Slippery Three
The Slippery Three are three women who inhabit a ruined Azcelani shrine in the jungle outside Freeport. One is missing an eye, another a tongue, and another an ear. The sister missing an eye is known as Eyeless Alice.
They call one another sisters, although their understanding of kinship is spiritual rather than necessarily biological. They describe themselves as sisters “under the eye.”
Their hideout is Shrine of the Slippery Three.
As children, they were slaves and they were owned by an Azcelani sorcerer who worshipped the Azcelani God of Mirrors. Believing the three to be a blessing connected to the Azcelani God of Mirrors, he had experimented on them, including removing one's eye, one's tongue, and one's ear. The three escaped after brutally murdering their captor, and fled to Freeport for refuge.
The fourth sister
The Slippery Three recognise a fourth sister: an ancient, broken statue of Xōchitlāyōtl whose legs have been lost.
They believe that restoring her “legs of the soul” will allow them to escape some deeper condition of confinement. Their explanations connect their own missing body parts with a ritual or supernatural event experienced in childhood, but the nature of that event remains unclear.
Ritual practices
The sisters drug and abduct people for sacrifice. Their rites combine fire, bloodletting, cooking, and consumption, with the intention of transferring qualities from a victim into their fourth sister (a statue of Xōchitlāyōtl, Goddess of Beauty, Song, and Architecture). Their ritual preparations include tobacco powder, ash, and ground bones.
They understand these meals as a means of acquiring or transferring magical power. Restoring ordinary physical legs is not, in their view, the same as restoring the spiritual capacity they seek.
Their practices draw on fragments of Azcelani ritual, but should not be taken as representative of established Azcelani religion. Their repeated attempts to restore the statue have been unsuccessful.
Outsiders
The sisters may receive visitors, share food, and discuss nearby sacred sites. They are particularly receptive to people who take their beliefs seriously, and hostile towards those who interfere with their rituals.
They value their independence and say that they have escaped chains before. They have little interest in exchanging their shrine and practices for service under another master.
Interest from the Chained Hag
In early May Y120, Bruno Culina brought the sisters’ methods to the attention of Belladonna Velenza’s followers. Their ability to drug, abduct, and dispose of people without attracting much attention was considered potentially useful to the Chained Hag.
The sisters declined an offer to join Belladonna Velenza’s organisation, preferring their independence and their shrine. They remained interested in Belladonna Velenza herself as a possible source of the “legs” required by their rituals.