Malina Shroudfall
the Pyre Countess
Named for the cold hearth of a burned-down manor and the raspberry brambles that grew through the ash.
Power
You can compress a dying fire into a single ember that never cools — you carry it in your ribcage, and when you press a palm to a living heart, it smolders from within.
- Familiar
- A charcoal-black fox with cinder-flecked fur named Kindling
- Bloodline
- House Cinderfall
You keep a locket with no portrait inside — only a pinch of grey dust that was once a hand you held. You have not opened it in forty years, but you know the exact weight of it against your collarbone. The fire that took your house took everything else, and you have been cold ever since.