Mime-queen


 * If you are looking for the male equivalent of mime-queens, see Mime-lord.

Mime-queens are the female equivalent of a mime-lord, and are female gang leaders in the clairvoyant syndicate. The mime-queen generally has a close group of five to ten followers, but maintains overall command over all clairvoyants in one section within a cohort. All mime-queens are members of the Unnatural Assembly.

Description
The prefix "mime-" is shorthand for "mimic," and refers to the fact that most mime-lords and mime-queens don't always do their own work. Instead, they trade in spirits to get the work done. The term was conceived by the first Underlord, Thomas Ebon Merritt, and was intended as a respectful term to humble voyants, who were forced to remember that they could only ever mimic the greatness of their spirit guides. Jaxon Hall quotes Tom Merritt in On the Merits of Unnaturalness:

"I have raised you to Roles of great Importance, so you shall be called the Lords and Queens of these wretched Folk; yet see that I have humbled you anew with a prefix, mime. For though you are a Monarch, remember that you are only a Mimic. The Spirits of the Dead have granted us their Knowledge so that we may whore it on the Streets for Coin, sacrificing their Secrets for the sake of our continued Existence. You, the Unnatural, can only ever imitate their Greatness."

All voyant businesses are supposed to give a cut to their local mime-lord or mime-queen. This is called the syndicate tax.

Known Mime-queens

 * The Abbess: I-2 Cohort (formerly)
 * Ognena Maria: I-5 Cohort (formerly)
 * Glass Duchess: II-2 Cohort
 * The Wicked Lady: II-6 Cohort (formerly)
 * Redcap: IV-1 Cohort
 * The Pearl Queen: IV-3 Cohort (formerly)
 * Jenny Greenteeth: VI-5 Cohort
 * The Wretched Sylph: V-1 Cohort