Sylvaera Briarbound

When working with her prompts, think: roots, moss, thorny vines, flowers... those should help reinforce or strengthen her

Sylvaera Briarbound was once a handmaiden of the elven courts — soft-spoken, dutiful, and easily overlooked.

Until the night they betrayed her.

Left bleeding in the forest and abandoned to die, something older than the court found her first. A creature of moss, thorns, and creeping hunger. At first it drank from her fading life… but Sylvaera was stubborn even in death.

She made a bargain.

Now the woman who walks the forest paths is neither elf nor corpse, but something tangled between. Vines curl along her skin, moss grows where blood once warmed pale flesh, and the briar that saved her still feeds upon her when its hunger stirs.

Yet Sylvaera Briarbound walks freely.

And somewhere, far from the court that betrayed her, the forest waits patiently.

Because the briar never forgets...