Rules: Castle Maratan
Related to: The Lady-in-Waiting of Castle Maratan.
Lady Natala is one of the Lords Sanguine.
Lady Natala seized the mithril coronet of the old ruler of Maratan from the air as he fell dead from snakebite. She is a frequent hunter in the wild lands around the castle and her hunts do much to supplement the meager tithes that she collects from the mud hunts of the cowering peasants of her domains.
She claims that on one of her hunts she came across the Duke of Thring himself (16.16.01), lying stricken after an encounter with the Tarrasque of Bergolast. Strangely enough, the Tarrasque was not the source of his wound but rather it appeared mysteriously across the back of his hand while he beat his princely jester after he mocked the Duke in meter for failing to bring down the Tarrasque. The wound soon became septic and the Duke fell to the ground in a fever.
Although the Duke is not a kind man, Natala fell in love in an instant and nursed him back to health and when infection took hold on a wound that rang across the back of his hand, she drew blood from the beast so that the Duke could tell her which fingers could be saved and which to cut away.
But their love could not last, for the Duke could not abandon his wife and Dukedom for her, but Lady Natala claims that the young lad who run whooping through the halls of Castle Maratan is the Duke’s son and she means to see him sit on the high seat in Castle Tarengael (16.16) and rule all of the lands of Thring.
Connections
- One of Lady Natala’s agents has captured some dancer’s bloom which is famous for boosting agility (15.18).
Hooks
- How does being mixed with hobgobling shroom wine affect the effects of Tarrasque blood?
- How did a snake come to bite the old lord of Castle Maratan?
- How does Lady Natala plan to win the Dukedom of Thring from her son? Surely she knows that inheritance in Thring runs solely in the female line?
- Is the boy truly the Duke’s son?
Connections
- Lady Natala ended up pregnant with her lady in waiting’s child in a stirge-related accident (see royal family of Gore for more).
- Sheemie, a Mirdenlow, is spying on Sulgrim for Lady Natala. Natala hopes to drive Sulgrim from the keep and return it to a rightful Lord Sanguine.