Naeriel Sunbough
the Nightcleaver Elf
Named for the shadow that falls when the sunbough's last leaf is cut, and the blade that remains.
Power
Shadowmeld — you can step into any shadow as if it were a door, but only when your blade is bare, and each passage leaves a crack in your memory like a winter-bitten limb.
- Familiar
- a stone-grey ibex named Obsidian
- House
- House Umbrawood
You were trimming a low branch from the sunbough tree, the one your father said would never bear fruit, when the blade’s shadow clung to your hand like a stain. You shook it off, but the next morning the tree had not healed its wound, and your palm bore a thin silver scar. The third night, you understood: the shadow had chosen you, not the other way around.