Mika

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Mika is a major character from the novel Tower of Doom. She, her husband Geordin, and their daughter Katalia lived in Il Aluk. Her husband and her daughter were claimed by the Crimson Death Epidemic in 688 BC. In the same year Mika enrolled in the medicine at the University of Il Aluk. In 693 BC she moves to Nartok and begins practicing medicine at an inn called the Black Boar. Subsequently, she would roam the Moors outside Nartok and become known as the "Angel of the Moor."

Biography

As previously mentioned, Mika survived her family's deaths to the Crimson Death plague. Educated in Il Aluk at the University of Il Aluk as a healer, she was nonetheless laughed at and dismissed by her colleagues for being a woman entering the medical profession. She subsequently left the big city, hoping to find people in need of her skills in the provinces. Her travels took her to Nartok, then a village, where she set up shop out of the Black Boar Inn.

Although strickingly beautiful, Mika was also lonely, due to her ambitions distancing society from her. At home in Il Aluk, she was mocked and ridiculed. More respected in Nartok, she nonetheless became slandered by accusations of witchcraft. When an angry mob eventually formed, Wort intervened, driving them off and making sure she was not attacked again. Grateful and wishing to reciprocate his help in return, she tracked him down and, despite his efforts to rebuff her, eventually earned his friendship.

At the same time, Barom Caidin], who was unknown to her Wort's brother, took notice of Mika's beauty and became determined to win her affections.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

Tower of Doom

Tower of Doom - pp 84-91,Throughout

Angel of the Moor