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 : Currently this is a geldling called [[Animals/Madcap|Madcap]].
 
+## Background
+
+Claudine did her apprenticeship at Harco.  At some point after that
+she became a member of the Society of Goliards; however she doesn't
+usually talk about her life before coming to the Stonehenge Tribunal
+in 1207 seeking to leave the Mediterranean which she was beginning to
+find uncomfortably warm.
+
+Since then she has lived a comparatively staid life for a Goliard;
+finding delight in the day to day tasks of librarianship and
+satisfying her urge to travel with her Redcap work.  She also makes
+trips to covenants and other libraries in order to copy their books;
+and frequently travels as a man to pursude this end.  There are many
+monasteries in Britain and Normandy that have been visited by a
+wandering "Brother Claude".
+
+She has an unfortunate habit of consuming ergot fungus disolved in
+alchohol; which she claims inspires her art.  Perhaps it does.
+Certainly anyone finding snails assaulting knights in the margins of
+the libraries' books could reasonably believe so.  Trips away from the
+covenant also take her way from this vice but she does suffer
+flashbacks...
+
+She is currently being trained how to bind books and illuminate them.
+
 ## Notes
 
 Forgettable Face