Aisling Elderbrook
the Thorncrown Fairy
Born of a vision dreamed beside the elder-tangled stream where shadows drink and thorns bloom overnight.
Power
You can pluck a shadow from a liar's heel and pin it to elder bark with a thorn; the shadow withers until the truth is spoken, but each lie caught costs you a splinter of your own memory.
- Familiar
- A crest-tailed shrew named Vetch, whose left ear is missing a notch and who chitters when a thorn is about to sprout.
- Court
- Thornshadow Court
The old women of the court say you were never a girl, but a bargain that the Elderbrook made with the night itself. You arrived in a flood of shadow and black berries, and the throne you took grew from a single thorn that pierced the floor of the great hall. You have never asked if they are right; you simply let them carve stories into the walls.