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. She carried a golden locket to remember her family by.[1] 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[2], where she set up shop out of the Black Boar Inn.[3]

Although strikingly beautiful, Mika was also lonely, due to her ambitions distancing society from her. At home in Il Aluk, she was mocked and ridiculed.[4] More respected in Nartok, she nonetheless became slandered by accusations of witchcraft.[5] When an angry mob eventually formed, Wort intervened, driving them off[6] and making sure she was not attacked again. Grateful and wishing to reciprocate his help in return, she tracked him down[7] and, despite his efforts to rebuff her, eventually earned his friendship. She saw in him a gentle, misunderstood soul and wanted to heal his hunchback.[8] for his part, Wort's feelings were very mixed, seeing in her the angel he saw on an ancient tapestry yet also disregarding her genuineness of ever having sympathy for a deformed "monster".[9]

At the same time, Baron Caidin], who was unknown to her Wort's brother, took notice of Mika's beauty and became determined to win her affections. He eventually seduced her, inadvertently bringing a jealous Wort to turn back to the Bell of Doom and resume his quest for vengeance against the world that spurned him.[10] Mika eventually discovered Wort's ongoing corruption by the Bell. Not knowing Caidin's hatred of Wort, Mika went to the baron for assistance, telling him of the Bell in return for Caidin's oath of nonviolence toward Wort. Caidin had no intention of honoring such a promise.[11]

After hearing Caidin's true intentions from Irsyla and Jadis, Mika rode out to intervene with Wort. On her way, she survived a riding accident that claimed the life of her pony. She later arrived at the stables and took a horse, riding out Caidin's mobile Tower of Doom to find Wort and Caidin already in the struggle to kill each other. Caidin mistakenly unleashed the Spirits of the Bell upon Mika. However, they were all destroyed by Mika's purity, her innocence lifting the Curse upon them and the Bell. The backlash caused the Bell to come crashing down. It crushed the baron flat.[12]

Mika attempted to dissuade Wort from following his corrupt brother's example and seizing control of the Tower, but he brushed her words aside. In fact, he quite literally threw her aside, placing her on the horse and sending it out as a distraction to the zombies pursuing him. He knew the distraction would buy him some time but that her innocence would protect her from the zombies.[13]


Wort seized the Soulstone and commanded the Tower to walk, but he didn't notice that the zombies had already infiltrated the Tower. Unable to reassert control quick enough to keep the Tower from going off Morrged's Leap, Wort and his zombie attackers plunged down into the crevice below. In the chaos of the incident, Mika was thrown from her horse and fell unconscious, seemingly dying in her estimate.[13]

Current Sketch

In the epilogue of the Tower of Doom book, a figure known as the Angel of the Moor heals many of the injured or helps many of the lost, such as Steffan.. She is alternately described as horrifically hideous or majestically beautiful. The Angel carries a golden locket. Though she is marked by a injury that warped her left shoulder into a hunchback, its contrast with her warm face and striking violet eyes accentuates her beauty rather than detracts from it.[14]

Provided Mika still lives in the modern Ravenloft timeline as a mortal, Mika would be very old.

References

  1. ↑ Tower of Doom p. 88, 200, 232
  2. ↑ ToD p. 83
  3. ↑ ToD p. 87-91
  4. ↑ ToD p. 127
  5. ↑ ToD p. 99-100
  6. ↑ ToD p. 104-109
  7. ↑ p. 124-127
  8. ↑ ToD p. 128
  9. ↑ ToD p. 104-105, 128-129
  10. ↑ p. 211-216
  11. ↑ ToD p. 238-242
  12. ↑ ToD p. 282-301
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 ToD p. 302-310
  14. ↑ ToD p. 313-315

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

Tower of Doom

Tower of Doom - pp 84-91,Throughout

Angel of the Moor


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