Matthias Requiemspire
the Salt-Stained Count
Named for the spire of a drowned cathedral where the tide never fully recedes, and the requiems still echo from the bell tower's seabed.
Power
Brine-teeth — you can command the salt in a creature's blood to crystallize just enough to remind it of its own fragility, but every use deposits a grain of salt in your heart until it crushes you from within.
- Familiar
- a pistol shrimp named Snap
- Bloodline
- House Salt-Echo
They say you carry the smell of low water wherever you go, that your footprints sometimes glisten as though you've wept. They say you laugh at funerals and toast the dead with seawater. You remember the night the spire cracked — you were inside, and the salt rushed in to fill the silence. You have been smiling ever since.