Lady Death

Lady Death was called Emily Davis long ago. She's a vaudou Houngan and has the reputation of being a werewolf. She's one of the only friends of Jeremiah II, even though she never leaves her swamps of Louisiana, where her swarms of zombified minions worship and serve her.

HISTORY

Even in the secret services, nobody knows anything about her past. She's there, that's all. The only thing anybody has ever managed to make her say about her past is her former name, Emily Davis.

ACTUAL LIFE

Lady Death lives in a big manor in the middle of the highly dangerous swamps of Louisiana. Over fifty servants share her home, along with her mysterious "protected ones". She strangely has some visitors from time to time, despite how dangerous the surroundings are for the travellers.

Lady Death is one of the last Vaudou Houngans, so to say, a priest. Her power has the reputation to be real and nobody dares mess with her in any way. She follows the ways of the guédés and of Baron Samedi, both of them being sorts of death spirits. Also, the many real zombies around the home are enough to convince the most skeptical. Using vaudou rituals, Leto and traditional meals, Emily manages to change anybody, as strong as he may be, as a devoted slave. They have a particular way of walking, can't feel the pain and as it seems, no traces of spirit seems to be left within them. Their only weakness is to fear fire and the sun, just as the Leto does, that is why they only walk out during the night or cloudy days.

PERSONNALITY

Lady Death is a dark soul, always speaking in strange metaphors, interpreting every single event like a sign from the Lwa, vaudou spirits. She seems to be proud and quite arrogant sometimes, but she has charisma and everybody is tempted to believe her, even when she says she's a werewolf. In fact, the werewolf in some kind of different in the Vaudou, since it is believed that this creature can create zombies during the night and is invulnerable, except to fire and precious metals. During the day, she's a simple mortal again.

THE ROYAL DEAL

Curious about these rumors, Jeremiah II went to meet Lady Death personnally, with all his royal guard standing outside, ready to fire. He spoke to her for several hours and went out, troubled, quiet. He ordered that no harm would ever be tolerated against Lady Death, that she's allowed to do whatever she wants on her lands. He even moved away the Lord who officialy owned the lands where Lady Death lives, sometimes sending her presents, or rare ressources she may needs like ambers, for example. Maybe Jeremiah made a deal with her, some sort of... mutual help from time to time.