Zinnia Hemlockfen
the Shadowbloom Witch
Born of flower and poison marsh, named for the bright bloom that rises from dark waters.
Power
Star-sinking — you call the starlight down into dark water and read the drowned reflections of what is yet to come.
- Familiar
- a crane named Moth
- Coven
- Bogstar
‘The water’s sweet as poison tonight,’ your grandmother said, and you didn’t understand until you tasted what grew in the fen. Decades later, you still carry that taste on your tongue when you kneel at the edge of the bog at dusk, waiting for the first star to fall into the black pool. That’s when the reflections show you truth — your own face, or a stranger’s, or a road you haven’t walked yet.
Where the name comes from
Hemlockfen — Hemlock + fen (marsh).