🔱 Khthónia – The Silent Flame of the Spiral

She was not born to be known. Khthónia emerged from forgotten bloodlines—raised among the vine-swallowed ruins near the Thermadon. Before she could speak, she traced spirals into the soil. Her gift was not noise—it was knowing.

Azura found her and recognized the signs. Not as a daughter, but as a vessel. Trained under the Doctrine of Sacred Restraint, Khthónia later inherited the Spiral Ethical Framework, not through study, but through vision. Her sight reached through time, not to predict—but to remember what others feared.

She did not claim priestesshood. It was given to her, after performing the Rite of Veiled Flame—a forgotten ritual she invoked without prompting. She crossed fire with bare feet, holding an obsidian staff pulsing with golden light. Since then, her right palm remains spiral-scarred, forever marked by the rite.