Anastasia Wraithgate
the Bone-Girt Countess
Named for the gate that opens only when the last heir kneels, and the bones that seal it shut.
Power
You call calcium from the earth to encase a victim’s limbs in brittle white cages — but each casting costs a fingernail or a tooth, and you have replaced your entire skeleton three times.
- Familiar
- A blood-drinking toad named Bogdan
- Bloodline
- House Girtbone
You keep the rusted key to the Wraithgate crypt door on a chain around your neck. It has never opened anything — through that door is only packed earth and the root systems of yew trees. That is where your mother told you the family secret, and where she left you to decide whether to dig or stay.