Bathory Hollowmourn
the Ash-Veil Countess
Named for the blood-soaked countess whose name you bear and the hollow grief that lingers like ash in a hearth after the fire is long dead.
Power
You can collapse into a cloud of ash that moves with the draft, slipping through the smallest cracks — but each time you do, you lose a fragment of who you were, and the ash leaves a scorch-mark that never fades.
- Familiar
- a moth with ash-patterned wings named Lament
- Bloodline
- House Cinderheart
You keep a single blackened ring of bone on your smallest finger, the only thing left of the woman who taught you to curtsy. You will not say her name now — it is buried in the same ash as her body.