Nicole née Iaggi Ransom

Nicole Marie née Iaggi Ransom was a Veterinarian by trade and education; sometime a member of Ransom's Crew; later the wife of Marcus Ransom and the mother of his son Nathan.

Youth

Born on Altronis in the Fourth Age, Nicole was the elder daughter of Ralph and Anne-Marie Iaggi. In childhood and womanhood Nicole was an animal-lover (particularly of mammals); an 'Advocate of Women's Rights'; guide, playmate, and torment of her sister Natalie and their friend A.E. Clipson. At the age of 19 years (local time), Nicole collaborated with Clipson and the Dragon Traroth in a power-raising spell meant to establish dragons on Altronis; restore law and justice to the local human societies (then almost wholly under control by the Altronis corpocracy); tighten loose ends in myth and fiction; reëstablish the Planet's ecosystems; prevent nuclear holocaust; alter the deterministic paradigm then dominant in local science; negate anti-intellectualism; etc. Shortly thereafter, Nicole suffered the death of her sister; the division of her parents; and the deferral of her education, among other things; and when Clipson wrote her anent their earlier project, Nicole said nothing of her sorrows, but forbade him to write her again and destroyed his subsequent letters unread. She later completed her Veterinary education, with flying colors.

Adult Life

Following the corpocracy's seizure of power, Nicole joined Ransom's Crew, and became an instrument of Ransom's victory.

After Ransom's return to and from Arindell, Nicole espoused him and became the mother of Nathan. She also befriended Jonas R. Work. In Nathan's 15th year, Nicole and Work were captured by the 'Dark Order', the small society of sorcerers and warlocks bent on avenging both the power-spell and the corpocracy's demise. Recalling his father's stories of the Crew, Nathan approached Clipson and Traroth to rescue his mother; but the final rescue was by Marcus Ransom himself, at or by his destruction of the Dark Order's chief, Elias Grimshaw. Nicole later attended Clipson's funereal pyre, and outlived him by c. 16 years.