Nila Dhumat

Type
Person: NPC

Physical Description
Species: Thamesfolk

Gender: Female

Age: late-20s.

Heritage: Indian-English.

Appearance: dark blue skin, tall and skinny, large eyes.

Political Description
Faction: Thameshaven

Former Faction: Gentry

Personal Description
A former gentry socialite, Nila is a recent member of Thameshaven after being ostracized by her family due to her mutation. She has recently gotten work as Rachel Hall's secretary at Thameshaven's makeshift town hall—and has started dating Thamesfolk Camelot operative, Alban Roe. She is deeply uncomfortable with her new appearance, and carries a major chip on her shoulder against the Gentry (and increasingly the Fifth Column as well).

History
Raised as the cherished and pampered only child of a Gentry family, Nila enjoyed a childhood of luxury and loved being the center of attention, throwing lavish parties for her friends and attending just as many. However, a drunken misadventure on her twenty-first birthday with her friends led to her tumbling headfirst into the Thames, whereupon rather than killing her the toxic river mutated her into a Thamesfolk.

Horrified, waterlogged, presumed dead, and having ruined a very nice dress, Nila stumbled back into her grieving parents' house three days later, expecting to be if not accepted with open arms at least cared for as an invalid. Instead, her parents refused to acknowledge her as their daughter and drove her from their home. The first two friends she attempted to contact did the same.

Alone and ostensibly helpless, Nila's party-girl ways quickly evaporated into a burning rage against the Gentry. She sought refuge in Thameshaven and has since become a valued member of the community as Rachel's secretary, despite her discomfort with her appearance. She has recently started dating Camelot operative Alban Roe and agrees with many of Camelot's ideals, but is cynical that Camelot will ever really accept Thameshaven into broader London; in her opinion, since she would never have given a Thamesfolk the time of day when she was human, other humans are just as likely to turn on them now, too. Could go either way in supporting Rachel or Robert.