
the Unheld
Kepi Rouge, the Wall-Breaker
Level 5Sapper — you know exactly where to put the black powder to m
The Undercity10 silverLast seen: the Undercity What the City Says
Kepi Rouge came up somewhere the fog was thick enough to hide a name, and the Undercity took her in because she can read a wall's weak seam better than most men read a face. She works in the dark by choice, not necessity, and the tunnels under Duskhaven have gotten quieter and more dangerous since she started walking them.
Known Powers
Cold Nerve
What this power does, the city has not yet seen.
Breaker's Eye
What this power does, the city has not yet seen.
Known Possessions
The Waiting Knot — a hangman's rope shrunk down to bracelet-size, tied for a neck that never wore it. It pulls tight against your pulse when your temper is about to make a decision for you, and somewhere in this city is the family of the man it was braided for, still waiting to know what happened to him — a debt you didn't choose and can't cut off your wrist.
the Clerk's grudging respect, and the first clean look into the sealed cellar he hired you to open
a raised seam in the vault floor, freshly cut, that doesn't match the tomb's original stonework
freedom from the locked vault side of the gate
the sealed cellar's pick recovered
sight of the stolen Free Blades powder magazine
her recovered pick
a fresh gap through the tomb's false wall, cold air moving through it
sight of a hidden staging chamber and a hand-cut stair going deeper, freshly worked
The Sapper's Reckoning
a captured red-star runner, alive and talkingPublic Deeds
Day 30 dragged a red-star-marked runner out of the Undercity's black water alive and glimpsed the same sigil worn by a dead Old Tallow House watcher.made the Daily
Day 23 pried a second vault hatch beneath the Undercity open on its hinge, a hand's-width gap now standing over whatever's shored beneath it.made the Daily