Cordelia

Cordelia, known to many as the "Grandmother of Rats," is an elderly beggar-woman often found sitting on the town gallows or drawing strange pictures in the ashes at the Broken Dagger. She has no known relations, sleeps under the gallows-stair, and subsists completely on the kindness of inn-keepers and passers-by.

She is quite insane; she is prone to fits of light song and strange rhyme, 'nonsense' phrases with a poetic base, a cackling laugh, and unpredictable, capering, behavior. She has an aversion to bathing or brushing her hair but a giggling attraction to handsome young men, as if she is still an ingenue of fifteen. She also, quite often, mourns publicly for a lost son, Billy, who never existed.

If she had a family name at one point, she has since lost it.

Many cite numerous and differing stories on what, exactly, caused the batty old woman to go mad. Most residents of Myrkentown agree, however, that she is completely harmless -- and, at times, quite entertaining.