Meg Plum

A large, fat, old woman, her silvery grey hair tied at her neck, Meg Plum labours constantly in Friars Gate courtyard, washing and drying clothes, surrounded by children and usually talking to the local women. Old Meg owns a boarding house, the top floor of which is currently rented by Cristobal Sebastiani and Franco Ballenciaga whilst Meg lives on the ground and first floor along with Molly Cutlerstub (rumoured to be a relative of some kind) and her five children. Meg is something of a local fixture, not least for the women and children of the neighbourhood, and many consider her a healer for she knows a great many old remedies and folk cures for all manner of ailments. Rumoured to have once been a prostitute herself, Meg also provides the meals for the girls at the Red Fox. Always busy, always smilling. Meg is apparently wealthy enough to own her own house, but she dresses in the old worn out garments of a char woman.

Cristobal Sebastiano

Large, muscular, heavy set. Grim faced and a generally unsavoury man to behold. A mysterious Castelopean monk of the Church of Holy Law, in recent weeks, Cristobal Sebastiano has been living in Old Meg’s Guest room along with his companion, Franco Ballenciaga. Both men have been seen walking the streets of the Armorial Quarter at night and local gossip is rife with speculation and suspicion. Rumours of homosexuality were quickly discarded.

Cristobal wears the common brown cassock of a monk and at his belt hangs a rapier.