Ottoline Briarweald
the Stormwrack Witch
Named for the night-deep forest of thorns and the ruin left by lightning, struck from the same wild air.
Power
Cinderlash — you pull the static from the storm and the ash from the dead fire, braiding them into a whip that burns twice: once with heat, once with silence.
- Familiar
- a storm petrel named Scud
- Coven
- Cindermoor
‘The sky is splitting,’ you said, and the old woman pressed a cinder into your palm. You never asked for the burn that followed—how the ash remembered the flame, how the wind answered your quietest word. But when the next storm came, you stood at the treeline and let it see you, and it gave you its name.
Where the name comes from
Briarweald — Briar + weald (forest).