Character from Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
A vegan Italian goat farmer turned Shepherd-class healer — gentle, maternal, and the only person whose absence can send the dungeon's highest-level crawler into a panic attack.
Miriam has 'a gentle, motherly sense about her' that somehow survives in a place designed to burn gentleness out of people. She scolds Prepotente when necessary with the firm boundaries of someone who raised goats for a living and knows exactly how to handle stubborn, difficult creatures — a skill that transfers seamlessly to managing the dungeon's most arrogant Caprid. Her Shepherd class gives her healer-focused abilities: sleep spells, debuffs, revives, and the unique ability to unlearn spells and convert them into tomes. Her tactical system with Prepotente — she disables targets while he stacks debuffs until they die — is elegant in its cruelty and devastating in practice. A vegan pianist from rural Italy who inherited her family's goat farm, she initially resented the countryside life but became rooted to it, her responsibilities, and her beloved goats, whom she considers her 'children.' Prepotente is the child who followed her into hell, and his absolute dependence on her is the dungeon's most touching relationship — a goat-woman bond that survived species uplift, apocalypse, and alien game show mechanics.
A middle-aged woman around forty with a sturdy build and dark hair. Calloused hands from years of farm work. Wears a long-hooked staff and robe. A faded musical note tattoo marks the skin between her thumb and forefinger — a remnant of her pianist past. Carries herself with composed authority.
Also known as: Miriam, Miriam Dom