Patricia

The goth animatrix of the The Varian Trio — "I am Gutricia. I am an animatrix. I can create life where before there was none." Black-haired and pale, in full witch makeup and a long coat, she carries a small grimoire chained to a belt loop (the chain spiked, so a thief takes a jab) and travels with an animated broom whose angry face is carved into its bristle-tip — it flies, sweeps enemies like a herding dog, and bounces off plate armour. Her gift is animation: she can raise the dead as puppets, each "proportionally as strong as it was in life," so weak corpses make weak servants (she disdained the cave's feeble skeletons and wanted the boss chamber's dead instead). She is fastidious and unhurried — "power-walking, she doesn't want to break a sweat."

(Named "Gutricia" by the GM; rendered Patricia, Patricia, Gratricia, Catricia, Trisha, Gwetricia, Cathriona, Gricia, Katricia across Session 41, and listed by Renforth among the trio's off-by-one Varian names in Session 35. Spelling open.)

Session 41 (debut)

• Arrived with the trio to raid the cave; her first request was to visit the undead room to "make them dead, then animate them as puppets."
• Kept her broom off the harmless pot-washer at Pimothy's word, then spent the lull in extended conversation (or hide-and-seek) with the pot-washer and the ghost girl.
• Confirmed she can animate anything the party kills in the boss chamber — "6 dudes is 6 dudes" — making the deferred boss fight a source of fresh puppets.

Session 42

• Battlefield control in the boss fight. Cast a Sphere of Darkness to shroud the melee, Haste on Magra (later Long Strider and a Help action on Jex), an upcast 7th-level wind blast to platter an enemy, and a channelled three-beam radiant strike (~37 damage) on the boss. Her broom was destroyed by Halren's chain lightning and rebuilt spiky by Thalia's druidcraft.
• The cure. Twice cast Dispel Magic to lift the boss's Feeblemind from Silithane and Pimothy, restoring their intelligence.
• Her puppet army. After the fight she spends six hours animating the six slain wights into proportional servants — Thalia druidcrafting thorns through them — to march into the dawn raid on the river camp. (Halren was "too high level" to raise; she passed on the Wong.)

Session 43

• The south pincer. Marched her six wight-puppets into the southern half of the dawn ambush with Magra and Rusty, winning their side of the fight (GM-simulated) against the beastmen, the Toe Skinner and a masked Pig Man.