Riavel Shadowthorn
the Shadeblade
Named for the breath between the last light and the first wound, when the steel drinks the dark.
Power
Bladeshadow — you can step into any patch of shadow and emerge from another within your sight, but you leave a trail of frost that warns the wary.
- Familiar
- a coal-black kestrel named Ember
- House
- House Shadowthorn
You keep a shard of obsidian wrapped in leather, a splinter from the first blade ever quenched in shadow. It has never drawn blood, but you swear it remembers every life it has ever touched. You carry it because forgetting is the one thing you refuse to do.