Jerilyn Contecor got her start as a reporter working on the city's main broadsheet, the Word of Lüm. She started out writing about arts and entertainment, but quickly found herself rubbing elbows with some very important people, and transitioned into being more of a gossip columnist. She has since become perhaps the city's most popular source of titillating information about the rich and powerful, and has branched out into publishing novels that owe their success perhaps more to her name and notoriety than to their actual quality. She's managed to accumulate enough wealth to buy her own home in the upscale Glades, joining the high society she reported—and still reports—on. Her house is modest by the standards of the Glades, but it's still a mansion relative to homes in most of the city.

Contecor is a fixture at social scenes in the Glades, though one that its other residents approach with a bit of trepidation. On the one hand, fellow partygoers love to hear her stories about their peers; on the other hand, they're wary of becoming a subject of her stories themselves. Still, she's personable enough that she gets along well with the Glades' other residents despite the risk of her revealing facts about their personal lives. It helps that whatever scandal she's writing about, Contecor still manages to highlight the humanity of those involved, and to show some sympathy. She may be a gossip-monger, but she's never malicious. Of course, not everything that Contecor knows makes it into the papers, and if someone really needs some good dirt on a famous figure of Lüm, Jerilyn Contecor may be a good source to get it from.

Jerilyn Conticor is a curvy woman with an open face and dark brown skin. She has a slight limp from an accident in her youth from which she never fully recovered, and which even healing magic has so far proven unable to entirely eliminate. She tends to speak loudly and with plenty of physical contact, putting her hand on her interlocutor's shoulder or giving them a playful light punch in the arm—though she has enough social graces to recognize when such ways would be unwelcome or inappropriate, and can certainly speak softly and keep her hands to herself when needed. She most often dresses in several layers of translucent silk gowns in various vibrant colors, though she likes to vary her wardrobe and frequently appears in very different&mdashland sometimes outlandish—costumes.