Okay, so here's my stream-of-consciousness on where Maria come from.
I was thinking, Okay, Cygna is traveling from England to Castile kinda the long but easier way, going water as much as possible 'cause that's how she rolls. But she doesn't speak Spanish. Nor does Terrence, nor Celestia. Hunh. And odds are that neither of the shield grogs that Riversedge sent with her to get her there safely and then come back do either. Wait a minute...you have an established (narrative) character who's Spanish. I had almost forgotten about her.
I kinda liked Maria...wonder if I should keep her or not? le browse the forum Whoa...the old geezers have absolutely no clue how to do guard duty. Kinda reminds me of the guy at the bank on The Andy Griffith Show who was like 102. Yeah...Maria sees that, she's going to want to stay. But why, in-character? If she had nothing to live for back in England maybe. le think okay...the incident was in 1179. She'd be in her late 50s now? No, wait...we're only in 1213. That's...no wait, Riversedge was founded in 1179...add 12 for when the imp thing happened, that's 1191 from 1213 that's 22, so, yeah, she can be like 38 or 39...call it 39, what the heck? le tinker with MetaCreator Okay, that works. Hope they let me keep her without making me pay points for her...should be able to since I don't think you pay points for actual characters. Okay, let's run it up the flagpole and see what happens, make sure they don't have a problem with her before I put her on the wiki.
Yeah...can you tell I'm tired and been reading too much Memebase lately? Night, everybody.