Mahaut’s Miracle Players

Mahaut’s Miracle Players are a traveling troupe of performers, known for staging miracle plays and other road‑show entertainment. Celyn, later famous as one of the Heroes of Cleenseau, traveled with the troupe for a time in the early DR 1700s.

The cast includes:

• Mahaut: short, plump, middle-aged woman with grey hair; owner, stage manager, terrifying force of organization, disciplinarian.
• Mahaut’s husband: quiet mousy guy who does the accounting
• Josse: Playwright, maybe slightly mad and thus doubly Wyrdling-touched;
• Adri Lightfoot: halfling bard with a touch of magic who supports the troupe with music and illusions; generally keeps to herself but warmed to Celyn when he brought in some particularly good mushrooms. Has combat/intimidation skills that she does not publicise. Gave Celyn his sword with Alys.
• Ruby: possibly Tyrwinghan seamstress/costume mistress (but she is older and has lost/trained away the accent if so)
• Piet: juggler, does between-acts stuff and warmup stuff,
• Antonin: lead actor, more bravery than sense,
• Charlotte: trans woman actress, Celyn mentored her in clothing selection and helped her get herbal E and depilatory treatments, after which she got very confident and very popular;
• Alys: short, stocky lesbian acrobat, often the anchor of larger acrobatic tricks because she’s strong and well-balanced. Cutthroat gambler.

Plus a cook, assorted acrobats, actors, musicians, and others unnamed to make up the rest of the troupe. Basically everyone in the crew has at least one backup job so while Celyn did costumes and makeup he also filled in in ensemble roles that just needed a warm body, helped the acrobats and jugglers and stage magician when they had one and so on. A particularly organized acrobat is probably the props master and that sort of thing.

Their regular route runs through Telham, Embry, Wisford, Eskbridge, and Tafolwern. They sometimes travel upriver along the Semb of Wistel and once reached Western Cymea. Mahaut was not a member of the Theatrical Guild, so visits to Tollen were for rest and supplies, including cloth and costumes, rather than performances in the city. A bandit attack near Wisford shortly before Celyn left the troupe was unusual for the heartland and alarmed locals.