Siuva of the Last Drip — Memorial Waxworker
“Wax remembers the heat of a life. I listen to it cool.”
Name: Siuva of the Last Drip
Race: Human
Role: : Memorial waxworker, funerary artisan
Appearance: Siuva is reed-slim, early fifties, with tide-browned skin and hair bound in a linen wrap peppered with wax flecks. A smoke-gray shawl protects a work smock streaked in ochres and pale tallow. Her fingers are burn-scarred and steady; a brass ladle, bone-handled wick awl, and a little reed fan hang from her belt. Her eyes carry a lamplight gentleness—kind, but not evasive.
Backstory
Born in a stilt-house on Marshlight Town’s east canal, Siuva learned to render marsh tallow, blend reed pollen wax, and set vigil-lights that don’t sputter in wet air. When her partner vanished in the Brinelands, she poured a memorial effigy… and it would not melt. That taught her the Last Drip: sometimes the wax refuses to finish for a life not truly gone. She became the town’s memorial waxworker—crafting effigies to seat at wakes, setting vigil tapers for canal patrols, and mediating hauntings before they swell into panic. Locals bring her last letters, lockets, and a cup of the home water to “teach the wax” a life’s warmth.
