Adelaide is the eldest child of Martha at twenty-five years old. She was a difficult child who played over-competitively with the other children and enjoyed morbid practical jokes to peeve her unpleasant father, like hiding rat carcasses in his boots overnight. Jericho was her best friend because she had a hard time making friends with other kids her age.

As she grew older, Adelaide’s antisocial behavior deepened. Jericho vanished on her twenty-fifth birthday, and ever since, she’s wandered into the cornfields after her nightly work, only returning when it’s time for bed. Some whisper she killed Jericho, while others claim she’s searching for her only friend. None who followed her into the corn have ever returned.

Three weeks after Jericho’s disappearance, she found him—now the monstrous, crow-headed demon, Raum. The Harvest Terror spoke with Jericho’s voice, calling himself her best friend, vowing to love her if she revealed her secrets. She confessed witnessing her father’s abuse and her mother’s fatal act.

The demon Raum told her that he is an angel sent to reveal the evil secrets in Foxwillow. Confused, but seduced by his words, Adelaide has spent recent months gathering secrets and luring folks into the cornfields, where Raum spirits them away to wander forever in the Fields of the Crow.

Adelaide is fully in Raum’s thrall. She can’t be swayed from being Hostile toward the characters.

In her communion with Raum, Adelaide has learned William’s secret—that her brother Isaac is really her half-brother. She’s been manipulated into believing that her mother’s infidelity and her half-brother’s birth are the real causes of her fear and suffering in childhood. She was goaded by Raum into murdering Isaac, and she hid his corpse in the basement of the Old Windmill, where it is incubating a demonic servant of The Harvest Terror.

Learning Her Secret. Adelaide’s murderous secret is revealed when the characters find her brother’s corpse in the Windmill Cellar. If her mother Martha is told of what happened, Martha weeps and gives the characters a handmade brass locket her brother made for her to try and earn her love as a child.

NPC for The Crooked Moon Campaign