Gaspard Nightheim
the Charnel Count
Named for the treasure he guards within the earth and the eternal night of his ancestral crypt.
Power
You can sense every bone buried within a league of you; with a touch, you command the dead to rise – but each skeleton you raise costs you a year of memory, and you have forgotten the faces of everyone you ever loved.
- Familiar
- a piebald ferret named Marrow
- Bloodline
- House Gravewaking
You are polishing a femur that once belonged to a king, and you do not remember his name. The bone is smooth from a century of handling – it is the only thing you have left that does not rot. You set it beside the others, each one a debt you cannot pay.