Karen Ballion

Karen was a mechanic and a part-time detective, whose involvement in our grand story started with her working in a small private detective agency in Boston with Peter Steele and Frank Jones.

Following the Case of Corbitt's House and the death of Frank Jones, she was forced to leave her favorite cat with her ex-boyfriend and flee from Boston to Arkham together with Peter Steele and Ivan Zygzytsia. On the road there they encountered and trapped the Eater of Sins and got involved in a search for stolen Witch Trials papers in Arkham.

During her stay in Arkham, Karen began hearing voices and experiencing weird visions. Later she found evidence that she was a distant ascendant of Kesiah Mason, the legendary witch, who was burned alive during the Witch Trials.

In January 1925 she was among the friends of Jackson Elias who arrived to New York on his behest and witnessed Jackson's brutal murder in room 410 of Chelsea Hotel by the Cult of the Bloody Tongue.

According to the last will of Jackson Elias, Karen, along with Peter Steele, Ivan Zygzytsia and Shaun Lanetti was hired by Carlton Ramsey, the late Jackson's lawyer and executor of estate, to track down the Carlysle Expedition, as well as investigate the murder of Elias.

She bravely faced the knife-wielding cultists and hungry zombies alike, and survived the many-headed screaming horror of Chacota in the basement of Ju-ju House. It was where she found the strange three-faced Mask of Hayama.

Upon putting the masks on, she found herself on some far-away shore, where she was greeted by Nodens. The hoary Elder God invited her into His chariot and rode with her across the sea and the sky. She was given power to face the servants of Nyarlathotep and returned to the waking world.