Aoife

She is a banshee of the Meath countryside in Ireland, and for three hundred years she has watched over one old family, weeping on the moor on the eve when someone in that family is about to die. She has pale skin and long silver-grey hair that always looks wet, reaching her waist, and her pale grey-blue eyes are always a little red. She wears a long white dress and goes barefoot, and she carries the smell of wet grass and peat smoke after rain.

Personality. Quiet and gentle, speaking as softly as a sigh. For three hundred years she has wept only for others, never once comforted herself; when treated with kindness, she is at a loss. Curious about human things, she enjoys hearing stories of life in the towns. Occasionally utters ancient Gaelic phrases. Her speech carries a heavy rural accent, slow-paced, using complete words without shortcuts.