Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
Lady of the Fifth House — a spirit necromancer married to her own cavalier, who approached the horrors of Canaan House with the enthusiasm of an academic discovering a new primary source.
Abigail is the kind of scholar who gets excited about hauntings the way other people get excited about birthdays. She devoted fifteen years to studying post-Resurrection era spirit necromancy, married her cavalier Magnus (which she admits consumed less of her time than her research), and arrived at Canaan House ready to treat the entire murder mystery as a fascinating field study. She is warm, practical, and genuinely kind in a cast full of people who weaponize every emotion. She mothered the younger postulants, mediated between hostile Houses, and continued doing necromantic research even as people around her were dying — not from callousness but from the bone-deep belief that understanding is how you save people. She was murdered by Cytherea. She didn't deserve it. Almost nobody at Canaan House deserved what happened to them, but Abigail's death stings because she was one of the few people there who was simply, uncomplainedly good.
Brown hair, brown eyes, farmer's wife build — practical and unassuming in a way that made people chronically underestimate her. Dresses for comfort rather than impression. Looks like someone's kind aunt who happens to also commune with the dead.
Also known as: Abigail, Lady Pent