Lucretia Mathias is a willowy and wizened woman with piercing eyes and pursed lips. She is in her early nineties, and keeps her greying black hair in a coiled bun beneath a linen shawl. She wears simple grey robes, and clutches a heavy leather-bound tome. A glowing golden crystal dangles from a silver chain around her neck.
18 years prior to the metor's arrival, Lucretia Mathias wrote an essay predicting the early return of Tarna’s Comet, and that its earthly arrival heralds the dawn of a new age for the faithful of the Divine Light. Her apocalyptic predictions are extremely unpopular within the mainstream clergy and her writings are suppressed by the Sacred Flame. In recent years, she has written more religious tracts and established a religion based on her writings. More and more people are joining the Followers of the Falling Fire and making the pilgrimage to the crater's edge.