Dowager Viscountess Proscunia Pattle-Botham

The youngest daughter of a distinguished scholar, Proscunia Pattle-Botham, née Madragonne, began her studies of folklore at an early age, and has been quoted claiming that she, "[I] felt a girlish fancy in my heart of hearts for the lurid tales of wild adventure found in Father's journals," which may explain the often sensational and at times inaccurate representations to be found in her own.

Wed to the aging Viscount Darryl Pattle-Botham at the unseemly age of 26, she continued her studies under his doting care until his death three and a half years later, the Viscount reportedly having been "pecked to death by [those Saints-blasted] pigeons." The Viscount died without issue. Willingly stepping aside two years later to allow her nephew-in-law to assume the position of Viscount, Proscunia, now Dowager Viscountess, immersed herself fully in her work.

To date, she has produced three volumes of local superstitions, lore and songbooks distinguished by florid style and rampant abuse of capitalisation, six volumes of lore related to the history of the Bellodonto River Valley, and eighteen published books of Saints and prayers from a variety of local and foreign sources. An unknown number of lesser essays and dissertations on various subjects related to religion, art and music have also been attributed to her active pen.