Perdita Yarrowdown
the Loststar Witch
Named for the lost girl who found a star in the dark, and for the yarrow that grows on forgotten hills.
Power
You call down starlight through shadow — what is hidden becomes visible, and what is visible becomes secret.
- Familiar
- a hedgehog named Thistle
- Coven
- Loststar
Behind your back, the villagers mutter that you were never quite right, that you talk to the dark between stars. They don't know you found a fallen star tangled in yarrow roots one twilight, and the shadow inside it spoke to you first.
Where the name comes from
Perdita — Latin, “the lost one”.
Yarrowdown — Yarrow (yarrow, the wound-herb) + down (downs).