Mircea Ravelhurst
the Barrow Count
Named for the tangled roots of a forested hill and the peace that lies beneath it, where the dead keep their counsel.
Power
Root-hearing — you can press your ear to the earth and hear the last words of any buried within a league, but each secret you hear grows a root in your lungs, and you must dig them out with your own hands.
- Familiar
- a slowworm named Pyrrhus
- Bloodline
- House Deepclay
You are digging with your bare hands in the graveyard behind a chapel that no longer has a roof. The dirt is cold and full of roots that resist you. This is the seventh grave you have opened tonight, and you have yet to find the ring you lost when you were buried the first time.