Vihn Nem

Appearance
An unusually tall woman with glowing red eyes and antlers sprouting from her forehead.

Background
Claims to be arcanic by way of the hind queen. Royal Engineer of Pontus. In reality, Vihn Nem is the disguise of an Ancient, perhaps the hind queen herself. One of professor Tam Tam's lectures describes: "one of the Ancients, a changeling trickster who disguised herself to live among mortals and Arcanics." Tam Tam blames this Ancient for spreading the story of Zinn's romance with the Shaman-Empress and starting the cult of the Old Gods. That this trickster is probably Vihn Nem is also hinted when in chapter seventeen Zinn calls Vihn Nem "trickster" and Vihn Nem mentions that Zinn ought to remember how to repair the Shaman-Empresses' inventions even better than she does.