NPC Focus - Éloise Bélanger

Éloise Bélanger

    Éloise Bélanger owns and runs a fairly popular inn, Le Chat Endormi (The Sleeping Cat). Most people assume that Éloise named the inn after a regular housecat, but it's actually named after the fact that she's a werepanther. She was afflicted with lycanthropy when just a child, and for years had problems with the disease. Now, however, she wears a small magical charm (given to her by the wizard Kelwyn) that prevents her from assuming her were form no matter the phase of the moon. If she removes it, however, she's able to fully assume both hybrid and animal form as she wishes. She makes no secret of her condition, but at the same time makes sure to let people know they have nothing to fear from her.

    Éloise always makes sure that the rooms of her inn are clean and tidy, that the beds are soft and large enough to sleep two, and even offers a complimentary breakfast in the morning until ten. Her regular rooms are offered at 3 gp per bed per evening, but she has four large rooms with exceptional accommodations that she offers for 10 gp per bed per evening. These come with a complimentary lunch as well as a breakfast. For the poor she offers shelter in the common room with a soft bedroll and breakfast for 2 sp per evening. The inn is warm and always smells of beer, freshly baked bread and the sandalwood incense she enjoys so much.

    Intentionally single, Éloise hopes to one day start a family. She's incredibly wary of her condition, however, and has absolutely no desire to pass it along to her offspring. She has paid to have the curse of lycanthropy removed, but no matter how many times Remove Curse is cast upon her, the disease stays with her (the reason for this is unknown). She continues to hope that one day she will be free of the curse, but until then she will take every day as it comes to her and face it with a smile and a good mood.

Éloise on the rare occasion she changes form