Freda carries herself with the quiet dignity and poise of a noble lady; traits seemingly at odds with the weaver’s dye-stained hands and humble origins as the daughter of refugees from Neverwinter’s Blacklake District.

The weaver’s prodigious skill at the loom is matched only by her depth of knowledge regarding Phandalin’s history. Freda occasionally regales patrons of the Stonehill Inn with stories of the town’s distant past, which residents attribute to an overactive imagination.

This breadth of knowledge regarding lore around Phandalin and its hinterlands might lead others to mistake Freda for a student of history. But her fount of knowledge springs from an unlikely source: The Lady Tresendar (wife of Aldith Tresendar), whose ghost often possesses the weaver at the invitation of Freda herself.

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