The Girl With the Scar

A nameless girl taken from her destroyed village at age five, with a gash across her left brow. She endured years in the Veykar's hellish kitchens without ever crying, transforming her suffering into mastery of fire and food. She rose from the pits to cook for the Draethan, then the Veykar himself—becoming his most trusted advisor through silence and skill. She ultimately poisoned him in vengeance for her family and all his victims.