Level 3Herbalist — you know which leaf cures the fever and which onThe Crown35 silverLast seen: Palace Hill
What the City Says
Esme Meadows grew up a runaway ward of the Crown with her face on old bounty posters, and now trades in herbs and hard-won information on Palace Hill. She carries a bronze key that opens any door there once a year, unspent.
Known Powers
Kind Poison
Tastes the lie hiding inside any deal before the ink is ever signed.
Known Possessions
A bronze key that opens any door on Palace Hill, but only once a year — you have never spent its one turn, and tonight might be the night that changes.a floor-plan scrap of the record rooms, marked in a hand neither woman recognizesa name overheard in the gallery — R. Noctis, on a page boy's errand slipthe household ledger and the page-boy's errand slipa courier's identity tentatively tied to the seneschal's office
Public Deeds
Day 18 A household guard pulled a hidden woman from a laundry basket during the loyalty sweep, in full view of the corridor.