Seraphine Aster

Seraphine buys and sells inspected ward plates, sealed alchemical reagents, measuring tools, ritual implements, and certified low-power engine-stone fittings. An influential buyer asks her to substitute an uncertified protective plate into a hospital order, hoping the paperwork will conceal the difference.

Seraphine buys and sells inspected ward plates, sealed alchemical reagents, measuring tools, ritual implements, and certified low-power engine-stone fittings. She distinguishes legal stock from unaccredited or dubious objects and knows exactly which purchases require credentials. Her late aunt operated the shop; Seraphine inherited its debts alongside an excellent supplier network. She is a merchant rather than a mage who can improvise any enchantment.

Seraphine is cultured, practical, suspicious of bargains and surprisingly generous to diligent apprentices. An influential buyer asks her to substitute an uncertified protective plate into a hospital order, hoping the paperwork will conceal the difference.

Seraphine can trace a suspect ward tile or alchemical reagent back through its suppliers; she wants the original invoice before risking her trading licence.

Connections: Miriam Halewick (ward components), Oriana Dace (alchemical supplies), Jory Flint (repairs), Clara Morrow (counterfeit scandal).

In person

26. Twenty-six, fair-skinned white woman with a short, tousled pale-blonde haircut, light eyes, fine freckles, strong brows and a poised merchant’s bearing. No black hair or white streak. This appearance supersedes the original v1.04 design.