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== Background == | == Background == | ||
Eloise was born around 1937 to '''Marguerite''', the Delacroix woman who had killed [[Elias Roarke]] in 1929 using [[The Anklet of Inevitable Accord]]. Marguerite made a deliberate choice after Roarke's death: she would break the Delacroix chain. She gave her daughter a name outside the family pattern, raised her with respect for the vault and the collection, but withheld all of it — the history, the lineage, the practice, the obligations. Eloise grew up knowing the objects in the basement were real and dangerous. She did not know what they meant or what her family had done. | Eloise was born around 1937 to '''[[Marguerite Delacroix]]''', the Delacroix woman who had killed [[Elias Roarke]] in 1929 using [[The Anklet of Inevitable Accord]]. Marguerite made a deliberate choice after Roarke's death: she would break the Delacroix chain. She gave her daughter a name outside the family pattern, raised her with respect for the vault and the collection, but withheld all of it — the history, the lineage, the practice, the obligations. Eloise grew up knowing the objects in the basement were real and dangerous. She did not know what they meant or what her family had done. | ||
Marguerite tried to break the line not by abandoning her own name but by naming her daughter Eloise rather than a Margot or Marguerite variant. It was the most deliberate act of mercy in the family's history. It was also, indirectly, the cause of Verdant's worst modern crisis. | Marguerite tried to break the line not by abandoning her own name but by naming her daughter Eloise rather than a Margot or Marguerite variant. It was the most deliberate act of mercy in the family's history. It was also, indirectly, the cause of Verdant's worst modern crisis. | ||
Revision as of 15:33, 21 April 2026
| Eloise Delacroix | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Eloise Delacroix |
| Affiliation | Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures; House Subconium (seat holder) |
| Status | Deceased (c. 2007) |
| Occupation | Owner, Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures; House Subconium seat holder |
| First appearance | Making the Grades: Kelly's Unveiling |
| Canon status | Confirmed |
About
Eloise Delacroix (b. c. 1937, d. c. 2007) was Margot Delacroix's mother and the previous owner of Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures. She held the Delacroix family seat in House Subconium until her death, when it passed to Margot. She is the central figure in one of the SSU's most consequential generational failures: raised outside the Delacroix tradition by a mother trying to end it, she eventually understood the cost of that choice, had Margot to restore the line, and then passed down the name without the history. The cycle she had inherited, she repeated.
Description
No physical description has been established in canon.
Background
Eloise was born around 1937 to Marguerite Delacroix, the Delacroix woman who had killed Elias Roarke in 1929 using The Anklet of Inevitable Accord. Marguerite made a deliberate choice after Roarke's death: she would break the Delacroix chain. She gave her daughter a name outside the family pattern, raised her with respect for the vault and the collection, but withheld all of it — the history, the lineage, the practice, the obligations. Eloise grew up knowing the objects in the basement were real and dangerous. She did not know what they meant or what her family had done.
Marguerite tried to break the line not by abandoning her own name but by naming her daughter Eloise rather than a Margot or Marguerite variant. It was the most deliberate act of mercy in the family's history. It was also, indirectly, the cause of Verdant's worst modern crisis.
When Marguerite died in 1969, Eloise inherited the vault, the House Subconium seat, and no explanation.
Running the shop
Without understanding the Delacroix legacy, Eloise ran Delacroix's Tomes and Treasures as a commercial operation. The shop upstairs sold mass-produced spell kits, novelty candles, crystal ball magnets, and witch-aesthetic merchandise for day-trippers. The tourist trade was, to her, a cover story and a revenue stream. She did not see the contradiction between the shop's commercial surface and what was held in the vault below it. Her daughter Margot Delacroix did.
The Historical Society documents
In the mid-1970s, Eloise discovered documents in the Delacroix family archive that connected Sarah Osgood, one of the founders of the Verdant Scholars, to Tituba of the Salem Witch Trials. She provided a selection of those documents to the Verdant Historical Society. The Society