Valerian Marblewraith
the Stormcrown Count
Named for the valerian root that steadies the heart against lightning-strike, and the way marble holds a cold so deep it seems to breathe.
Power
You call lightning from a clear sky, but each stroke costs a memory you hold sacred — after three calls, you have forgotten your own mother's face.
- Familiar
- a storm-petrel named Nimbus
- Bloodline
- House Marblewraith
You keep a silver key to a door that no longer exists, in a house that burned down the night you stopped dying. The lock still turns in your hand, but it opens onto nothing. That is how you learned that storms are born of absence.