Cassilda Vesperstone
the Emberlit Countess
Named for the candle that burns through the longest night and the stone that holds the ash of a thousand eves.
Power
You command ash and ember — you can blind with a handful of ash or ignite dry timber at a glance, but the fire always leaves a mark on you: a new scar, small and black, somewhere the world cannot see.
- Familiar
- A melanistic desert viper named Creosote
- Bloodline
- House Cindercoat
You have never set foot in the cathedral the villagers built to pray you away. You remember the smoke of the first burning, three hundred years ago, when they lit your own house with you inside it — and you will not give them the satisfaction of your return. The sexton still finds black feathers on the altar steps every dawn.