My NeverAfter OC (warning spoilers up to ep 6ish)
Princess Catrìona
Sister of Kate Crackernuts
(Kah-tree-nah) The Scottish Gaelic name for Katherine (Kate)
The story of Kate Crackernuts
"Kate Crackernuts" is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Andrew Lang in the Orkney Islands and published in Longman's Magazine in 1889. The tale is about a princess who rescues her beautiful sister from an evil enchantment and a prince from a wasting sickness caused by dancing nightly with the fairies.
In the original version, both sisters have the name “Kate” and are the same age.
First Neverafter (Ep1-3]
Closely follows the original tale, with the dark times coming after their story ‘ended’
Both grew up in a Small forgotten kingdom bordering Jubilee
Catríona is the daughter of the King and Kate Crackernuts is the daughter of the new Queen (The Stepmother)
The Hen-wife and the Stepmother on the third try trick her into losing her beautiful head and switching it for a sheep’s one when she is 18
Kate grabbed Catríona's human head and they ran away to fend for themselves, where they came upon the kingdom of Jubilee
Kate finds that one of King Cole’s sons is sick, and goes on to watch him for three nights, following him to the Green-hill where faeries force him to dance the night away
Over three nights Kate gets the cures for her sister and the prince
Kate Crackernuts reunited Catríona with her human head and healed King Cole’s sick son from the wasting
The sick, now healed, son marries Kate and the good son marries the ill, now healed, Catríona [Their Happily Ever After]
As the war came to Jubilee they fought alongside their husbands and died on the battlefield at the age of 24
Present day post merging of the two lives:
The faeries of the Green-hill bring back Catriona into the new world
as something (the Stepmother) has reached Kate first,
they didn’t want to summon either of the princesses, but the princes have disappeared, due to Jubilee not existing, in this new version
the Mother Goose putting Old King Cole in the book, and his kingdom disappearing from the Neverafter [fairies and Catriona don’t know this]
in this world the Stepmother has stolen her human head and locked Kate away somewhere, stopping them both from escaping together
The second world Catriona had left her father’s castle on her own scared of her Stepmother who stole her head and of what the people would say of her sheep head.
Neither sister completed their set stories
Fairies task Catriona with finding the source of the stories going missing and bring it to them, for Catriona and Kate cannot have their happily ever after if their princes doesn’t exist
Throughout her journey in her second life, she has started to doubt the sincerity of the fairies, but for the major part still sees them as the preferable side and an opponent to The Stepmother
Returned around the same time as PCs despite dying much earlier than the group, the faeries were reluctant to employ a princess and spent more time trying to find other methods, the reluctance is noticeable to Catriona when she is in the in-between with the faeries of the Green-Hill
we'll see what happens in Tuffeton, but I think she would be tailing the party after hearing news of the disappearance of the massive spider that had taken the village previously
Her new body/skills
the stepmother still has her human head and in turn, Catriona now has the head of a ewe with curling horns she can use to ram her opponents. [Minotaur reskin]
she speaks with a sheepish lisp as she had to reteach herself how to speak common as she initially could only bleat when her head was stolen
she can speak to any type of sheep, and understands some goat tongue
This Catriona has been wondering the Neverafter after running away, studying magic as a force to rescue her sister, and combat the Stepmother [3rd level Fighter Eldritch Knight]
Break down of her Image
The head is of a Scottish Blackface sheep, where the ewes also have horns
The armour is believed to be dated around 1515 from Greenwich, England, and belonged to Henry VIII
The sword is a European sword dated around 1400AD
The page is from a 16th Century manuscript written in Latin, Scots, and Gaelic
Again all original art and character designs are by Giuseppe Lama
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