Rosewillow

Willow "Rosewillow" of Summerport is a mysterious woman and member of the Rosencircle. She first appears in the prologue of Fatherland, although it becomes clear only later on that she was involved in Patten's death. She appears to be in her early twenties, though being a First Warden, her real age could be different. Her motivations and goals are kept secret throughout the book, though she is after both the Quiet Tear and the Nakfèht to obey the Mastria of the Rosencircle.

Appearance and Personality
Willow is described as a young woman with long, dark chestnut hair and striking green eyes. She claims to come from Summerport and to be one of the simple people. She earns her silvers by sewing clothes and cleaning taverns but Patten of Summerport noticed that her demeanor looks almost noble.

Willow appears as a good person to most of the people she encounters, such as Patten, Old Martita, and Mawde of Silverholde. She is helpful and friendly, which makes it easy for her to mask her goals and intentions. Even as she witnesses the horrors Jascha perpetrated on her sister Rosaleah, Willow offers him help on two occasions. Neither vindictive nor resentful, Willow carries out the orders the Mastria of the Rosencircle gives her but at the same time, she doesn't act remorseful when such orders mean the death of others.

Early life
Willow was allegedly born in the South, in Summerport. She doesn't tell anyone her origins or who her family was, but being a member of the Rosencircle, she could have been raised in Wilderose. She seems particularly close to Rosaleah, another member of the Rosencircle, as she knows the woman's family and visits them in Silverholde.

Summerport
In Fatherland, Willow starts out as a woman who's helping Old Martita with her daily tasks. She is always in the company of Patten, a young man in Martita's care, and she's the one who suggests Sarkis of Silverholde go work at the Seven Galleys tavern in Summerport when Theliel Lionhelm brings the man to Martita's.

Willow lures Patten to his death on a summer day after a talk with the Mastria in Alatros the Red's Plaza. As she is looking for the Nakfèht bound to bring a potent artifact to the Rosencircle, Willow believes Patten could be the one and seduces him during a swim before bringing him to Wilderose, where the Rosencircle performs a ritual on him. She never returns to Summerport after that, and Sarkis and Martita believe her to be dead when the southern soldiers who found Patten's remains state that Patten was alone.

Silverholde
Willow appears in Silverholde sometime later, when Jascha arrives at Mawde's. She follows him around Danyell's Athenaeum and at the Temple of Phorbas, where Holy Captain Chadras recognizes her as a fay. While Jascha thinks she's after him because he could be her next Nakfèht, Willow doesn't confirm it. She tries to approach him on several occasions but one night, at the Shattered Ambry, where Jascha is watching Tecla and Theliel Lionhelm, she manages to talk to him. She tries to earn some sort of reaction from him by suggesting he was staring at the youngest Lionhelm but Jascha flings her against the wall outside of the tavern and exposes her as one of Rosencircle. She offers to show him what it means but Jascha leaves her in the mud.

When Rosaleah goes missing, Willow returns to the athenaeum where Jascha is waiting for her, though she doesn't know that. He pretends to be taking her up on her offer to "show him" and Willow goes to Aalart's forge where she and Jascha share a rather rough, physical encounter. Willow is unable to use her power on him as he hides his face from her, and when he tells her he knew what she was trying to do, Rosewillow spots the corpses of Aalart and Rosaleah nailed against the far wall. She understands that Jascha tortured Rosaleah for information and she tells him that she wasn't after him because she thought he was the Nakfèht but because Rosaleah recognized his face. Willow tells Jascha that he's the son of one of the previous members of the Rosencircle, a certain Rosaleen, which he denies completely. When faced with the scars marring Jascha's body and their connection to the Nakfèht rituals, Willow offers Jascha to meet the Mastria, which he refuses before he leaves her at the smith shop.

The Nakfèht
Willow last sees Jascha when he is on his way to Limemeadow and she presumably heads back to Wilderose. She tells him that she knows he's sent surveillants to find Rosaleah's body so that her mother could receive a Regency pension for the death of her daughter. Willow offers him to meet the Mastria again but Jascha views it as a trap.

Willow explains that the Nakfèht is someone who stole from the Rosencircle and that they bear the Quiet Tear the secret organization is after, therefore confirming what Jascha read at the athenaeum. He criticizes her for her stupidity when she tells him he's no target of the Rosencircle and for chasing "cute jewelry." They part ways at that moment, and Rosewillow never appears in Fatherland again.

Chaos vision
Willow kills Patten using an ability that belongs to Tecla, though she doesn't see anything as Patten isn't the Nakfèht she is looking for. Since she doesn't need a jewel to activate this power, Willow most likely received it from the Rosencircle.

Portal creation
How Willow brings Patten to Wilderose is left unsaid in Fatherland, which could mean that her being a First Warden might grant her other powers, such as portal creation or teleportation. Even as she meets Jascha on the Red Road, Jascha didn't see where she came from when she appears before him.

Glamour
Though Martita has knowledge on the Rosencircle, she didn't seem to recognize Willow as a First Warden or fay, which could mean that Willow is wearing a glamour of sorts and that her described appearance is just a mask. Only Holy Captain Chadras recognized her but the way he spoke to Jascha suggested he met her before because he was the one to bring Jascha's mother "back in the arms of the Oracle."