Aveline grew up believing she was not Gifted and held no Craft. Raised in the Outskirts of Vireth by her Ironbound mother, Rowena, she has lived on the edge of poverty. Because of Rowena's work in the gardens, Aveline has never gone hungry, but she has watched those around her do so for years. Her father is listed as Ian Blackmere, someone Rowena was quite close to prior to his death fifteen years before the story begins.
Aveline is physically unremarkable, considered neither pretty nor ugly. Her build is average, and she has no exceptional strength, skill, or intelligence. Her real talent is calculating risk through information. She is careful and stoic, deeply internal, and unlikely to display emotion in front of others.
Her Gift, Timecraft, manifests early in the story, setting off a chain of events that will cause her to confront the realities of the world she lives in.
