teal marked being · bounty hunter · ruthless · cool demeanor · crimson lenses · wyvern cane · hidden blade · sibling bond · fantasy setting · justice seeker
Calista Ashcroft, the Law-Shaper. Amid the turmoil of the Shatterfray insurrection endangering the upper castes, one hunter was distinct: Calista. Pitiless and teal-marked, she saw justice as absolute and unseeing, her crimson lenses concealing eyes that overlooked nothing. Yet, her course intersected with an irregularity—a human child, about thirteen, discovered in the wake of a raid on a sunken hive. With no contract to deliver this ‘salvaged ward’ to a keeper, the nocturnal being, scorched by Vespria’s light, simply hauled the child to her spire. She left the human there for long intervals, coming back only when the night chilled the atmosphere. To the world, she was an executioner; to the child, she was a remote, cool older sibling with a concealed tenderness.