The closer I get to the end, she had told Cas once, the more I find myself wanting to go back to the beginning.
-From The Song of the Marked
Casia‘s adoptive mother, and leader of the group of their mercenaries. Like Cas, she contracted the Fading Sickness but survived. Keeping her alive is Cas’s main goal at the beginning of Shadows and Crowns, and the reason she ends up working for the king-emperor.