# Mother Vyre — The Absent Leader

**Look:** Never appears in the Nether Inn; present through elegant handwriting, dead drops, annotations, and the convictions she planted in others.
**Vibe:** A distant, sincere visionary whose certainty makes every compromise sound necessary.

- Truly believes the planes should be merged; she is not a charlatan
- Recruits through grief, curiosity, anger, and disillusionment, then turns each wound into leverage
- Knows Xarrul's binding failed and considers it an acceptable proof-of-concept setback
- Handwriting on Haddon's dead-drop messages matches annotations in a cult table book (DC 16 Investigation)

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**Presence at the Table**

- **Haddon** turns atrocity into research vocabulary and carries her Phase Two logistics.
- **Dalla** believes Vyre can restore Nessa; the experiment actually caused and preserved her condition.
- **Rennt** treats Vyre as the first person who gave his anger meaning.
- **Essek** has read enough of her private correspondence to know the Opening is real and scheduled.

**Do not stage an appearance.** Vyre's function in this oneshot is to remain outside the sealed house while her choices fracture the people inside it.

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