Madame Cicada
- Race
- Brood-Insectoid (Cicada Chimera)
- Born
- Unknown (first emerged 34 years ago)
- Died
- n/a
- Aliases
- The Chitin Queen, The Molted Lady, The Sleeper
- Family
- The Brood Clade
- Racial characteristics
- Segmented chitinous skin plates, double-set membranous wings, tymbal resonating chambers in thorax
- Sex
- Female
- Height
- 5'4"
- Weight
- 115 lbs
- Carapace
- Matte iridescent black with bronze undertones
- Eyes
- Bulbous ruby red
- Affiliations
- The Metamorphic Guild (Guildmistress), The Undercroft Concilio
Deep in the damp, geothermal roots of the Undercroft lies the salon of Madame Cicada, the enigmatic ruler of the Metamorphic Guild. Part alchemist, part surgeon, and entirely monstrous by high faerie standards, she presides over the black market of bodily transformation. For the right price, Madame Cicada provides runaway aristocrats with new faces through bio-alchemical molting, fits street enforcers with hardened chitinous armor, and sells rare insect glandular extracts coveted by high-society apothecaries and couturiers alike.
Madame Cicada lives in cyclical cadences, periodically retreating into deep pupation vaults beneath the city only to emerge with an updated carapace, renewed vigor, and restructured alliances. Unlike the brawling turf-claimers of the Low Drain or the street-level gutter runners, she operates as an indispensable neutral broker. Even Lady Morvane’s discreet agents have visited her humid chambers under cover of darkness, seeking undetectable transmutations to erase the bastard traits of highborn heirs or quiet unruly family secrets before the Court takes notice.