Sister Ines Quiteria

Crawler #8,199,462, Level 47: a Discalced Carmelite nun reborn as a Havana brown Cat Girl, the only race that boosted the charisma behind her Word Weaver spell and unlocked the Poet Laureate class. She leads the trio Carl and Donut meet at the Havana stairwell, though she lets the men do the posturing. A bard healer, she buffs allies and lays afflictions, reciting poems and prayers rather than singing. Gentle but iron-firm, “today is a new day; we don't worry about yesterday” is her standing rule against asking anyone about their past, and she keeps the volatile Anton in check with a single touch on the shoulder, and refuses to worship the false god Ogun. Donut distrusts her on sight purely for being a rival cat (a Havana brown, no less), and Carl senses there is far more to her than she lets show.

Book 6 appearances

• Chapter 5 — Debuts at the Havana stairwell as the quiet leader of the trio of Cuban prison staff and inmate; refuses to worship the false god Ogun.
• Chapter 11 — Comes apart at the sight of the plague-orisha Asojano in the saferoom, terrified of false gods.
• Chapter 14 — Joins the temple gauntlet, healing the Terrified Paz and saving Carl from a donkey-snake strike.
• Chapter 16 — Unmasked by the dying Paz as “El Segador de La Habana,” the Reaper of Havana who poisoned her whole convent: her cat-girl race carries an involuntary Toxoplasma charm. Rather than let Paz go, she flags him into a card.
• Chapter 52 — Revealed as one of two keyholders in the Cuba zone: her stairwell is the very church where the fled Imani has taken shelter, setting up a confrontation.
• Chapter 54 — Atop the level-125 boss snake Madre de Aguas, she uses a level-15 Book of Rhymes Word Weaver charm to raise a poetry-controlled army of seals, crabs, fish and zombies against Havana.
• Chapter 55 — Samantha’s teleport shatters her charm and drops the whole army onto Carl; in the boss battle she preaches that the dungeon is literal Hell and the aliens are demons.
• Chapter 56 — She summons Paz as a totem and orders his self-destruct, but Quan’s Force Play forces her Flee card: she loses her key and teleports away.
• Chapter 60 — Fully turned: juiced by her Nebular sponsors she now controls the demon-possessed Madre de Aguas and Sheol pleasure demons, threatening to smash the church unless Carl comes to her instead of the exit.
• Chapter 61 — Her pleasure demons keep ranged hell-portal attacks on the church, but she steadily loses her grip on Amayon as he fights to cast his own escape spell.
• Chapter 64 — Holed motionless near the top of the FOSCA tower, controlling only Amayon now: secretly steadied by her Nebular sponsors and the goddess Ysalte.

Related entries

• Carl (Character)
• Princess Donut (Character)
• Anton Lopez (Character)
• Paz Lo (Character)
• Ogun (Character)
• Toxoplasma (Sister Ines’s Charm) (Spell / Skill)
• The Fall of the Havana Cons (Event)

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