Ottavia Vespergate
the Ashthrone Countess
Named for the eighth daughter of a house whose gate only opens at dusk, and the ash that settles on the threshold like a promise.
Power
You call the moonlight through ashfall — it burns cold and leaves no mark on flesh, but it strips the truth from any lie, and you see the liar's face as it was in their moment of greatest shame.
- Familiar
- a moon-moth named Soot
- Bloodline
- House Ashenmoon
You still pour the first glass of wine into the ash garden every evening, though no one has asked you why in seventy years. The garden is black and silent, but something drinks it before dawn. You have never seen it, but you know its name is the one you gave to the moon when you were the only one listening.