Seraphine Vermilhollow
the Ember-Crypt Countess
Seraphine means 'burning ones,' Vermilhollow a hollow of red clay; together they name a thing that burned so hot it left a hollow in the world.
Power
You can coax roots to grow through bone and stone, binding the dead to your will — but the soil remembers your touch and grows more acidic with each binding, so that nothing will grow over your graves but nettles and rust.
- Familiar
- a desiccated jackal named Khefri
- Bloodline
- The Hollowed Pyre
‘You will not remember this,’ she said, and she was right. You recall only the taste of soil and the sound of her heels on stone. The rest is a hollow you have filled with stolen years. You keep a garden of moonflowers over the exact spot where you first woke.