Ethel Radcliffe

Ethel Radcliffe was the headstrong young daughter of Red Rodney Radcliffe, the notorious pirate and captain of the Black Hand in Avalon. She was eleven years old when her father, whom she adored, was killed in combat with her second cousin, William Radcliff, and she swore permanent revenge on the Stuart merchant for his role in her father's death.

Mildly worried, William Radcliff had her sent away and provided for. Ethel grew up, married, and had children before returning as a grown woman to Stuart and shooting William Radcliff dead on his doorstep. She went to the gallows utterly unrepentant, a testament to the stubborn single-mindedness of the Radcliff(e) family.