Theodora Cypresshollow
the Mistwraith Countess
Named for the pale cypress tree that grows in standing water, its roots breathing mist; the hollow inside it once held a vanished village's drowned bells.
Power
You can call the mist from still water — not to hide but to reveal what was lost; every breath of it carries the memory of a drowning, and you must hold your own breath while it speaks, or you inhale someone else's last gasp.
- Familiar
- A leprous white newt named Tarnish
- Bloodline
- House of the Sunken Bell
You woke in a boat that had no oars, drifting through a fog so thick you could not see your own hands. The water was still and black, but you heard a bell tolling beneath the surface — not for the dead, but for the living who had forgotten how to drown. You never found the shore. You stopped looking.