### Details:

**Name**: Hedda Wickwhistle, Guildmother Weaver  
**Race**: [[Humans|Human]]  
**Age**: 68  
**Gender**: Female  
**Core personality**: Fiery, pragmatic, protective of her guild; sharp tongue but warm heart for workers.  
**Location**: [[Voxiu]], [[Cotton Row Market]]

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### Appearance:

- **Build & Stature:** Short, wiry, hunch-backed from decades at the loom.
- **Hair:** Steel gray, worn in a tight bun.
- **Eyes:** Green and piercing, quick to narrow in suspicion.
- **Skin:** Leathery and calloused with dye stains faintly embedded.
- **Apparel:** Sturdy wool dress, patched apron with spindle-pin brooch.
- **Distinguishing Features:** Always with a spindle tucked behind her ear.

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### Voice & Speech:

- **Tone & Pitch:** Raspy contralto.
- **Mannerisms:** Wags finger for emphasis; calls people “child” regardless of age.

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### Motivations & Goals:

- **Primary motivation:** Protect the livelihood of Voxiu’s weavers from automation.
- **Fears / Dangers:** Losing relevance of her guild under [[Vexen Overview|Vexen]] policies.
- **Personal Quests or Secrets:** Keeps private correspondence with [[Belter Overview|Belter]] party organizers, secretly funding rallies.

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### Background:

- **Origin:** Born in Voxiu, orphaned and apprenticed at 8 to a weaving hall.
- **History:** Rose to guildmother post after decades of labor advocacy.
- **Current Occupation:** Head guildmother of Voxiu Textile Weavers.

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### Associations:

- **Allegiances & Factions:** Belter-sympathizer (Secretive).
- **Allies & Friends:** Old weaving hall networks, Cotton Row vendors.
- **Rivals & Enemies:** Vexen traders, [[Sea Bastion Docks|Sea Bastion]] dockmaster [[Captain Rill Dross - Sea Bastion Docks|Rill Dross]].
- **Contacts & Networks:** Underground union captains in the Winding Gates.

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### Notes & Flavor

- Calls [[Automatons|automatons]] “clanks” with venom.
- Wants the PCs to “carry banners that speak truth” against Vexens.