Meredith Venn

Backstory

Meredith was raised in the shadow of Castle Valoria's libraries, where her mother—a disgraced scholar—hid after fleeing the Wilds decades ago. Haunted by fragmented memories of something vast and hungry in the corrupted forest, her mother spent her final years deciphering forbidden texts, teaching Meredith that the kingdom's safety rested on secrets buried deeper than stone. Now Meredith serves as the castle's unofficial archivist and hedge witch, tolerated but never quite trusted. When the Whispered Crown's ultimatum arrived, she alone recognized the cadence in its words—the same ancient language whispered in her mother's fevered nightmares.