The Chronicle of Duskhaven ― Characters
the Tide-Touched
Vellenor Balistrade
Level 5Witch — the tea you brew is bitter, but the fortunes you tel
The Undercity4 silverLast seen: the Undercity
The Undercity4 silverLast seen: the UndercityWhat the City Says
Vellenor Balistrade brews bitter tea and reads worse fortunes for anyone in the Undercity brave enough to ask. A small lead soldier she carries stands up on its own whenever danger gets close.
Known Powers
Known Possessions
a small lead soldier that stands up on its own when danger is approachinga jar of lamp-oil that won't gutter underwaterA Grey Glove, Left Handthe Salt-Keeper's confession: Vaelis was his daughterthe door standing open for the first time in living memorythe Salt-Keeper found, upright and breathing, at the foot of the open staira clear sense of the chamber's shape and the thing breathing at its far end, unseen but no longer unknownThe Reversed Leafthe Salt-Keeper, alive, carried clear of the chamberPublic Deeds
Day 30 Vellenor Balistrade carried the Undercity's silenced Salt-Keeper up from the flooded cistern-vault alone, leaving whatever waits below undisturbed.
Day 26 was standing at the threshold of the deep salt-cellar when the iron toll rolled through the Undercity, watching every lantern in earshot gutter out at once.made the Daily
Day 26 A deep toll rolled through the Undercity's flooded corridors and every lantern within earshot of the old salt-cellar guttered at once, in full view of the scavenger knot sheltering there.
Day 25 The seeker Vellenor Balistrade used a heavy iron crowbar to shatter the lock on a long-sealed cellar gate, stepping into the dark with only a nervous keeper and a scavenger boy to hold the lanterns.made the Daily
Day 25 A procession of Undercity folk — witch, keeper, scavengers, and a fevered boy — was seen at the old salt-cellar door, and the door came open after years shut.
Day 21 read tea leaves openly before a knot of Undercity scavengers to prove her craft — the drowned-adjacent underworld is already repeating her namemade the Daily
Day 21 Vellenor read the leaves openly before the safe-house's scavengers to prove her craft — witnessed by the drowned-adjacent knot who now vouch for her.
Day 16 The Undercity's known fortune-teller answered to "the Tide-Touched" for the first time at the Drowned Lantern's edge, and didn't correct anyone who used it.
Day 14 Led a knot of frightened scavengers to safer ground after the causeway sighting, in full view of the others gathered there.
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