues, though her affiliation with it remains relatively private. Walter (NPC, Architect) and Genny’s page / ward [[Daryl]] handle most day-to-day operations. More private than previously, Genny doesn’t get out much, conducting business from her desk and visits are more or less by appointment only.
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Genny

Genevieve “Genny” Tolleson
Information
Title(s) High Inquisitor
Hair Colour Copper Red
Eye Colour Green
Height 6’3”
Build Lanky and lean
Notable Features left-handed, tired
Born Jan. 6
Orvere, Thessilane
Profession Inquisitor, Secretary, Pie-Maker

Description

“Well meaning and precocious, underestimated and determined, she sticks her neck out into the face of danger, red hair obscuring her vision but her heart guiding her way.” - Matt

To meet Genny is to encounter a mid-twenty year old woman who is plain, pretty on occasion, and generally polite. However, she is not easily overlooked; with her excessive height and the brilliant hue of her long, red hair, it’s simply impossible to blend in with a crowd. She is almost ungainly in the lean length of her limbs.


More subtle details include the the delicate freckles dusted over the bridge of her nose and the stains of ink speckling her left hand, which stand stark against her pale complexion. Only the truly observant or a long-time friend would notice the white scars that line her wrist.


While her attempts to be ladylike are valiant, her clumsiness and lack of balance often betray her as much as her stubborn demeanor. Although her clothes are well made, and of finer fabrics, they’re usually subdued in color. Tailored, floor length and fitted, her dresses are almost military in their rigid appearance, and sometimes worn with a sash or a tied belt of black fabric.

Background

Myrken townsfolk being wary and having a general dislike for their geographic neighbors, it is widely known and fairly obvious that Genny is from Thessilane.

There are a precious few that know her well, and fewer still that know her history precisely. To get the jist there is plenty of fairly reliable gossip, a Nosey Nellie will say, "I think she's the daughter of a noble mother, a hobbyist herbalist or was it a baker? She made pies, I think. Yes. And her father was a physician, one of the best - he served the Duke in Thessilane. They both died in the destruction of Orvere. No. Only her mother did, her father was some time later - after she had already come to Myrken. She has a bother, or two. Maybe it was six? One of them is a doctor too, Bradford, I think? Like his father, he serves Lady Lamai Carver and her husband Christoph in Thessilane. But Tennant, her twin, he’s the famous one - or infamous I suppose. The thief! Everyone knows she despises him."

Timeline

207 AR - To pay for her room, Genny joins the staff of the Broken Dagger. It took only several hours of spilled drinks before she was sent to the kitchen as a cook, where she excells as a pie-maker. Her hard work and harsh words for anyone causing trouble made her fast friends with the barmaid, Dulcie.

208 AR - Times become turbulent in Myrken Wood, friends begin to die or become injured. A letter from home is received and Genny leaves for Thessilane.


211 AR - Genny returns to Myrken Wood from Thessilane, encountering the ‘bodyguard’ Giuseppe on the porch of the Dagger. Immediately she sets to arguing with Glenn, offending his hired hand, and somehow, subsequently obtained a job working for Aloisius Treadwell.

Genny meets and befriends several Dagger regulars, Catch, Winifred, and Descant with whom she helps to plan the Grand Ball (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3590). At the ball she met Lamai’s handsome guard, James, with whom she would have a relationship for several years after.

Genny researches The Blight, which is destroying the forest, and in searching for a cure makes a bargain with the druid Lilani to help restore the woods, ground water, and crops. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3654&start=15)

The tax vault is broken into, all of Myrken’s gold stolen, as is it’s Tax Collector, Treadwell. After linking a poison found at the crime scene to her brother, Genny joins the manhunt to find him. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3615) A bandit camp is found, while some get away she does manage to capture her brother, punch, and arrest him. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3618)


212 AR - After Glenn’s inauguration into Governorship Genny was assigned to the newly formed Inquisitory, working with Aleksei River investigating strange happenings and keeping tabs on some of Myrken’s more dangerous elements. Asked to work with Cinnabar Calomel she began a long research project to determine how best to handle Catch and the danger he posed to the town. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3891)

During a particularly heated argument between her friends, Catch and Zilliah, Genny attempted to keep the peace and mistakenly got between the two. Frustrated Zilliah turned his wrath on Genny, forcing into her mind the madman's recollections. Subsequent years are spent trying to regain her sanity and control a variety of telepathic-like abilities which seem to have stemmed from the event.

Genny spends a summer in Thessilane trying to keep Catch from hurting anyone and spending time with her older brother Bradford, upon her return to Myrken she reveals her expanding mentalist abilities to Glenn (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3854 ). His encouragement prompts her to begin tutelage with Rhaena to better control her unnaturally obtained abilities. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3866)


213 AR - Genny works with Altias Bromn to investigate the Storyteller and her connection with Giuseppe, meanwhile Glenn goes missing. Rhaena takes control of the city and quietly Genny continues her investigations, learning about the Golben and working with the resistance among the "unswained," or those who have not been affected by Rhaena's mind control. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4132) (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4113)

In the height of the Red and Gold Summer Genny forms an unlikely partnership with Agnie to advance the dwindling resistance; together they plan the final moves to take down Rhaena. The very next day Agnie’s mind is overtaken, forcing Genny to seek out their last hope, Ariane. Ariane is already swain, so Genny ‘wakes’ her to reveal the truth about Rhaena. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4169) & (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4248 ).

"The Dark Hour" overtakes Myrken and the “Mindwitch,” Rhaena is murdered, there are numerous suspects. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4262)

Suspects continue to be questioned and the search for Glenn continues. Following the death of Rhaena and Glenn’s return, his first public speech, threatening to turn riotous, tests the limits of Genny’s mentalist powers. In an effort to protect Glenn she sways Gloria and Agnie’s emotions, gets punched, and falls off a stage. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4311 ).


214 AR - Genny meets with Ariane and discovers that the essence, or spirit of Elliot haunts the swordwoman’s dreams. Unsure of her mental powers and still scared from what she had done a month earlier she offers to try and remove him from the stone where he is trapped. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=4322)

With Rhaena’s murder unsolved, Glenn’s retreat to solitude, and the realization that she has started down the same path as Rhaena, Genny becomes untethered. Fearing her mental abilities and that she will hurt others, she retreats into the solitude of the Library to try and find a solution. It is here that Gloria finds her and they reconcile (with a kiss). (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4395)


215 AR - Efforts are continued to salvage books from the crumbling library. The pie-maker shares a dream with Zilliah and Elliot, which allows her to forgive herself and decide to make Myrken better. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4451 )


216 AR - After the empowering dream with Elliot, Genny returns to clean, renovate, and re-establish the Inquisitory and align it’s purpose to protecting the town. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=4606 )

Genny proposes a plan, approved by the Lord Steward Treadwell, to renovate and expand the Meeting House. A Thessilanian architect by the name of Walter draws up the plans and construction begins. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=4785)

Recovered books and a personal collection are re-located to the [[Myrkentown Inquisitory|Inquisitory], to become part of a new library being built as part of the Meeting House renovation project. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4784)


217 AR - Now confident in the control over her mental abilities; a revealing letter is sent to Glenn, detailing long-held affections and a plan to seek out Kals. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4822)


218 AR - Genny boldly ventures into the forest to have a conversation with Kals about Rhaena’s death and whether or not she, herself, is a threat. (http://brokendagger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4832)

The Present

Construction on the meeting house continues, though her affiliation with it remains relatively private. Walter (NPC, Architect) and Genny’s page / ward Daryl handle most day-to-day operations. More private than previously, Genny doesn’t get out much, conducting business from her desk and visits are more or less by appointment only.


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