Margaret Clitherow (“Iseult”)

Type
Person: NPC.

Physical Description
Species: Human

Gender: Female.

Age: 30s.

Heritage: English.

Appearance: Fair-haired, green-eyed, naturally quite pretty and frankly even stunning when dressed for an Industrialist-owners' event.

Political Description
Faction: Industrialist

Faction (secret): Camelot.

Personal Description
Co-head of training (her focus is combat); married to John "Tristan" Clitherow. An excellent soldier and tactician, deeply in love with her husband. Was born to an Industrialist workers family; now is "in" with the Industrialist management class.

History
Margaret Clitherow, née Gardener, was the only child of lower-working-class Industrialist parents. Her family had been employed since her grandfather's generation at the factory owned by the Clitherow family, attracted by the promise of room and board for work even if these wages were not strictly speaking proportionate to the labor done. When Gardner was sixteen, her father was killed in the Eastminster riots, and she was forced to cut her education short to become the family breadwinner and care for her ailing mother; Gardener nonetheless finished her education by herself, becoming an avid reader and self-educated expert on several subjects.

When she was twenty years old, Gardener saved a young John Clitherow from a potentially deadly accident while he was visiting the factory floor and in doing so stole his heart. After opening his eyes to the degrading conditions of the workers in his family's employ, Gardener also introduced Clitherow to Camelot. Clitherow agreed to work from within the upper class to improve the lives of his family's employees. He and Gardener convinced the Clitherow family that Margaret could be "improved" with some education and training, and, playing the part of a grateful rags-to-riches heroine, Gardener was eventually (mostly) accepted into the Clitherow family. This position allows them to give Camelot eyes and ears into the Industrial class. The Clitherows now consider Gardner an "almost" proper socialite, without any inkling of what their younger son and daughter-in-law actually think of the Gentry, or for that matter of the Industrialists' marriage of convenience with the Gentry.

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