👑 CROWNED HORROR — KEEPER OF A WOUND

Vhessa, the Coilrot Queen

SERPENT PIT

She was the granary-warden's prize python once, grown fat on the tithe-barns of the Marches. The rot found her first of all. Now she coils through the Serpent Pit's spiral terraces, learning every dodge her visitors attempt, and mothers of the Marches still leave grain at her door out of habit.