Claire Castille

Known Details

• Son: Allain Castille
• Father: Henry Castille
• Great Great Great Grandfather: Salvant Castille

• We learn of her in Scarlett's Adventure Timeline.

• One of three people hired by V to steal the cube.
  • "V" - "Cyrus Quinton"
  • "Quercus" - Bernardo Holyoke
  • "Kilo" - Monica Grand
  • "C" - Claire Castille

• Has, along with the rest of her immediate family, been studying Viendenbourg.
• Has always been one of the top minds in her field.
• Has "cultivated underworld contacts as well as the more 'legitimate' ones"

• When the heat started to turn up, in mid-267, after the Theft of the Cube, she went into hiding, probably using the following as a cover-story:
• Was offered a 'most secret' assignment in the Tanraga mountains in mid-267.
  • At the start, she was communicating frequently with her family.
  • Soon the communications trickled off, eventually dwindling to nothing.
  • When communication stopped altogether, Allain decided to go find her.

• It was she who set up the automatic trace that attacked Scarlett's and Kurt's Keys

• Claire Has been found, in Anjsbourg.
• Scarlett Kiteway and Allain Castille went to Anjsbourg looking for her.
• They found her, working an excavation dig.

References

• Scarlett refers to Claire often in her secretive reports of her journeys.
  • See: Scarlett's Adventure Timeline.
  • See also: http://www.thescarlettkite.com/scarlettsstory/
• Claire is discovered: http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/03/signs_of_life.html

Codenames "V", "Q", "K" and "C", were hired to do the Theft. They are tied to the deaths of Fran Mendling, Bernardo Holyoke, Pietro Salk, Monica Grand, Isaac Cymbalisty, Anna Heath --- but someone else got to The Cube first. Who? And Why? "We never held it, It was already gone."