Joyce Peabody

Spouse of Jeremy Faulkner, married into the Faulkner (Lancastrian) line from a local family.

Full Name

Joyce Peabody

Status

Deceased

Date of Birth

1681 CE

No abilities have been documented yet.

No power identity content has been documented yet.

Percentile Profile

Each axis shows Joyce Peabody's roster percentile (0–100) for that stat, against the dashed roster-average baseline.

13Overall

Power ProfileRoster Average

Overview

Overall Rating 13

Click any point on the radar to inspect that stat in full.

Strength19th

Speed14th

Agility2th

Durability5th

Intelligence39th

Combat12th

Power5th

Stamina9th

Statistical Analysis

Each bar shows how many standard deviations above or below the roster mean this stat sits. Click a bar for the full breakdown.

Joyce Peabody — Strength statistical analysis

Strength score: 37/100.

Roster rank: 407 of 500 — 19th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 93 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Strength: 7–97, average 53.2.

Difference from roster average: -16.2.

Statistical spread: 1 standard deviation below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 16.5).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Strength sits 7.6 points above that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Marrow Vane (37).

Ranked directly below: Adekao Nyadee (37).

Joyce Peabody — Speed statistical analysis

Speed score: 35/100.

Roster rank: 429 of 500 — 14th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 95 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Speed: 6–100, average 54.9.

Difference from roster average: -19.9.

Statistical spread: 1.1 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.4).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Speed sits 5.6 points above that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Anton Weiss (35).

Ranked directly below: Jacob Eaton Faulkner (35).

Joyce Peabody — Agility statistical analysis

Agility score: 20/100.

Roster rank: 488 of 500 — 2th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 90 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Agility: 6–97, average 54.3.

Difference from roster average: -34.3.

Statistical spread: 2 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 16.8).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Agility sits 9.4 points below that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Sarah Howe (20).

Ranked directly below: Parnel Kershaw (20).

Joyce Peabody — Durability statistical analysis

Durability score: 26/100.

Roster rank: 474 of 500 — 5th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 95 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Durability: 8–97, average 53.8.

Difference from roster average: -27.8.

Statistical spread: 1.7 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 15.9).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Durability sits 3.4 points below that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Benjamin Cole Faulkner (26).

Ranked directly below: Parnel Kershaw (26).

Joyce Peabody — Intelligence statistical analysis

Intelligence score: 54/100.

Roster rank: 304 of 500 — 39th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 100 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Intelligence: 7–100, average 58.1.

Difference from roster average: -4.1.

Statistical spread: 0.3 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 14.5).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Intelligence sits 24.6 points above that baseline — their largest internal gap of any stat.

Ranked directly above: Elashim Sidrahaon (54).

Ranked directly below: Zayaas Ahengeas (54).

Joyce Peabody — Combat statistical analysis

Combat score: 24/100.

Roster rank: 442 of 500 — 12th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 90 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Combat: 7–100, average 52.2.

Difference from roster average: -28.2.

Statistical spread: 1.5 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 18.9).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Combat sits 5.4 points below that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Carapace (24).

Ranked directly below: Silas Goodwin (24).

Joyce Peabody — Power statistical analysis

Power score: 7/100.

Roster rank: 473 of 500 — 5th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 97 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Power: 5–100, average 49.3.

Difference from roster average: -42.3.

Statistical spread: 1.7 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 24.8).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Power sits 22.4 points below that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Andrew Carter (7).

Ranked directly below: Walter Harlan (7).

Joyce Peabody — Stamina statistical analysis

Stamina score: 32/100.

Roster rank: 455 of 500 — 9th percentile.

Percentile tier: Weak (shared with 93 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Stamina: 7–97, average 56.8.

Difference from roster average: -24.8.

Statistical spread: 1.5 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 16.4).

Joyce Peabody's own average across all 8 stats is 29.4; Stamina sits 2.6 points above that baseline.

Ranked directly above: Silas Stone (32).

Ranked directly below: Glacialis (31).

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Status

Deceased

Archetype

Unclassified

Full Name

Joyce Peabody

Status

Deceased

Date of Birth

1681 CE

Deerfield, Massachusetts, where Joyce Peabody was born in 1681, was the farthest edge of the English settlements up the Connecticut River, a single street of timber houses behind a stockade, with meadows on the flats and the forest coming down to the back fences. It had been founded a mere decade before her birth and had already been burned once, in the terrible autumn of 1675 when a wagon train of grain was ambushed at Bloody Brook and the town was abandoned for a time. The people who returned to it were hard, pious and watchful. They kept muskets by the door and the meeting-house bell ready, and they taught their children to count the hours until dark. Joyce grew up in that alertness and it never quite left her. Her family were farmers and, on her mother's side, needle-women, for in a frontier town where a bolt of cloth cost a month's labour every stitch was precious. Girls were set to the needle early, to hem and darn and turn old coats into new, and Joyce showed an aptitude from the first. By twelve she could set a sleeve so that it hung true, and by sixteen she was being paid in eggs, wool and small coin by neighbours who wanted a good Sunday gown from very little material. The fashion in Massachusetts lagged some years behind London's, but women still wanted the open gown, the stomacher, the petticoat that showed beneath the skirt, and she worked out how to make them from what came up the river on the trader's sledge. She had a keen eye and a flat, quiet voice, and a way of standing with the pins in her mouth that customers found soothing. She left Deerfield in her early twenties, to the regret of her family, and went down the valley and over the hills toward the coast, apprenticing herself in the port towns to a tailor's widow who taught her the finer points of the trade. It was in Andover, on a visit to make a gown for a farmer's wife, that she met Jeremy Faulkner. He was the son of the late Josiah Faulkner's household, a young man of nineteen or twenty who was then learning the cloth trade and who came into the sewing room to price a length of broadcloth. He was talkative and she was not, and by the end of the afternoon he had told her a good deal about himself and she had told him her price. They were married in 1702, when she was twenty-one and he was twenty, in the Andover meeting-house, with a wedding feast of boiled salt beef, cider and a spiced loaf, and the bride wore a gown that she had cut and sewn herself. The Faulkner family into which she had married was odd in ways that took time to reveal. There was a ledger, red-covered and much handled, kept in a chest with a lock, and the men of the house would take it out on certain evenings and read from it, quietly, in the voice reserved for scripture. They were descended, she gathered, from the Faulkners of Lancashire who had fought on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses, and there was an old grudge with a family in Yorkshire, the Proctors, who kept a white ledger of their own. It sounded like the sort of clan feud that other families had over a boundary or a will. Joyce, who was practical, took it as such for a good while. She did not ask about the nights when Jeremy's father was out, since he had died three years before, and she assumed that such things belonged to the past. She learned otherwise gradually. Jeremy, who was a cloth merchant and made a good living from wool and linen bought at country markets and sold in Boston, did not at first take up the hunt. His brother Nathaniel did, and the household understood that Nathaniel was a slayer, one who left on horseback and came back scratched. It was not until 1716, when Joyce's husband was thirty-four, that the calling came to him too, and by then she had been prepared. A neighbour who was buried on the hill had come back and would not come inside. Jeremy stood in the yard and talked to him through the night. In the morning Joyce found him at the table with grey in his face and the ledger open in front of him, and she made him tea and a cold breakfast and said nothing, because there was nothing to be said. Her part in what followed was that of the seamstress who keeps the hunter mended. She let out coats to hide holsters. She sewed pockets into the linings of cloaks for silver shot, a long strip of pouches in a girdle for stakes, and a wide skirt with a slit in the seam so that a woman might reach a pistol without appearing to move. For Jeremy she made a plain dark riding-coat, broad in the back, with a hidden compartment for the ledger. She patched wounds too, with her sewing-needle and a thread boiled in cider, since she had steadier fingers than any surgeon within ten miles. She was careful about the blood. She washed and burned what could not be washed, and she never told the neighbours what she knew. Her children were born close together. Obadiah Peabody Faulkner, born in 1705, was a thoughtful boy who took no interest in the hunt and later settled into farming and the militia's paperwork, and lived until 1767. Deborah Peabody Faulkner, born in 1707, was a different creature, a girl who could hit a target at thirty paces by the age of twelve and who, when the calling came, took to it as her father had. She became a slayer and died young, in 1733, three years after her father. Joyce, who outlived them both in the way that mothers of hunters often do, had sewn Deborah's first pair of hunting breeches and would sew her burial shift as well. She said afterward that she had spent her life making garments for people who would not wear them long. The great blow of her middle years was Jeremy's death in 1730. He fell from a roof during a chase, on a cold night in Andover, when he was forty-eight, and the fall broke his neck. Joyce was forty-nine, with two grown children and the shop, and she carried on. She moved into a smaller house, took in sewing from the merchants' wives and taught two nieces the trade, and she attended meeting each Sunday in a black gown of her own making. She kept the red-ledger entry for her husband in her own hand, in a careful script, adding the date of the fall and the words, He was the proud rook and he fell from the height. It stands in the ledger still. She died in 1737, at fifty-six, in childbed, a death that astonished her neighbours since she had been thought long past that danger. The women who attended her said afterward that she had asked only for her needle case, which they put in her hands. The Slayerverse family histories mention her as the seamstress of the Faulkner hunters, the woman who never carried a pistol but whose stitching held the Red Ledger's Massachusetts branch in its coats.

Full Name

Joyce Peabody

Status

Deceased

Date of Birth

1681 CE

Spouses

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Spouse

Jeremy Faulkner

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Joyce Peabody — Strength (37 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Speed (35 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Agility (20 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Durability (26 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Intelligence (54 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Combat (24 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Power (7 / 100)

Joyce Peabody — Stamina (32 / 100)

Percentile Profile

Overall Rating 13

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Statistical Analysis

Joyce Peabody — Strength statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Speed statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Agility statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Durability statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Intelligence statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Combat statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Power statistical analysis

Joyce Peabody — Stamina statistical analysis

Spouses

Jeremy Faulkner