Role: Field Specialist, Rural Containment and Folklore Continuity
Background:
Originally a cultural anthropologist at the University of Bristol, Dr. Clara Fenn completed her doctoral research on “Customary Boundaries and Unnatural Borders: Post-Pagan Rural Practices in Southern England.” Her career took an unexpected turn in 2011 during fieldwork in Kent, where she inadvertently disrupted an active harvest rite by crossing a protective ring. A child vanished. Her detailed, unfiltered account—dismissed by academics but flagged by an FDG sympathiser—led to a quiet recruitment.
Since then, Fenn has served in a mobile capacity, primarily across rural and folkloric hot zones. Though viewed with suspicion by more conventionally trained operatives, her effectiveness is unquestioned. She possesses an uncanny instinct for pattern disruption and containment, particularly in incidents involving children or deeply local phenomena. Some believe she has second-sight. Fenn neither confirms nor denies it.
Skills:
Expert in rural lore systems, threshold pattern detection, and:
- Folkloric continuity management
- Non-invasive containment of emergent rituals
- Interviewing and stabilising child witnesses
- Symbolic disruption and counter-ritual deployment
She is fluent in rural dialects and often integrates seamlessly into isolated communities. Her containment techniques are unconventional—often relying on symbolic gestures or the preservation of myths rather than direct confrontation.
Personality:
Quiet, observant, and dry-witted, Fenn carries a profound respect for old stories and those who still believe them. She rarely reveals her emotions but maintains a fierce protective instinct for communities affected by fae activity. Unafraid to bend protocol when folklore proves more stable than fact. Believes that “some stories must be left standing”—a philosophy that sometimes puts her at odds with more clinical operatives.
Notable Traits:
- Always carries a weathered field journal with hand-pressed leaves and marginal notes
- Uses an analog dictaphone, claiming digital devices are unreliable “near the real places”
- Keeps a pocketful of knotted strings, each one tied to a resolved case—though not all of them by her hand
- Wears a silver wheatsheaf-and-thorn pin, origin unknown, likely symbolic
Motive:
To preserve the delicate balance between forgotten rites and the modern world. Fenn does not seek to banish the old powers, only to ensure they do not take what they no longer have the right to claim.
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