Norah Tendulkar

Norah Tendulkar is the builder and designer of the Mount Absalom observatory telescope, and a ghost. As a ghost, she is unable to leave the observatory.

Early Life
Norah was born in Liverpool, England, and her family was from Bihar, India. Her father was a navigator on a cargo ship that travelled across the Atlantic between Liverpool and Boston. When Norah was around two or three, her family moved to Boston, via the cargo ship her father worked on. When they arrived, her father resigned his commission, and the family settled down in Cambridge.

Her parents fought a lot after the move. One night, when she was thirteen, Norah sneaked out of her room so she didn't have to listen to another argument, and walked through the streets of Boston. She eventually ended up at the harbor, near Fort Independence. Across the water she could see the lighthouse on Deer Island, and through a gap in the clouds she could see a sky full of stars. It was that moment, looking up and wondering if the stars above were also lighthouses, that inspired her to eventually build the observatory.

Death
Nora died while looking through her telescope at Omega Centauri. There was a loud noise, like a lightning strike, and then Nora was in another part of the observatory, while her body was still by the telescope.

Norah's body was found by Ezra Cartwright, part-time janitor of the observatory and later mayor of Mount Absalom.

Norah spent several decades as a ghost trying to get visiting astronomers to help her fix the telescope, but all of them were scared of her being a ghost, until Rudy.

Abilities
Norah can replicate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death. The only exceptions to this are sounds made by Wes and Silas Lodge, whom she calls anomalies.

She can also disappear at will.

With concentration, Norah can achieve limited corporeality.