The Equinox Auction
A week before the equinox, day and night put equal hours up for bid. Bidders offer blood, memories, and harvest shares; the winner tilts the season. Rig the auction for balance, steal the gavel of dusk, or outbid a winter court agent who wants endless night by October.
Faces in the wings
Thaddeus Scarecroft
- Human
- Female
- Adult
Role
- Occupation
- River toll clerk
Character
- Motivation
- Paying a cicada choir to stop singing a true name
- Personality
- Charismatic and persuasive
- Background
- Innkeeper who knows everyone's secrets
Details
- Quirk
- Fans themselves with official documents
- Speaking style
- Uses nautical metaphors constantly
- Private fear
- Picnics that never end
- Secret
- Signed autumn's lease a week early
- Signature item
- Spectacles that show people's last meal