Orthael Rivergaze
the Orichalcum Elf
Named for the eternal flame that once burned on the river's surface, casting a bronze light on the water, and for the unblinking gaze of the one who watched it.
Power
Bronzeforging — you can shape molten metal with your hands, but each piece you forge cools into a singular item that can never be unmade or reforged, and you must give a piece of your own memory to the fire.
- Familiar
- a copper-scaled fire salamander named Crucible
- House
- House Rivergaze
You will not drink from the river, though your throat is dry with forge-dust. You know that the water would quench the spark in your chest, and you have spent so many years feeding that spark with your own embers that you cannot remember what it felt like to be cool. Your house calls it devotion; your familiar, a curse. You call it survival.