Janos Palestone
the Emberwraith Count
Named for the pale stone that held warmth like a secret, and for the grace that comes only after everything else has burned away.
You can exhale a slow ember that burns without light or sound, and what it touches remembers the heat long after the flame is gone—but each ember costs a year from the next dawn you would have seen.
- Familiar
- A leech named Cinder
- Bloodline
- House Cinderwight
It was a Tuesday when the coal in your kitchen stove refused to die. You stoked it, banked it, opened the flue—it only glowed brighter, patient. That evening you touched the grate and your palm did not blister; instead you felt the long pulse of something that had slumbered under the earth for centuries. When you finally walked out into the snow, your footprints were warm and the ice did not touch you.