Mildred Garland

Mildred Garland is an exceptionally old human who shares Apartment 1 at the Southharbor Apartments with Odessa Popsy. Mildred has frizzy silver hair and speaks in a creaky and near-incomprehensible drawl. She can often be heard repeating whispered prayers under her breath and is known to collect small common magic items she calls her "trinkets."

Early Life
Little is known about Mildred's early life, though she estimates she is between four and five hundred years old, and would therefore have been born sometime in the late Silver age. She has also confirmed that she saw a live dragon in her childhood. The name Garland was given to her by a Pinnsmish orphanage when she was a small child, though she cannot specify how old. She sometimes has memories of her mother, who taught her prayers of the Old Way and left her the first set of trinkets she collected. Mildred has claimed to be both from Hygard and Pinnsmouth interchangeably, and is not sure where she was originally born.

Memories
Mildred reports that she was married up to four times, first to a man named Gavin and later to a "really boring" man whose name she has forgotten. No children she had ever lived to adulthood, and she has hinted that foul play was involved in Gavin's death. She upkept her collection of trinkets and maintained deep faith in the Avatolian Old Way. Alina Gizamgot speculates that the secret prayers that her mother taught her have allowed her to life to an unprecedentedly advanced age for a human.

Recent Times
Sometime in the 1230s, Mildred moved to Vista City from the Hygardian countryside and moved into the Southharbor Apartments managed by Geren Betrovian. In 1250, Odessa Popsy moved into Apartment 1, bringing a giant chest of loose gold and gems. Since then, the building has been acquired by the Money Offers to Help foundation. Mildred has shared Apartment 1 with Odessa, Atlas, and Anne Pike.