Ysolde Ironhollow
the Coin-Eyed Countess
Named for the two iron pennies that stayed in her sockets long after her first death, and the hollow in the earth where she learned to listen for the living.
Power
You see in every reflection what the owner has spilled — blood, promise, or secret — and the image does not fade until you choose to look away, though each gaze burns a day's worth of hunger.
- Familiar
- A carrion crow with a single white feather named Inquest
- Bloodline
- House Ironhollow
Your wedding ring still fits, but the finger beneath it has turned the color of old tin. You wore it through the plague years, through the betrayals, through the night they hammered the stake and missed the heart by a thumb's width. The iron in your name is not from a forge — it is what settled in your bones when the hollow claimed you.