The nominal leader of the Council of Mages, an ancient elf who claims to understand the Unravelling and maneuvers constantly against rival tower-masters while hoarding the kingdom's most dangerous spell-fragments.
Meridian is older than living memory—some whisper she walked Duskward in its golden age. She speaks with certainty about matters the Council debates endlessly, which makes her either brilliantly insightful or dangerously deluded. The other tower-masters follow her orders, but only because no one else commands more respect (or more combat-mages).
She believes the Unravelling can be reversed if the proper components can be gathered from the Sunken Spire and the Shattered Resonance. This obsession drives her increasingly reckless decisions: the secret war with the Cartels over salvage rights, the kidnappings of talented young mages, the forbidden experiments with corrupted artifacts.
Even her allies wonder if she's lost her mind. But she holds the Council together through sheer force of personality, and no one wants to find out what happens if she breaks.