Janos Vermilmere
the Wormwood Count
Named for the bitter herb that grows on graves and the drowned lake where the worms remember every corpse they have fed on.
Power
You can speak the final promise of any buried thing — one command per grave, and the dead will obey, but each word costs you a year of your own sleep.
- Familiar
- A cranefly named Debt-Keeper
- Bloodline
- House Wormmere
The people of the marsh say you were never born, that you crawled out of the peat fully dressed and already hungry. They are wrong — you were born, but your mother was a grave, and your father was a lie told by a priest who forgot your name in the middle of the prayer.