Big Mamma Green
Big Mamma Green runs the Blacktide detail at Murder Gardens, and her sheer size makes her feel like part of the site's structure. She is an Iron who tops seven feet, and she carries a bodily authority that has people stepping aside before they have quite decided to. Her troops call her Mamma with reason: the same might she turns on the dead she turns, off the line, to caring for her own, seeing their whisky poured and their plates filled before she takes anything for herself. In a place ground down by exhaustion and unrelenting horror, that habit has won her the devotion only a leader who truly shields their people ever earns.
She is built for the work in every sense, partial to shotguns and heavy sledgehammers, and she walks into a breach like someone long since convinced that fear is an indulgence for anyone not planted in front of a wall of the dead. Every new Blacktide hunter eventually hears the story of the day the front went past hopeless, when she sent her people clear, drenched herself in zombie attractant, and lit a cigar off the flare that dropped a broken arrow strike squarely onto her position before she vanished into fire and rotting flesh. She came back out of the smoke two hours on, the cigar still burning, and the old red glow beneath an Iron's skin now carried a blue-green cast that never fully faded. From that day, no one in the camp has doubted who stands last when a retreat is finally called.
She is built for the work in every sense, partial to shotguns and heavy sledgehammers, and she walks into a breach like someone long since convinced that fear is an indulgence for anyone not planted in front of a wall of the dead. Every new Blacktide hunter eventually hears the story of the day the front went past hopeless, when she sent her people clear, drenched herself in zombie attractant, and lit a cigar off the flare that dropped a broken arrow strike squarely onto her position before she vanished into fire and rotting flesh. She came back out of the smoke two hours on, the cigar still burning, and the old red glow beneath an Iron's skin now carried a blue-green cast that never fully faded. From that day, no one in the camp has doubted who stands last when a retreat is finally called.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The story that fixed Big Mamma Green's legend in the camp is the one whispered to every new Blacktide hunter at Murder Gardens. There came a day when the front went past bad and into hopeless, the kind of collapse that ends with a whole team pulled down into the dead. She refused to let it end that way. She cleared her people out, then soaked herself in zombie attractant to pull the horde onto her alone, lit a cigar off the flare that dropped an artillery strike onto her own ground, and vanished into fire and corpses while her squads escaped.
She stepped back out of the smoke two hours on, the same cigar still burning. Whatever she passed through in there left its mark: the red glow that had always run under an Iron's skin now carried a strange blue-green cast, and it never fully faded. She has commanded the Murder Gardens operation since, and the story does the work that no order ever could. It is why her people follow her into the worst of it, and why not one of them doubts that when a retreat finally has to be called, Mamma will be the last one standing between them and the dead.
She stepped back out of the smoke two hours on, the same cigar still burning. Whatever she passed through in there left its mark: the red glow that had always run under an Iron's skin now carried a strange blue-green cast, and it never fully faded. She has commanded the Murder Gardens operation since, and the story does the work that no order ever could. It is why her people follow her into the worst of it, and why not one of them doubts that when a retreat finally has to be called, Mamma will be the last one standing between them and the dead.
The seven-foot Iron who commands the Blacktide at Murder Gardens, called Mamma for the care she turns on her troops and half-legend for the day she made herself bait.
Strain
Irons
Role
Commander of the Blacktide operation at Murder Gardens
Affiliation
Blacktide Hunters (Lucy's Chosen)
Base of Operations
Murder Gardens, Harbormarch
Favored Arms
Shotguns and sledgehammers
Children
