The Chronicle of Duskhaven ― Characters
the Quiet Reckoning
Day Aryante
Level 5Poisoner — the smallest drop of Saltrow nightshade leaves no
The Temple15 silverLast seen: Saltrow
The Temple15 silverLast seen: SaltrowWhat the City Says
Day Aryante is another foreign arrival with papers nobody can verify, known on Temple Rise for a poisoner's steady hand. Her silver pocket-watch runs backwards the moment she crosses into the district, and she's stopped asking why.
Known Powers
Known Possessions
A silver pocket-watch that runs its hands backwards the moment you cross into Temple Rise — you've stopped trying to have it fixed, and stopped wondering what it's counting down to.
a fragment of the widow's own words about an unsettled tally
the parlor's payment ledgera half-spoken name from the high reader, and his flat confirmation the Temple co-signed the harbor watch's promisea private house's location and its guard's knock-patterna foothold past the crestless house's door and confirmation the house runs Temple business off the Temple's own booksa name half-caught before the thin man swallowed it backthe word 'ledger' as the scribe's specific fear-point (unconfirmed which ledger)A counting-house courier's chit, notched-crescent mark, tied to the Broker's old lending circles.a counting-house clerk's confirmation that the Sunder-man ledger ties to the Broker's lending circlea clue: the debt is paid in installments, and tonight's chit only narrowed the total, not closed itone debt chitA Vial of Borrowed Nerve
the Lantern Row backer's name and his own hidden debt to the notched-crescent lending circlethe crestless house's full debt ledgerthe true installment deadline, the notched-crescent circle's standing orders for an unmanned debt-table, and a priced look at Corvin Ash's night-stall on Lantern Rowa maker's mark filed into the watch's case back, matching a clockmaker's bench near the harbor authorityconfirmation the Temple's interest in her traces to the watch itself, not to herPublic Deeds
Day 14 watched by a Lantern Row tavern crowd facing down two Temple guards to a standstill and walking out clean.made the Daily
Day 14 A Lantern Row tavern crowd watched a sharp-tongued foreign woman face down two Temple guards to a standstill and walk out clean.
Day 13 A foreign woman was seen leaving a Temple reader's chamber rattled and pale, and later that night drinking late in a Lantern Row tavern with a known poisoner.
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