Melisande Marblemere
the Brine-Spangled Countess
Named for the still pool of seawater that lies in the heart of a marble quarry, where salt crystals bloom like frozen flowers.
Power
You can draw the salt from any living thing, leaving it desiccated but preserved — a perfect, unmoving version of itself. The salt you take must go somewhere, so you carry a small leather pouch that grows heavier with every life you touch.
- Familiar
- A starfish named Bitter
- Bloodline
- House Brinespun
You keep a glass jar on your windowsill, filled with water from a sea you have never seen. Inside it, a single barnacle grows, its shell spiraling against the glass. You tell yourself it is a compass, but it has never pointed anywhere but inward.