Naelith Stormglade
the Briarwarden
Named for the tangled thicket that sprouted overnight in the storm-glades after the first lightning strike.
Power
Thornbinding — you can command any thorny vine within a league to rise and grip, but each binding leaves a scar on your palm that never fully heals.
- Familiar
- a mud-crusted boar named Grudge
- House
- House Stormglade
Every dusk you walk the glade's edge, pulling the sharp thorns from your own forearms. You do it as others might pray—a quiet ritual, methodical, with no expectation that the brambles will stop reaching for you. They never do.