Character
Viviane Loubreton
Offered to the Partage—and returned
Ariane's sister. She was staying at the family residence in Vlad when her uncle Varnois poisoned the household, killed the guards, and carried her to the hidden coastal temple.
There, dressed in a white tunic and laid across the altar, she was offered to the Partage. Water entered through her mouth and emerged red, carrying her mana to Archon and her uncle. Charlie Stoneheart interrupted the extraction by raising a barrier around her, not himself.
She survived. She describes it as cold—terribly cold—as though someone had emptied the flame from within her. The people of the Ark endure that feeling every day.
She was the first member of her family to say the temple should be destroyed.