Ciaran Palethorn
the Cinder Count
Named for a pale thornbush that grows only in ash-choked soil, and for the man who first burned his own house down to watch the embers dance.
Power
You can summon a single ember from any fire you have witnessed, and it will cling to your target until it has consumed whatever they loved most — but you must first press a live coal into your own palm.
- Familiar
- A screech-owl named None
- Bloodline
- House Cinderfall
You keep a silver matchbox in your breast pocket, though you have never struck a match in your life. The last time you held a flame, it was your father's study, and you were twelve, and you remember the way the books curled like dying ferns. You do not keep the box for memory — you keep it because it is the only thing that has not yet turned to ash in your hands.