The Ledger Crow · The Cinder Ward

Nera

Stitches After Midnight

Biography

Artwork of Nera

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Why Nera entered Mournhand

A 498-word account of the life, loss, wish and dangerous bargain behind this campaign.

Before the table

Nera and MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → were born minutes apart and spent childhood learning the same grief in different languages. MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → listened for what a spirit needed in order to leave. Nera studied the things it left behind: a cuff repaired in haste, a pocket sewn shut from the inside, a name worked into a hem where no clerk would look. Their bond was affectionate and competitive. MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → softened rooms that Nera made honest; Nera noticed dangers that MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography →’s mercy sometimes asked her to overlook. They loved each other, but they stopped trusting the other to make the final choice.

The night everything changed

As a Seam Witch, Nera repaired uniforms returned without their owners. Cloth remembered pressure, blood, weather and frightened hands. When city records declared the missing “unconfirmed,” Nera stitched their testimony into coats worn by living witnesses. Her apprentice helped catalogue those voices and refused to let officials call the work superstition. Then the apprentice vanished. Her voice began answering from the lining of a coat covered in missing names.

The wound that remained

MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → heard frightened spirits asking for a door and cut one binding while Nera begged her to wait. The apprentice called back as the threshold closed. MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → heard the voice, then told Nera she had heard nothing. Nera, desperate when MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → did not return, gave the wardens MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography →’s private route and childhood name so they could bring her home. Instead they sealed the passage with MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → beyond it. Nera had handed hostile authorities the precise way to reach her sister; MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → had decided the fate of Nera’s apprentice and hidden what she heard. Neither act came from hatred. Both came from love sharpened into fear, and each sister has carried only the other’s betrayal because admitting her own feels unbearable.

The bargain sought

Nera enters Mournhand to find the missing apprentice, preserve the testimony of the vanished, and learn what happened to MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → during the sealed hours. Her dangerous wish is to hear the dead tell the whole truth. The table can satisfy those words by stitching a dead voice into a living mouth, forcing someone to carry memories that are not theirs. Nera refuses that answer. Her arc asks when preservation becomes captivity and whether evidence can be protected without denying a spirit the right to leave.

The campaign ahead

Stitches After Midnight brings her through the Returned Coat, the Hands That Remember, the Borrowed Thread and finally the Coat That Whispers. Spindle WidowSpindle WidowC17 · 3 energy · 2/4Every widow in the Cinder Ward leaves a loose thread beneath her door.Read this folio → guards names the city discarded. Mourning BobbinMourning BobbinC19 · 3 energy · 1/5Nera wound this bobbin with the final threads from a hundred funeral coats.Read this folio → repairs everyone except itself. Needlejaw CatNeedlejaw CatC20 · 4 energy · 3/4Seamstresses leave broken needles on their windowsills for the cat with the silver mouth.Read this folio → marks those who prey on the vulnerable. Each soul reflects part of Nera’s method and its cost. The final encounter cannot simply reveal which twin was right. Nera must admit that she endangered MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → by revealing the route, while still asking MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → to confess that the apprentice called back. She keeps a small lantern clasp MiraMiraFirst-generation championMira is Nera's estranged twin sister, the softer of the two.Read this biography → made when they were children. She plays because she wants her sister alive, the apprentice free, and the truth intact—even if achieving all three requires her to loosen the stitches she trusts most.

The unfinished question

The returned uniforms tell her what their wearers could not. Nera follows the warnings stitched into them toward one missing voice, even as the city tries to cut its secrets from her work.

The voice missing from her whispering coat is the one she most wants to find. Spindle WidowSpindle WidowC17 · 3 energy · 2/4Every widow in the Cinder Ward leaves a loose thread beneath her door.Read this folio → keeps vanished names; Mourning BobbinMourning BobbinC19 · 3 energy · 1/5Nera wound this bobbin with the final threads from a hundred funeral coats.Read this folio → tends those left behind; Hem-GoblinHem-GoblinC18 · 1 energy · 2/1The goblin who lives inside Nera's coat insists he is her business partner.Read this folio → steals what the city refuses to give. Their acts form a counter-archive Nera can wear into any courtroom.

Faction or circle

The Cinder Ward's seamwork circle

Pastime

Reading stories hidden in returned uniforms.

Ledger trivia

Her coat carries many voices but one has fallen silent.

How to play Nera

Hem the Blade: Reduce one enemy creature's attack by 1 until Nera's next turn.

Hem the Blade reduces one enemy creature's attack by one until her next turn. Use it to alter a particular trade, then defend with a creature that survives the reduced hit. An opponent with several attackers can stretch this single-target protection.

The four encounters

The settings recorded for this champion’s campaign chapter:

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The mending room. A returned uniform hangs above scattered needles and an untouched place at the workbench.

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The midnight spool loft. White threads run from a whispering coat to a bobbin that winds itself.

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The fitting alley. An old protective coat stretches between copper pins while something paces beneath the cloth.

NERA-04

The whispering workroom. A hundred loose threads converge on a coat beside the apprentice's empty chair.

Souls in this chapter

C17

Spindle WidowSpindle WidowC17 · 3 energy · 2/4Every widow in the Cinder Ward leaves a loose thread beneath her door.Read this folio →

Every widow in the Cinder Ward leaves a loose thread beneath her door. The Spindle Widow gathers them at night and weaves the names of the missing into her web. Soldiers sent to burn it found their sword arms gently bound to their sides. She released them at dawn, each wearing a newly mended cuff and the name of someone they had forgotten.

C18

Hem-GoblinHem-GoblinC18 · 1 energy · 2/1The goblin who lives inside Nera's coat insists he is her business partner.Read this folio →

The goblin who lives inside Nera's coat insists he is her business partner. He steals buttons from executioners, pockets from tax collectors and hems from anyone who steps on a beggar's blanket. At dawn he sells his findings back as repairs. Nera pretends not to notice that every coin finds its way into the shoes left outside the orphanage.

C19

Mourning BobbinMourning BobbinC19 · 3 energy · 1/5Nera wound this bobbin with the final threads from a hundred funeral coats.Read this folio →

Nera wound this bobbin with the final threads from a hundred funeral coats. Now it rolls toward anyone whose clothes are stained with fresh blood, stitching quietly until their breathing steadies. It never repairs its own cracked wooden body. When asked why, it unwinds a little farther, as though someone at the other end is still waiting to come home.

C20

Needlejaw CatNeedlejaw CatC20 · 4 energy · 3/4Seamstresses leave broken needles on their windowsills for the cat with the silver mouth.Read this folio →

Seamstresses leave broken needles on their windowsills for the cat with the silver mouth. It carries each one to a roof where the city's unwanted coats gather like sleeping birds. Anyone who steals from that nest wakes with their sleeve sewn to the bed. Anyone who hurts its keeper discovers that the first bite only marks where the second will land.