Ysolde Meltwater, the Under-Ice Diver
Alignment: True Neutral
Class: Salvage diver working the meltwater beneath the lake ice
Race: Water Genasi
Role: neutral
Status: alive
Voice: Quiet, slow, unhurried. Trails into silence rather than finishing a sentence she is not sure of.
Description
When the glacier began giving Brightloch back its drowned century, somebody had to go down and look. Ysolde Meltwater goes down. She is a water genasi salvage diver who works the black water beneath the lake ice, hauling up barge cargo, lost boundary stones, wedding rings, and occasionally people, and she does it without ever asking who a thing belonged to. That silence has made her the most trusted and most resented person in town: everyone wants her to dive for them, and nobody likes what she
Appearance
Pale blue-green, with hair the colour of wet slate that never fully dries and steams faintly indoors. Wears forty feet of knotted guide-line coiled across her chest like a bandolier, one knot per dive she did not expect to come back from.
Motives
Put things back in the hands they were taken from, and do it before anyone's contracts decide the lake's leavings belong to a stranger. She has never called this a moral position. She calls it tidying.
Personality
Soft-spoken to the point of inaudibility in a crowded room, with long pauses she does not rush to fill. Counts aloud out of habit, a diver's cadence, and will keep counting under her breath through an argument until whoever is shouting runs out.