Karkki Does Art

Cassia can disguise herself as other people via transformation magic. You can’t actually see her real reflection in mirrors, it's just a visual effect to show the "lie". The magic does involve killing people, drinking their blood and making a jewelry out of their hair, so not maybe the most ethical method, but very effective till people notice the person you are impersonating as is dead.

Agrippa’s favorite thing in life is painting and she would do that as her profession if she had a choice. She loves painting her favorite scenes from books, portraits and animals, but hates painting landscapes, though sometimes does them as practice anyway.

Faerathos is not a morning person.

There’s an abandoned orphanage in Amari. It’s in the middle of the city (or the poor area of it), and it has just been standing and it’s patio has been taken over by the plants. It wasn’t a good orphanage. Valeri and Fiolew lived there the first year after they came to Amari, till it was shut down after having too little funding. There was never a lot of funding to begin with and therefore many children died out of diseases that were mostly common and treatable, some out of negligence.

The spirits of some of the children who died over the years refused to leave. Ghosts in this world can’t really do anything. They just are sad, lonely and in search of something they needed when they were alive. In places where there are many wandering, in between, spirits, they tend to lump together and that happened in the orphanage too. The ghosts merged with the spirit of the orphanage itself. It’s not especially malevolent spirit. It wants to eat adult souls, and play with children. If children won’t play with it, it might eat their souls too.

The child gang that occupied the old orphanage after it’s abandonment always gave it it’s own food and cup of drink, even though it can’t eat other than spirits, and included it in their plays, so it let them stay. They even brought back the adults that were nuisances to them (guards for example) as sacrifices for the orphanage.

Cassia’s get ready routine starts by strapping on the hidden blade.

Some more Halloween spookiness!