Sister Cael of the Cupped Hand

An Ashen Temple anchorite at the Salt-Pan Shrine who walks to the spring and back each dawn to keep the offering bowl wet — a penance she will not explain.

She has kept the shrine bowl from drying for seven years without once saying why. She has seen what crawls out of the Sunbleached Hold's deepest room at night, has prayed it back down twice, and knows a third time is coming. She cannot go herself — the vows, she says, though she says it the way someone says 'I promised' when the promise cost them something worth keeping. She will send a stranger to do what she cannot.