Dragana Vanerose
the Rootfast Countess
Named for the wild rose that thrusts through cracked marble, its roots holding the bones of an old house together.
Power
Root-threading — you can feel the earth's memory through any root or vine you touch, and step from one rooted thing to another within a league, but every passage pulls a year from your living count.
- Familiar
- A blind mole named Knurl
- Bloodline
- House Vanerose
You will not dig up the rosebush that grew from your first grave. You remember how the roots felt — like fingers laced around your ribs — and you know that what stays buried stays yours. The cost of refusal is this: every spring, a new thorn grows under your skin, and you pluck it out to plant it somewhere else.