Galariel Greymantle
the Deeproot Elf
Named for the taproot of the family oak that splits the granite of the high hills, drawn from the old word for 'stone-cleaver' and the mantle of grey lichen she wore at her first binding.
Rootbind — you can call the roots of the deep oak to hold firm any gate or door, but they will not release until the next new moon, and you feel every splinter as a cut in your own palm.
- Familiar
- a black ibex named Sickle
- House
- House Greymantle
'The stone does not complain,' the elders told you, their voices dry as old bark. You were eight decades old, kneeling in the root-cave beneath the Greymantle grove, your palms pressed into soil that had not seen sun since the first house fell. You have been listening ever since, and you have learned that the earth complains all the time — in a language too slow for the living to hear.