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.

The party’s researcher, and the one who found the deadline — and tonight her hands were nearly read by a room of strangers.

Location: At table, Garden Reach, Calcutta, evening of 9 October 1814 (Chapter 4, Session 9) — the dinner is unfinished Condition: Physically uninjured; the transformation has webbing between her fingers and the mark past the middle of the left forearm toward the elbow; white temple-streak unchanged; Sanity 65/65 (capped by Cthulhu Mythos 34) Carrying: Command Tuning Fork; Aelfric Brooch; paired swords; Revelations of Glaaki and Cultes Des Ghoules (both in use); hirz protective amulet; travelling kit Open threads:

• Her gloves drew attention at the Magistrate’s table and Emma covered for her, naming them a fashion. Society now has a story about her hands, and it survives exactly one more incident
• Standing POW roll whenever she hides or leaves the fork
• The fork’s counter-frequency is spent and cannot be retuned until she has been near the Baranagar node. The one place that can restore her instrument is the place changing her arm, and the invitation to go there was handed to Adrien
• She derived the ritual date alone, overnight, and has still not told the party how far the mark has spread
• Studying toward Contact Ghoul — weeks of work, not yet complete
• Dorothea Bexley, named by Harcourt as carrying a similar affliction, remains unpursued
• Her accidental “saint” reputation preceded her from Alexandria to Cairo; whether it reaches Calcutta is still open
• The Wentworth account. A letter from the family solicitor is waiting in Calcutta: two missed remittances, an evasive factor, and nobody at home able to act. The documents are hers where the rooms are Emma’s. See Chapter 4 Wentworth Account
• Holt left without acknowledging the debt for two patchings in one day Knows (exclusive): The ritual date — midnight, 25 October 1814, Kali Puja — derived by her from the Revelations of Glaaki, the Gazette’s weather reports and celestial alignment. Learned Enchant Knife from the Cultes Des Ghoules (casting untested); working through Shrivelling and now Contact Ghoul; her mother’s name, Cassandra Wentworth of Tarryford

On the Suez crossing (Chapter 4, Session 6) Georgiana was the party’s forensic engine in the Wadi al Tih murder: she read the yellow-brown sky and called the sandstorm before it hit, found the too-small footprints in the sand blown under Hewitt’s door, identified the opium residue in the bottle Freddy dug from the well, and established with Abu Yusef that no law existed to take the killer. No Mythos touched the desert and the fork stayed silent throughout; the transformation was harder to keep covered in the heat. The party now travels on with the confessed killer, Elizabeth Ashby, in company.

Riding out of Cairo before dawn on 20 September 1814 onto the Suez caravan road, after four days at the Auberge du Muski over Eid al-Fitr. Physically uninjured through the voyage and the Egypt leg. During the becalming south of Crete, when Katherine’s necrophobia broke her and Emma’s music mania carried her past the ritual’s intent, Georgiana alone spoke The Funeral Rite to completion and laid The Drowned to rest (Session 3). At Giza (Session 5), while the party sheltered from the heat outside, she alone went into the Great Pyramid — the 820 AD forced tunnel, the crawl through four-foot passages, the granite ascent by candlelight into the Grand Gallery’s soaring dark — an appetite for ancient, enclosed, resonant spaces that the Baranagar temple ahead will answer.

The transformation continues to advance. The iridescent mark on her left hand has spread past the wrist (Session 2, first noticed by Emma in the alcove lamplight) and past the edge of her gloves (Session 3, noticed by Rosa at Alexandria). At the Alexandria hammam (Hammam al Yasmin, Session 4) the mark was read by the bath-women as baraka — a blessing, not an affliction — and word of it has since travelled the city’s female networks ahead of the party. In Cairo (Session 5) that reputation had already outrun her: a queue of local women waited in the inn courtyard for her blessing — for a sick husband, for children, for a barren goat — with Sitt Nafisa marshalling and translating the line. The white temple-streak is unchanged. The fork remains on her person; it reached for her once during the voyage (Session 2) and she held it on a POW roll — the standing check whenever she hides or leaves the fork remains in effect. The fork’s Calcutta retuning, needed before it can be used against the Baranagar yantra, has not yet been undertaken.

SAN is now capped by the Mythos. With Cthulhu Mythos at 34, Georgiana’s maximum Sanity is 99 − 34 = 65, and her current total is set to that cap (Keeper ruling, 2026-07-18). The old 79 predated the Mythos gain — the Cultes Des Ghoules study, the becalming’s fear checks, and the funeral rite’s completion reward all pushed toward the ceiling, and she now sits against it.

Learned Enchant Knife from the Cultes Des Ghoules during the crossing (casting untested) and is working through Shrivelling. Bought a hirz protective amulet at the Alexandria souq (Session 4), inscribed against “the terrors of the water” and “the house of painted faces” — her fish and theatre phobias, taken seriously by the seller. The amulet’s matronymic prayer surfaced her mother’s name, Cassandra Wentworth of Tarryford, established at the table for the first time this chapter. Dorothea Bexley, an Order member Harcourt named as carrying a similar affliction for decades, remains an unpursued thread, reachable by letter or in person in England.

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.

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