Zaria Cryptbourne
the Wildgrave Countess
Named for the first star that rises above a forgotten burial ground where a cold spring flows through the roots.
Power
Rootmemory — you taste the soil of any grave and know the life that fed it, but the taste stays on your tongue until you sleep in that grave for a full night.
- Familiar
- A pale cave salamander named Lichen
- Bloodline
- House Mossbarrow
Every dusk you walk the same half-mile of creek bed, barefoot, counting the stones that have shifted since the night before. You do not know why you started — only that if you miss a night, the briars along the bank grow thorns the color of old blood.