Georgiana Wentworth

Personal Description: A young English gentlewoman of twenty, slight of frame but steady of hand. Her manner is composed, her gaze direct, and her posture carries the particular stillness of someone who listens before she speaks. She dresses simply by the standards of her station and wears no ornament save the Aelfric Brooch.

Source likeness (official Regency Cthulhu Investigator Pack pregen, Chaosium 2022, on which the character is based; see Portrait above): a plain, dark-haired young woman in a deep-toned empire-waist gown, usually with a book to hand, an elegant-but-plain dress and a fan among her things. The official line reads: “A very average-looking young white woman who does her best not to stand out during social gatherings.”

Traits: Sharp-minded and analytical. Approaches the supernatural with a scholar’s instinct to categorise before an investigator’s instinct to destroy. Willing to take social risks and absorb failure without retreat. Tactically sound in combat despite no formal military training. Carries a quiet warmth toward those she trusts that is expressed through action rather than words.

Ideology & Beliefs: Educated in the Church of England but increasingly defined by a rationalist’s faith in observation and evidence. The horrors she has witnessed have not destroyed her belief in an ordered world so much as expanded her understanding of how large and how indifferent that order truly is.

Significant People: Emma Wentworth (sister, constant companion since Tarryford); Nikolai Volkonsky (bond forged through shared intelligence and shared survival at the masquerade); Lord Percival Harcourt (Order commander, recruited her after Northlake Hall).

Meaningful Locations: Tarryford, Wiltshire (home); Northlake Hall (where the investigations began); Hartwell House, London (Order training and residence); Palais Lobkowitz (the masquerade, the Wachter combat, the fork).

Treasured Possessions: The Aelfric Brooch, symbol of Order initiation. The Command Tuning Fork, taken from Adler’s grip at Palais Lobkowitz and carried since. A pair of swords she drew in her nightgown against a Nightgaunt.

• Cleaver wound to the shoulder (Chapter 2 — Lyon, Orphans’ Hospital raid). A surgeon’s apprentice struck her during the basement assault. The wound healed but the scar remains.
• The transformation (permanent, advancing). A white streak in her hair and an iridescent patch of skin on her left hand, taken on at the destruction of the Harmonic Engine (Session 14). By the Calcutta voyage the iridescence has crept past the wrist (Emma noticed it in the alcove lamplight, Session 2) and continues toward the forearm.

• Theatre (acquired Chapter 0.5 — Drury Lane, December 1813). Fear of the enclosed architecture of theatres, born from the time loop and the mirror beneath the stage.
• Fish (acquired Chapter 0.6 — The Viscount Who Loved Me, May 1814). Instinctive revulsion toward anything piscine, rooted in whatever she encountered in the river and the siren’s cave beneath Bath.

• Horrors (Chapter 0.1, Northlake Hall). Squat, headless, fur-covered creatures with fanged mouths on their torsos. First encounter with the supernatural. Performed the blood ritual to close the portal.
• Nightgaunt (Session 6, Palais Kinsky). Faceless, oily, bat-winged creature from the dreamlands. Georgiana fought it with swords in her nightgown and identified it from the Revelations of Gla’aki.
• Harmonische Wachter (Sessions 8-9, Palais Lobkowitz). Bronze-scaled creatures, the failed by-products of the Brotherhood’s integration process. Georgiana raked one with her sword, hamstrung Adler who controlled them, and briefly established a psychic link with a surviving Wachter through the command fork — seeing through its alien senses at the cost of 1 SAN.
• Formless Spawn (Chapter 2, Maison du Corbeau, Lyon). Witnessed during a child sacrifice at the masked soiree. The investigators observed but did not intervene.

• Revelations of Gla’aki — read; used to identify the Nightgaunt during the Session 6 attack at Palais Kinsky. The tome was confiscated by the Polizeidirektion in Session 4 and recovered during the Session 10 heist.
• Cultes Des Ghoules — carried as part of the party’s Mythos library; under active study during the Calcutta voyage (Chapter 4). Learned Enchant Knife by the time the party reached Trieste (untested — first casting remains a separate undertaking); now working through Shrivelling.

• Emma Wentworth — Sister. Inseparable since Tarryford. The other longest-running PC in the campaign.
• Adrien de Montferrand — French Vicomte, fellow investigator since the road to Vienna.
• Varrio Harrowmont — Italian operative. Mutual warmth since his dissociative episode and the Italian poem (Session 3).
• Katherine Ward — Order operative, arrived Session 7. Carried the fork before handing it to Georgiana.
• Freddy Cavendish — English gentleman, joined the party Session 6 after Colonel Moreau’s death.

MAJOR — On Surlish’s floor beneath the Strand godowns, four men in yellow sashes backed away in fear when she raised her marked hand to them.

Location: The Dak Bungalow on the Chitpur Road at Baranagar, the night of Thursday 13 October 1814, after fleeing Ghosh’s house (Chapter 4, Session 15) Condition: Physically uninjured; the transformation has webbing between her fingers and the mark past the middle of the left forearm; white temple-streak unchanged; Sanity 65/65 (capped by Cthulhu Mythos 34). At the ball, under the hum, the fork tried to come to her hand and she held it off. Her hand was shown openly to family for the first time at breakfast — Hugh, Meg and Major Renwick saw it alongside the Gazette notice Carrying: Bagh nakh (tiger claws) and a katar, bought on Iron Lane; an iron fire poker and a dagger, both used against the Mi-Go; Command Tuning Fork; Aelfric Brooch; paired swords; Revelations of Glaaki and Cultes Des Ghoules (both in use); hirz protective amulet; Venns Daybook and the Pnakotic Manuscripts (both unread); the Salisbury letter; shawls from a Baranagar weaver’s stall; her tinderbox, holding a sample of the residue from the cot on Surlish’s floor; travelling kit Open threads:

• The cylinder from the Zorab sale holds a dead man. At Thursday’s breakfast every fitting was seated and the brain gave no response at all; Meg put it plainly: there was a person in it, and the person is dead. It stays at the Cavendish Compound with Freddy and Katherine while the others go upriver. One Mi-Go escaped on Wednesday night, and the creatures got the instrument case
• Dr Venn was left drugged in his own study with his notes scattered round him, and the Zorabs have been told he is to blame for Gregor’s state
• She took Venns Daybook and the Pnakotic Manuscripts from Dr Venn’s study and has read neither
• She was entranced by the Mi-Go’s buzzing until Adrien stopped her ears with wax
• She extended her silver-webbed hand to a swarm of begging children in Fish Lane, and they fell back calling out blessings in Hindi, then followed the party at a respectful distance the rest of the day. First time the transformation has been shown to strangers, unplanned, and read as sacred rather than feared — a live question about what it means and who else might read it that way
• Surlish’s floor, beneath the godowns on The Strand: a cordoned area by a private river dock, with opium chests stencilled for Baranagar and a rope cot stained with a pale residue that glimmers in lamplight. A stone drain runs from under the cot to the river, and her marked hand felt a hum in the water. Mullick hurried them out. Thomas covered her while she took a sample of the residue in her tinderbox. See Absentee Account Pattern, Ramkanta Sett
• Harriet Courtney gave the pattern a name: Harry Ord, vanished nine years ago, and pointed toward the Chandpal Ghat registers for the others
• Diana warned her a third time — this time about her tongue regarding Mr Cartwright, “five hundred, not forty” — still unresolved whether she changes anything about it
• Pargeter’s letter to their father arrived Tuesday, unopened as far as the notes record. See Pargeter Letter to Sir Nathaniel
• The gloves-as-fashion cover no longer applies inside the household — Hugh, Meg and Renwick have now seen the hand for what it is at breakfast. Whether wider Calcutta still reads it as fashion is untested
• Renwick is briefed and warned not to go outside — recruited into the party’s confidence after the breakfast revelation
• Somebody removed Roy’s articles from the Gazette’s bound volumes. She found the gap. Roy lives at Maniktala — visited this session by Katherine, Elizabeth and Adrien
• She heard Ratan screaming from the dinner table and nobody else did — unresolved
• She announced the unconscious Cartwright to the whole company at the carriages and Diana rebuked her for it. Calcutta has a second story about her now, and it is not about gloves
• Her date was handed back to her at table as a policing problem by a man who has no idea what he confirmed
• Hale’s lights and chanting, ten till six, almost every night, and Mrs Wright’s singing across the water at three, are now the party’s
• The burial ground on Circular Road holds a grim trade — bodies stolen nightly and sold to ship’s surgeons, per the old watchman Gopal Chowkidar
• Standing POW roll whenever she hides or leaves the fork. Studying toward Contact Ghoul. Dorothea Bexley unpursued. She has still not told the party how far the mark has spread
• A pale sheet lay on the water in the last mile below Baranagar, and head-sized globes rose from it, shimmering like oil, each with the suggestion of a mouth, while a low note came up through the boat’s planks. Adrien calmed the boatmen and took the boat round by the western bank. One boatman began humming the same note and kept looking back at the water
• The yellow-sashed men backed away from her hand, as the Fish Lane children did, and Mullick was on that floor minutes later
• She laid her hand bare at Ghosh’s table, in front of the party and the household: webbing, scales creeping toward the forearm, a middle knuckle out of line. Her hand tingled and pulsed with the chanting. Ghosh told her she is achieving samapti and invited her to join them. Pratap wrapped it again afterwards
• Ghosh showed his hand at his own dinner table. He said his cult is in every rung of the government, the Company, the army and the judiciary, and that the ritual on the night of Kali opens a gate for Yog-Sothoth. His servants held the party in their chairs while four of them merged into Kaunitz and gave him back distorted and broken, Ghosh’s servant now. Ghosh showed his own arm, a tentacle with fronds from the elbow down, called the party not worth the trouble of killing, and left. The party fled to the Dak Bungalow
• Elizabeth was found staring at the middle of Ghosh’s table, white and shaking, and had to be guided out. Earlier she had shown the sisters her karambit knives and told them of her years on a quest for vengeance
• Two heavy thumps landed on the compound roof late on Thursday night, as Katherine’s palanquin came back through the gates. The cylinder is in Emma’s room in the West House Knows (exclusive): The ritual date, midnight, 25 October 1814, Kali Puja, derived by her. Enchant Knife learned (untested); Shrivelling and Contact Ghoul in progress; her mother’s name, Cassandra Wentworth of Tarryford. She alone heard the low hum under the ball’s music at Government House and worked out that the changed men in the carriage line were drawn to it. At breakfast she worked out that the surviving Mi-Go will likely come back for its makers’ work. Ghosh’s invitation to her, at his own table, to join them.

Georgiana, September 1814 — the white temple-streak (Vienna ritual) and the iridescent transformation spreading past her left wrist, one glove drawn off. Original art; the campaign’s public-facing likeness.

At Goupil’s masquerade, Georgiana recognised Goupil’s personal stories as borrowed Greek myths. In the ritual chamber, Georgiana recognised the significance of the Orphic and Sumerian musical inscriptions set into the black marble floor.

{Player-facing notes. Protected — skills never modify.}