Fynne Rongeur

⚜️ Lady Fynne Rongeur

“The Silent Sister”
Younger Daughter of Ysmera Rongeur ·

Born 603 PR, Him Feppir Bastion, Tudor Empire
Titles (recorded): Lady of the Third Branch, Keeper of the Crimson Bastion (nominal)
Faith: Once Tymira the Merciful.
Motto: “All debts echo.”

Daughter of the Mirror (603 – 613 PR)

Fynne was born in the candle-lit chambers of Him Feppir Bastion, beneath the watch of her mother’s mirror cult.
Where her brother Merthin cried fiercely at birth, Fynne entered the world in silence—breathing, seeing, but making no sound.
Ysmera took this as omen: “One child for the sea, one for the flame.”

From infancy, Fynne was surrounded by servants who whispered scripture of Zonid’s Tides, yet she was educated by the Sisters of Tymira, who tended the wounded left from Efram’s wars.
This dual upbringing split her soul: half healer, half seer.
At eight, she wrote in her prayerbook:

“Mother sees the future in glass; I see it in blood that refuses to dry.”

She was gentle where Merthin was cunning, humble where Ysmera was commanding.
The keep’s priests called her “The Quiet Grace of Him Feppir.”
No one yet guessed what silence was building inside her.

The Inheritance of Shadows (613 – 618 PR)

Between 613 and 618 PR, Fynne began visiting the lower sanctums forbidden to all but her mother’s clergy.
There she discovered fragments of The Book of Folded Hours, Ysmera’s journal describing the Mirror of Zonid and the secret of “time that drowns.”

The entries fascinated and horrified her:

• “To touch the Mirror is to speak with all your ghosts at once.”
• “The hour bleeds backward until mercy becomes guilt.”

Fynne copied these passages, believing her mother had not been mad but misunderstood.
When the Silverbrand inquisitors raided Him Feppir in 614 PR, she smuggled three apprentices and the mirror shards to safety through the catacombs.
One survivor later testified she carried a shard that “whispered the names of those not yet dead.”

By 616 PR, Fynne had left the Bastion entirely, journeying under false name as a pilgrim of Tymira.
She sought absolution for her house’s heresies—offering alms, healing the sick, and refusing payment.
Yet every night she dreamt of a clock with hands of bone, ticking beneath the sea.

The Pilgrim of the West (616 – 618 PR)

Fynne’s travels brought her to Dinkawal, where she encountered the Vipère alchemists—her brother Merthin’s secret allies.
Among them she met a Drevrenic scholar named Ser Kael Thornel, who believed that Tymira’s mercy and Drevrena’s shadow were “two eyes of the same god.”
Under his influence she began practicing dream binding, using trance and mirror water to heal minds.

But her patients described strange side-effects: they remembered future sins.
Word spread of the “Mirror-Nun who shows your tomorrow’s remorse.”
The Church of Tymira condemned her rites; the Vipères admired her results.
She healed nobles’ madness, erasing memory of guilt—while their crimes repeated soon after.

Fynne recorded in her journal:

“Mercy heals nothing. It merely delays the wound until it remembers itself.”