Madame Helena the Mystic

Introduction

Fortune telling cleric of fate; trickery domain, a well known oracle.

"The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend"

What We've Learned

Madam Helena conducts tarot readings and works strange jewelry from monster remains, her telekinetic talents growing increasingly noticeable.

She carries the Amulet of Whispering Stars, a cult artifact with powerful psionic properties: the ability to cast Detect Thoughts once per long rest, telepathic communication with any visible creature, and advantage on all Insight checks.

During an encounter with the hag Auntie Dirtha Bonebender, Helena briefly lost all memory of her companions when her magic touched the hag's dark bargain. The Hermit card she drew in the desert was not coincidence, but intervention.

Her spirit guardians manifest as figures of the Hermit and the Kings of Wands and Pentacles. She remains shaken by the hag's attention.

From Grit's collection, she received a Mind Sharpener to help maintain concentration on her spells.

The Bone Deck: With Dirtha's defeat in the king's chamber of the Sunken Pyramid, Helena lifted the hag's bone-card deck from the sand and tucked it into her own. Whatever Dirtha read with those cards, Helena now carries — and the moment she did, Dirtha's two sisters stepped through the wall to collect their dead. They did not glance at the party. The question of what they might want from the new keeper of their sister's deck is open.

She also carries The Scales of Ma'at, the bronze censer once meant for Anu's burial — and Anu himself, the cat-priest of King Ramkheret, who allowed her to scoop him out of the dissolving pyramid with the air of someone who had been waiting for the right person to find him.