Nuala Stormwood
the Cinderkeeper Elf
Named for the first ember that refused to die in the long winter of her house's founding, a coal that still glows beneath the oldest hearth.
Power
Cinderbinding — you can coax a dying flame into a single hour of fierce heat, but the fuel must come from something you have loved and lost.
- Familiar
- a crow with a white wing named Emberjack
- House
- House Ashenbough
Each dusk you rake the hearth of the Great Hall, sifting ash for the one coal that still glows. You have done this for three hundred years, and you know the weight of every log you have ever fed it. The house calls it a ritual. You call it a reckoning—because when the hearth goes dark, your oath is done.