Current Role: Editor-in-Chief
Publication: The Citadel Voice
Home: Lindral
Race: Human
Marital Status: Married to Calbrae Holt, with three children (Benedict, Alisende, Sebastienne)
Quote most likely to precede indignation:
“In my day, such things were unthinkable.”
“Let us not confuse sentiment with sense.”
Editor-in-Chief. Social conservative. Iron spine in lace cuffs.
Merevine Holt presides over The Citadel Voice with the exacting poise of someone who has never once been late — and finds the concept distasteful. Her editorials are polished to brilliance and bite, drawing readers from Lindral’s most polished parlours to the benches of city governance. She writes not to charm, but to command.
Tall and angular, with an upturned nose and a wardrobe heavy with high collars and lace, Merevine embodies the refined austerity she champions. A human of noble descent — or so she claims, though no one has found a family crest — she speaks of “the proper order” with a reverence that borders on sacred.
She is married to Calbrae Holt, a respected city planner and architectural savant. Publicly, theirs is a model marriage: two brilliant women, united in purpose, with three grown children — Benedict, Alisende, and Sebastienne. Privately, the union has worn thin. The warmth has long since cooled into polite habit, and while Alisende plays the dutiful daughter and Benedict remains stiffly loyal, their youngest, Sebastienne, has severed ties and left for a more radical life.
Merevine does not speak of her youngest child.
Nor, for that matter, does she speak of love. If there was ever romance, it is buried deep beneath decades of expectation and carefully preserved image. She does not permit herself such indulgences — and finds them suspicious in others.
To her credit, she believes every word she writes. And that, perhaps, is what makes her dangerous.
Known for:
- Lacy gloves and acid critiques
- A signature scowl that can silence a room
- Never once being caught in rain
- Her signature editorials on “Decline,” “Decorum,” and “The Delicate Fabric of Society”
