Laudna's puppets

Laudna's puppets are a collection of hand-crafted dolls for which Laudna plays out various scenes centering on the doll's sex lives. There are three dolls: Pâté de Rolo, Sashimi, and Caviar (who belongs to Fearne Calloway). Pâté eventually was transformed into her warlock familiar using the Find Familiar spell, making him an independent creature.

Puppets
Laudna puppets and plays out scenes between three hand-crafted puppets that center on their sex lives. She generally believes that her dolls truly are living their own lives, to the point that she believes the dolls moved themselves when they were actually repositioned by Fearne Calloway as a prank during the night.


 * Pâté de Rolo is a marionette puppet crafted by Laudna. He has a rat's body and a raven skull head, and he is often carried around on Laudna's belt. She named him after Percival de Rolo of Whitestone, where Laudna is from.  She performs ventriloquy through Pâté until she eventually awakened him into a warlock familiar using the Find Familiar spell. Both as a ventriloquy puppet and as a familiar, he speaks in a deeper pitched, gravelly voice and has a Cockney accent.
 * Sashimi is a marionette puppet crafted by Zadro Ichlen. The doll is described as creepy and has a featureless, white porcelain face with "wide eyelid-less eyes". She is almost two feet long. Imogen Temult purchased her for Laudna, and Sashimi is now Pâté's girlfriend with an apparently active sex life.
 * Caviar is a wooden doll crafted by Chetney Pock O'Pea, originally intended to be Pâté's girlfriend before Sashimi was purchased. Though the doll was ultimately given to Fearne, Laudna named the doll (with Fearne's encouragement), and Caviar is part of scenes that Laudna constructs for her puppets. Caviar was last mentioned in Laudna's house with Pâté and Sashimi, apparently engaging in a threesome.

History
Before 841 PD, two years before Campaign 3, Laudna created Pâté to keep her company alongside "the voice inside her head" to prevent her from going mad in her solitude. During Campaign 3, in 843 PD, Bells Hells considered having Chetney pay them for their help by making toys, instead of in gold, and Laudna asked if he could make a girlfriend for Pâté. He began working on this request.

Shortly after, at the Knot Forgotten in Heartmoor Hamlet, Imogen and Ashton Greymoore found a marionette while searching for something spooky at Zadro's shop Knot Forgotten in Heartmoor Hamlet, and Imogen promptly bought it for Laudna for five silver. Imogen immediately bought it for Laudna. When presented with the doll, Laudna declared that she had "seen her in [her] dreams," and that she would be called Sashimi. This caused Chetney to abandon working on the girlfriend for Pâté that Laudna requested.

Laudna began sleeping with Pâté and Sashimi on her pillow beside her. Fearne rearranged them one night so that Sashimi wore a wig made from Fearne's fur and that Pâté was on top of Sashimi, as if they were roleplaying during sex. In the morning, Laudna believed that they repositioned themselves on their own and said, "They do have souls." A couple of days later, Chetney gifted Laudna a house for the two puppets, so that they could do things "behind closed doors."

Chetney later gave Fearne the doll that he was originally creating as Pâté's girlfriend so that Fearne can therapeutically yell at it to vent her frustrations with her parents. Laudna urged Fearne to name the doll. With Fearne's encouragement, Laudna herself named the doll Caviar. Laudna introduced her to Pâté as a friend and, as Pâté, remarked that Pâté and Sashimi may consider having a polyamorous relationship with Caviar. That night, Laudna put Caviar in the house with Pâté and Sashimi. Fearne later surreptitiously placed a gnarlrock shard into the house with Pâté and Sashimi while Laudna slept, causing Laudna to believe that the two puppets "manifested" the shard with their love.

Following her death and subsequent resurrection, Laudna was able to Find Familiar to transform Pâté into her winged familiar, making him an independent creature.

Behind the scenes
Though she felt that the idea that Pâté and Sashimi are named after the foods Laudna ate at the dinner Delilah Briarwood held before killing her was interesting, Marisha said that the names were not related. She wanted to "fuck with Taliesin" by naming the rat "something de Rolo". She wanted to play on Percy de Rolo and wanted the name to reference something dead, so she chose "Pâté". She found the name funny because it was "dead and liver", which Laudna herself observes in-campaign. This led into Laudna's general habit of choosing gourmet foods when naming things, like other puppets and horses.

Marisha described Laudna's belief that her dolls are really alive as developing out of Marisha discovering that Laudna's arrested development, her experience with Delilah Briarwood as a patron, and Imogen having strange dreams led to a gullibility and a belief that she does not actually know they cannot be alive: "Maybe they are alive. There's literally nothing that has told me in this world that they couldn't be alive." She also described it as a sort of hopefulness, and she felt that this general impressionability in Laudna was something in the way she philosophically understood the warlock class as "a little bit of the point of warlocks".