# Dalla — The Desperate Parent

**Look:** Pale, exhausted woman in her early thirties; long sleeves hide a lattice of monthly ritual scars.
**Vibe:** Defensive loyalty powered by one need: bring her daughter Nessa home.

- Default: supports the Order and willingly supplies blood to rebind Xarrul
- Conduit note: learns the Order siphoned Nessa through her → refuses more blood, turns on Haddon, hears Xarrul out
- E–III note: learns Vyre caused and preserved Nessa's condition → breaks with the Order
- After the truth, favors Xarrul's promised rescue; Essek favors Ethereal destruction and warns of recoil risk
- Rebinding: holds the blood-response station; stopping without a completed handoff deals 2d6 psychic to each other active ritualist
- Xarrul truthfully tells her that a restored binding resumes the drain on Nessa

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| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA | AC | HP | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +2 | +0 | 11 | 22 | 30 ft. |

**Skills:** Medicine/Insight +4, Arcana +3
**Spellcasting:** 2nd level, WIS; DC 12, +4 spell attack. **Slots:** 1st 3.

**Spells**

- **Cantrips:** *spare the dying, guidance*
- **1st:** *cure wounds, detect evil and good, sanctuary*

**What She Shares**

- Freely: Nessa's condition, eight months of blood, failed summoning, belief in the Opening.
- Sympathetic audience: Order doctrine, Haddon plans to rebind a fiend, her blood powered it.
- Only after breaking: Xarrul's name, full ritual, Phase Two, cult safehouse, blood schedule and binding details.

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