Alcyone Hollowmere
the Icecrown Witch
Named for the star Alcyone, which falls into the frozen mere, and for the stillness of water under ice.
Power
Frostscrying — you read lost memories in the patterns of ice formed over a silent lake, and you can command the water to freeze or thaw at your will.
- Familiar
- a kingfisher named Stillwater
- Coven
- Frostmere
You would not kneel. They came to you with crowns of frozen lakeweed, and you did not lower your gaze. The mere held its breath that winter, and the ice spoke your name. Since then the waters answer only to you, and the hoarfrost remembers your face.
Where the name comes from
Alcyone — the halcyon, kingfisher of calm seas.
Hollowmere — Hollow (a hollow) + mere (lake).