F is for Frau Trinken

It's hard to know who Frau Trinken is or what Frau Trinken was up to in Übersreik.

She was the subject of the Institute, a mysterious body of scholars and politicians that watched the actions of individuals that crossed their honey traps.

Frau Trinken was one such person. Touched by insanity or by magic, she began to study a lost tower in the hinterlands of the province. Seeking brave, or possibly foolish, individuals to follow her actions, a company of "heroes" was recruited from the city watch.

And thus began the travels of Niklos, Dankmar, Waldor, and Fineas (or Owly or Barry, depending on when you enter the story). The heroes tracked Frau Trinken to her home to find an apprentice and the drawings of a mad woman focused on a mysterious tower in the aforementioned hinterlands.

Finding the tower and the interest of Frau Trinken soon led to first encounters with the Red Triangle, a cult of the chaos god of Change, Tzeentch. Patron deity to the mysterious Schmitterling, a more mysterious high priest of the Red Triangle with great influence and reach across the Empire.