Sesil

Sesil is a mage in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). She waited for the band on their way back from Fauna's tribe, a robed woman with a tattoo on her neck, her apprentice standing a step behind her. When she told them she had been watching them, she explained that she had searched the roads by magic.^{1 2}

She introduced herself as Sesil; it was later explained that Cecil is in fact her family name. Her given name is not known.³

The inscription

Sesil described what the band was carrying as an inscription left by a very old heavenly being. If it were brought into the city, she argued, it would cause strife with the Coalition and with both churches, not only the Witnesses of Victory. She said she had no power to compel them and wished to have the stone by consent; asked whether her aims were purely good, she admitted that she had her orders from her superiors and did not herself know all of her order's interests.^{4 5 6 7}

In exchange she offered spell scrolls, gold or simple enchanted weapons, and one of her valuable scrolls apart from any bargain, as a sign of goodwill. Speaking silently into the mind of one of the band, she warned that the church members who had arrived would not let them go.^{8 9 10}

Her order

She spoke of masters, duties, secrecy and wide resources, and named her order in a word heard only unclearly. Her robe and neck tattoo point to the Archon, whose every mage bears a magical and unmistakable tattoo around the neck. The mage Albus Rodarius Willow later said that he had sent her and had been following events.^{1 7 11 12}

Her apprentice was a hooded young man who kept behind his mistress.¹

Spoiler: The fight on the roadRevealSpoils: Yeni Dünya #3.5; Yeni Dünya #4 · Say what you have read

When talk failed, a sword-bearing member of the church party struck at Sesil and gave her a grave wound in the chest, though she did not fall at once. She stopped her apprentice from reaching for the inscription, saying that even she would find it hard to handle; he caught a hammer blow on his arm with a sound of breaking bone, and later wounded an attacker badly with purple magic. Sesil tried to carry everyone away at once by magic and failed, and a heavy hammer blow brought her down.^{13 14 15 16 17}

When the dust settled, six bodies were counted, two of them the mages'; Sesil and her apprentice had died in the fight.¹⁸

Grand Master Sesil

The head of the Archon's office in Aquila is a Grand Master also called Sesil, or Cecil. She is a different person from the mage met on the road; whether the two are related is not known.^{19 3 20}