Rumil Starwood
the Stormgilded Elf
Named for the secret grove where the first lightning scarred a golden bough, and the wood remembers the strike.
Power
Gilding Bolt — you call lightning that does not kill but marks, turning the thing struck to solid gold for a single moon. You can only call it when the sky is bruised with clouds, and each use strips a year from your life.
- Familiar
- a storm petrel named Rune
- House
- House Starwood
You will not enter the town of Goldhaven again, not after the forge-master asked you to turn his daughter's dowry into a perfect hour of sunlight. You did it, and she married a man who had no idea why the light in her dowry chest did not fade for three days. The forge-master died rich. You left the gold behind.