Charlotte Thorne

Player: Juel. Chapters played: 0.6 (Bath), 1 (London), 2 (Lyon), 3 (Vienna, through Session 6). Replacement character: Katherine Ward (Session 7 onward). Joined at the Huntley wedding in Bath (The Viscount Who Loved Me), Juel’s character after Jane Radcliffe’s death at Drury Lane.

Charlotte was one of the five original investigators of the campaign, alongside Marina Garrick, Emma Wentworth, Georgiana Wentworth, and Augustus Bolt. She came to the Order of St. Aelfric as a Northumberland heiress — steady, perceptive, educated, and deeply skeptical of the supernatural. Her character arc was the arc of rationalist disarmament: beginning as the investigator most committed to a mundane explanation of the Orphean Society’s horror, and ending as the investigator most comprehensively wounded by a direct Mythos encounter.

When the investigators accompanied Francis Fable to the church, a watchman discovered them trying to enter. They bluffed their way past him and gained entry.

During the Stonehenge confrontation, Hume struck Charlotte with Spectral Razor, cutting her diagonally from shoulder to hip. In Paris she sought clothing to cover the scar.

In Paris, Emma and Charlotte overheard two men whose identities they did not then know. The men were later established as Antoine Lefèvre and Luc Fouchard. Emma also persuaded Thomas Wyndham, who hoped to marry her, to abandon his intended leave in England and accompany them from Paris.

• Chapter 1 (London): One of the original five. Present at the Stonehenge ritual disruption.
• Chapter 2 (Lyon): Bitten by a ciimba during the Silkweavers Guild Assault. The bite was treated and did not cause disease. Got lost in the tunnels beneath the Guild after fleeing the attack and encountered the Silent Nun — the same spectral figure Marina had seen on the first tunnel expedition. Charlotte found her way to Savarin’s headquarters (“Plan” on the tunnel map) and recovered the intelligence pointing to Herzfeld in Vienna — the discovery that launched Chapter 3.
• Chapter 3, Sessions 1–5 (Vienna): Active investigator. Present for Trautmannsdorff’s confession (Session 5). Persuaded Trautmannsdorff’s butler to let the party in — the key social roll that opened the confession.
• Chapter 3, Session 6 (Nightgaunt Attack on Palais Kinsky): Wounded severely by the Nightgaunt — three-clawed slash across the shoulder. See Nightgaunt Attack Palais Kinsky for the full event record.
• Chapter 3, Session 7 (Retirement): Wrote formal retirement letters to Harcourt and Honoria. Debriefed Katherine Ward under laudanum sedation — provided the full accounting of London and Lyon operations. Remained at Palais Kinsky under Pemberton’s care when the rest of the party relocated to the Gasthof Weisser Ochsen.

Charlotte was the campaign’s rationalist anchor — the voice of “there must be a mundane explanation.” Her transition from skeptic to wounded veteran gave the party a moral weight other PC arcs could not provide. When Charlotte said, in Session 6 or 7, that something could not be explained rationally, the campaign treated that as a threshold crossed.

Her retirement by wound rather than death is a gentler PC transition than Marina’s or Augustus’s. It leaves Charlotte available as a recurring NPC, an emotional anchor for Juel (now playing Katherine), and a potential plot hook (recovery arc, return to service in Chapter 4 Calcutta if Juel or the Keeper wants).

(To be filled in from Juel’s Chapter 3 character sheet. Placeholder — copy from the last live session sheet.)

• Charlotte Thorne NPC — NPC file (current status, availability for scenes)
• player characters — campaign roster
• Nightgaunt Attack Palais Kinsky — the wounding event
• Whispers, Widows, and Wounded Warriors — retirement scene, Katherine Ward’s arrival, debriefing