Sister Leopolda

Pauline Puyat is a major character in Tracks.

She first appeared in Love Medicine as an old, angry nun who lived in constant fear of demons and was particularly harsh on her pupil Marie Kashpaw, including an incident where she traumatically scalded her on a stove. Marie would later go back to her and display her daughter Zelda Kashpaw in an attempt to prove that she had made something of her life. By this point, Leopolda's physical and mental health was failing. She attempted to beat Marie with a spoon and had it stolen by her. Later on, another nun is said to inhabit the room at the end of the hallway that was once hers.

In Tracks, Pauline Puyat is a scrawny and awkward but devout young girl. She does not get along well with her family. They are soon struck by a Consumption epidemic leaving her orphaned. She lives in Dutch James' butcher shop, where she befriends her cousin Russell and Fleur Pillager. She witnesses the rape of the latter that produces Lulu Lamartine. Out of embarrassment, she leaves and lives with the at-the-time respected Morrissey Family, living in their barn. She developed a rivalry with her adoptive sister Sophie due to seeing her sexual activity as non-religious. She experimented in a fling with her adoptive father. Marie was, unknown to her, produced by this union. Out of shame, Pauline came to view Marie as satanic. N|During this time, she was still friends with Fleur and her adoptive father Nanapush, often visiting them at Fleur's Cabin or Nanapush's house. She began experiencing hallucinations which she took to be miracles, including tears emanating from the Virgin Mary Statue that Clarence had stolen from a church. She joins the Church and takes the name Leopolda, liking it's power.

Despite this, she is alive in Tales of Burning Love, taking place in 1997. She is revealed to have been involved with Jack Mauser.