Carmilla Ashbourne
the Salt-Crowned Countess
Named for the ash that chokes the stream where you drowned your first, and the old word for a vineyard that yields no harvest.
Power
Tidecalling — you pull the sea to your will, dragging ships to shore or stranding them, but the brine always demands a memory you’ll never recall again.
- Familiar
- A hermit crab named Pilgrim
- Bloodline
- The Salt-Kin
They say you never enter a room without the smell of low tide following. They say your voice sounds like waves pulling back from a shingle beach. You have not taken a ship since the year the Great Storm swallowed the fleet — you prefer to walk, because the sea is a gossip and you have heard enough.