Lucretia Mathias#

Role: Leader, Followers of the Falling Fire
Location: Saint Selena’s Monastery (inner city)
Description: Older woman, austere bearing, simple linen shawl worn for years. Carries a thick tome. Wears a pendant with an orange-pulsing crystal. A pulsing purple glow is visible beneath her clothing — the delerium shard she plunged into her own heart when she founded the sacrament.
Affiliation: Followers of the Falling Fire

Log

Session 6
- (Not met) Nathaniel Flint said she would grant a boon to whoever retrieves the Scepter of Saint Vitruvio. Katja Braun’s acolytes were sent on her authority.
Session 7
- Met at Champion’s Gate among a gathering of Falling Fire pilgrims
- Delivered her philosophy of delirium as salvation: the meteor was foreseen, its coming has purpose, those who receive the sacrament are elevated
- Examined the Scepter of Saint Vitruvio; returned it to Heda, calling him a “caretaker” — she did not claim it for the Falling Fire
- Offered to cure the party’s contamination in exchange for finding missing disciple Balthazar Adamos
- Cured Theobroma, Margareta, and Cory; Heda chose to retain his blindsight mutation
- Sent the party to the Black Ivory Inn (NE Drakkenheim, across the Drann River)

Key Info

Ten years before the meteor struck, she had a vision of it — told everyone, was not believed
Was the first to take the Falling Fire sacrament (plunging a delerium shard into her own heart); is now immune to the haze
Has the power to cure contamination (at minimum at the level the party received at Champion’s Gate)
Distinguishes between “wearing” delirium and “embracing” it — the sacrament is a choice and a transformation, not a punishment
Believes the coronation of Drakkenheim’s throne matters; Falling Fire pamphlet references restoring the royal families
Wants Balthazar Adamos found; her congregation is too busy with pilgrims to spare anyone

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