Magda Dulka

Magda is a resident of Pochenko, one of the villages supplying Roznov with its basic necessities. Once the herbal contents of Volos's lab exceeded his ability to easily maintain, he had messages sent to all the nearby villages offering coin and board for a servant willing to care for his plants and keep the lab clean while he got on with his work. Magda is a respected herb-woman in her own right in Pochenko, but she was drawn to the chance to see the rumored wizards up close. Once she had traveled to Roznov and presented herself, both she and Volos found value in the other. While Volos is picky, frequently rude, and generally poor at sharing space with others, Magda found his work exciting, filled with new possibilities, and his library contains numerous volumes that pertain to her own interests that he has been willing to let her examine. Magda's knowledge of the area, the plants that grow there, and their traditional properties and natures, meanwhile, make her far more useful to Volos than a mere menial, which has given her some leeway to push back against the worst of his behaviors.

Magda has spent her life working with the area's traditional remedies, potions, poultices, and curses, making her the closest thing Roznov has to a physician. She is not well-read and is barely literate in Slavic, but she has begun studying written Latin in order to understand Volos's texts and his personal notes. Her official duties essentially amount to watering, pruning, and treating the plants in the lab, but she has begun filling a fetch-and-carry role for Volos as well. Unofficially, she has begun treating various complaints around the covenant and has used Volos's Vivarium to grow some spice plants of her own to supply the kitchens. She returns to Pochenko once a month to stay in touch and provide necessary assistance there, but otherwise has moved into the covenant.