Christine McConnell

Contacts

Marla van Houten

Relationship: Ally

Marla's Place serves her pastries exclusively - she and Marla get along quite weirdly

The Gingerbread Man

Relationship: Ally

The Herald of my Lady Vestalia is a terrible baker but he's also the fastest courier in town

Guy Jacobson

Relationship: Ally

He's a reliable garbage man and an unreliable spellcaster

High Concept

Gothic Baking Queen

Additional Aspects

I serve pastries... and Vestalia

Motivation

Blend her love of the weird and the baked.

Face of Location

Lynchburg Bakery

Known to all the Paranet?

Yes

Biography

A master baker with a flair for the weird, McConnell makes the best tasting, strangest pastries in town. She dresses like a late-50's housewife, and is also a talented photographer, writer, artist, and model.

She’s Tim Burton—with a cake whisk.

She's also got a knack for magic. Originally, McConnell was simply a latent talent, who inadvertently put magic into her baking. Eventually, her work attracted the attention of an old power. Vestalia, a powerful Verdant Court Sidhe sorceress took an interest in McConnell. While it might well have played out along the lines of Arachne and Athena, Christine instead pledged herself to service of Vestalia in exchange for instruction in the arts of magic and baking.

McConnell doesn't seem to have an agenda for herself, but a pledge like that means that, one way or another, she will now serve the interests of her patron. It's wise to assume that Vestalia has longer range plans than some magic scones. There's also reason to believe that Vestalia is or once was Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth, and the Olympians were known for being at least as capricious as the Fae.

Christine in her kitchen