Igna Ashwalker

Speaker of the Ashwalkers, an Asheni woman who speaks in observation rather than command — she holds the fumarole paths and will share them once she has decided you will not break something the mountain is still using.

Igna watches more than she speaks. She reads the Emberthrone's smoke-columns the way the Reshi read the night sky: as language. The fumarole paths are in her head and the heads of her three most trusted Listeners, and nowhere written down.