Henryk Umbramark
the Cinderwild Count
Named for the boundary between hearth and wild, where a ruler's shadow stretches into the flame.
Power
You can collapse into a cloud of ash and travel on any wind, but you must reform near a fire—and each time you scatter, you lose a sliver of your own name.
- Familiar
- A desert viper with fused scales named Ashbite
- Bloodline
- Bloodline of the Ashen Gate
You are kneeling in a ring of burned ground, your fingers sifting through ash for something you lost a century ago. The wind picks up, and the shape of a face forms in the cinders—you do not know if it is yours or your enemy's.