Lorenzo Duskheim
the Ashcrowned Count
Named for the laurel that never wilts and the twilight house where shadows are born as servants.
Power
Ashcloak — you dissolve into ash and shadow at will, but when you reform you always carry the scent of a burnt promise, and you cannot hold anything living in that form.
- Familiar
- a coal-eyed viper named Cinder
- Bloodline
- Ashen Vigil
You light a single candle every dusk, not to see by, but to watch it burn down to nothing. You have done this for three centuries, in the same room, at the same hour. The candle is always the same: unbleached wax, no scent. It is the only thing in your long life that still ends.