Ottilie Sombregate
the Emberwraith Countess
Named for the gate of shadow that stands between the living world and the smoldering hearth of the dead.
Power
You can draw the dying ember of any fire into your palm and hold it burning without fuel — but each ember you keep leaves a coal-black scar on your skin, and the scars remember every fire you have ever stolen.
- Familiar
- a soot-colored scarab beetle named Ember
- Bloodline
- House Sombregate
You smudge a thumbprint of ash on the mirror's corner every dusk before you do anything else. It is the only face you own now that the glass shows you a woman made of smoke and memory. You learned that trick from a witch who burned for her art, and you carry her ash in a locket that never grows warm.