Tiresia Valeheart

Name (Etymology):

Tiresia — From the Mistborne root tirésh, meaning “woven path,” and the suffix -ia, denoting “one who bears.” A name often given to those born during veil-fog or lunar convergence.
Valeheart — From Mistborne dialects: vale (shrouded path) + heart (core or truth).

Combined Meaning: She who carries the woven path and knows the hidden center.

Details:

• Age: Late 50s (equivalent in Mistborne years)
• Gender: Female (She/Her)
• Race: Mistborne Elf
• Occupation: First Guide of Seven Mile Bottom, Interpreter of the Veil
• Region: Seven Mile Bottom, Wendmor
• Affiliation: The Far-Seers of Wendmor

Appearance

Tiresia’s presence is quiet but commanding. She wears layered robes of deep plum and midnight-blue, stitched with faint gold thread that glints like dew on spider silk. A silver-trimmed mask, crafted in the shape of folded leaves, covers her eyes — not for concealment, but as a sacred custom among oracles of her Mistborne lineage. Her copper hair is streaked with soft white strands, often braided with silk cords bearing tiny runes. Her hands, steady and practiced, move with deliberate grace as she traces the textures of the Veil.

Home

Tiresia lives in the Veil Tent, nestled near the edge of Seven Mile Bottom’s village square.

Background

Raised by the Silvermist Archive-Keepers, Tiresia was trained early in the art of veilcraft — a tradition rooted in texture, weight, and intuition rather than sight. Her lineage teaches that truth flows best when obscured from the eye and revealed instead through steady, attuned contact. In partnership with local craftspeople, she helped shape the Veil — a vast and evolving textile system that encodes lore, memory, and emotion in layered, tactile patterns.

The Veil has since become a communal artifact, passed between hands rather than gazes. Tiresia serves as its most skilled interpreter.

Skills

• Veil Mastery: Interprets layered inscriptions through touch, pressure, and fabric tension
• Guidance & Calibration: Assists travelers with preferences, learning pace, and dialogue style
• Insightful Lorekeeping: Catalogs memorylines and lost stories from both Wendmor and Mirror-World sources
• Empathic Mentorship: Offers gentle counsel without judgment — only reflection

Notable Belongings

• The Veil: A living document of Wendmor’s layered histories, woven from thread, ink, metalwork, and glass. Many have contributed to its texture — Nari, Enzo, Luna, and others.
• Serpentine Staff: A carved walking staff inscribed with interwoven spirals — not for balance, but to trace resonance in the earth and air

Reputation

Tiresia is widely respected, though not always quickly understood. She speaks softly, moves slowly, and listens as though every pause contains meaning. To some, she feels distant. To others, essential.

Children leave her tokens braided in string. Scholars bring her words they cannot decode. And when decisions feel too tangled to face, the village turns to her — not for answers, but for the kind of questions that stay with you.

Ongoing Project

Tiresia is expanding the Veil to include "weatherlines" — raised strands that shift in warmth, tension, or give. With Nari’s help, these lines may soon guide wanderers across terrain not by sight, but by feel. She has also begun recording unspoken words: breaths before confessions, silences between verses — encoded not in letters, but in rhythm and spacing.

Some say she’s preparing the Veil for a time when language won’t be enough.

Quote

“The path may twist, but your hands remember where it leads.”