🌙 Kaivela of the Evil Eye
Clan: Ravnos
Demeanor: Visionary
Apparent Age: Late 20s
🎭 Concept
Kaivela arrives in Poitiers several times a year with her caravan, setting up just beyond the city walls near the Road to Tours or along the Via Turonensis pilgrimage route, trading exotic goods, minor trinkets, fortune telling, and cures.
She cultivates an air of superstitious dread and curiosity, using her reputation as “The Woman with the Evil Eye” to control negotiations. Nobles might seek her out for secret readings. Superstitious merchants and even Cainites avoid offending her.
Description:
A Romani woman in her late 20s stands at the edge of a moonlit encampment. Her layered, tattered but beautiful clothing mixes deep reds, dark greens, and purple fabrics with silver-threaded embroidery. Heavy silver bracelets and rings jingle on her arms. A cloth headscarf, decorated with beads and charms, hides part of her dark curly hair. One of her eyes is dark brown; the other pale gray—both unnervingly intense. Her skin is sun-burnished, her cheekbones high, her gaze almost hypnotic. She holds a string of colorful glass beads and amulets in one hand and a small pouch of bone dice in the other. The lighting is nocturnal, with firelight from nearby campfires casting flickering, dramatic shadows across her face. The art style is dark fantasy realism with a focus on texture and atmosphere.