NPCs · first: CC E3
Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica
The Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica is introduced by a card as Hierophant Rex of the Bulbian Church CC E3·01:09:25. Royalty and everyone alike bow as she approaches, and Lapin bows very deeply CC E3·01:09:26 CC E3·01:09:31. She greets Lapin as Primogen Lapin CC E3·01:11:12.
The Pontifex is the head of the Bulbian Church. She sits in the imperial box at the tournament and orders Keradin to kneel when the poison is found CC E4·00:12:21 CC E4·01:21:27. She presides over the cathedral trial, livid, strikes Lapin, and asks where the Church's strength comes from CC E5·01:38:21. At the end of the trial she excommunicates Amethar CC E5·02:13:16. In the cathedral fight Jet stabs her, Ruby shoots her, and she bleeds green blood CC E6·00:13:51 CC E6·00:40:22. At the end of the fight she calls Lapin a heretic and a warlock of the Sugar-Plum Fairy CC E6·01:39:46. She says Candia must return to the fold before a Cornucopian Council can sit CC E9·01:00:38. She calls the holy crusade CC E13·00:37:20.
In the last battle Liam shoots her from the keep wall and she asks how this can be CC E17·01:46:56 CC E17·01:47:38. In Ally's vignette she is revived and kept in prison, and Brennan calls her incredibly resurrected CC E17·02:15:21 CC E17·02:20:59.
By episode
CC E3: Keep Sharp
- Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica — card: "PONTIFEX BELIZABETH / BRASSICA / HIEROPHANT REX OF THE / BULBIAN CHURCH" — 01:09:25
"May the Bulb shine on this blessed day, on the Eve of Saint Turnipat" — 01:10:13
"Witchcraft? Abroad on an imperial highway?" — 01:48:23
"I would not wish to see the good people of Candia led down the path towards the Hungry One." — 01:50:29
"<…>I have never been more sure that Candia's path is surefooted." — 01:54:02
CC E4: The Grand Tournament
- The Pontifex, Belizabeth Brassica — present in the Imperial box. "I cannot say that I relish looking at these violent sports" — 00:12:21. Stunned during the melee — 01:19:00. "Stop this at once! Sir Keradin, kneel!" — 01:21:27. Arrests Keradin — 01:29:29; "We would see him hanged." — 01:35:42. Wants no sentence "until the Church has the ability to give him the sentence he deserves." — 01:36:24
- Hierophant Rex of the Bulbian Church — named by Grissini as source of the order that justice be dispatched by the Church — 01:52:00
CC E5: Lapin's Big Day
- The Pontifex, Belizabeth Brassica (also "Hierophant Rex") — sits on a throne on the dais, "livid"; "Primogen Cadbury. From where does the strength of this church come?" — 01:38:21; strikes Lapin; demands fealty; says Alfredi and Keradin "have already been remanded to our custody" — 01:42:24; orders Liam's arrest — 01:44:55; "Their punishment will be public, but the sentence will be private, as it should have been" (Brennan: the trial secret, the hanging public) — 01:42:24, 01:42:57; "Candia right now is not in good standing" — 01:43:01; announces Gustavo's death at the trial; asks Plumbeline to swear on the Book of Leaves; interrogates Amethar's marriage; "I pronounce you false, an adulterer" — 02:13:09; "Guards, seize them!" — 02:14:00. Accuses Liam of the spell cast on the road, tying it to the Ceresian soldier's claim about the princess: "he was also responsible for the spell cast on the road" — 01:44:06; "his malevolent influence and his worship of the Hungry One" — 01:44:55.
CC E6: Chaos in the Cathedral
- The Pontifex (title only here; Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica from CC_04) — hostile; stabbed by Jet for 30 and shot by Ruby for 28; bleeding "green blood"; heals herself twice; at the end addresses Lapin: "Heretic, apostate. Warlock of the Sugar-Plum Fairy. You mock that which is bright and shining. Do you have any last words?" — 00:13:40, 00:42:44, 01:00:55, 01:16:50, 01:39:46. Also "Bulb protect me, Bulb protect me." — 00:51:42. Lapin reads her as a warlock whose patron is the Bulb — 00:36:16. Insight 14: "she doesn't care. And you think that she gets what she wants from the Bulb, and that is power." — 01:40:32. Orders: "End it!" — 01:41:35.
CC E7: Escape From the Bulb Creeps
- Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica (title only; from CC_04) — named in the recap; "the seat of the Pontifex" is Brightgarden — 00:00:47, 00:49:05.
CC E9: Safe Harbor
- Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica (from CC_03–CC_07) — "the Pontifex is saying that until Candia is brought back into the fold <…> there cannot be a Cornucopian Council" — 01:00:38; Brennan's lore names her as the pupil of a Vegetanian archdeacon — 00:40:37
CC E11: At the Mountains of Sweetness
CC E12: Rescue at Buzzybrook
- The Pontifex (from CC_03) — named by Onionpatch as behind the meeting — 01:47:17
CC E13: Family Ties
- Pontifex (head of the Bulbian Church) — called a holy crusade — 00:37:20
- Belizabeth — letter to Oliver in hidden cipher — 00:45:09