Yerba

Yerba, also called the Shadow, is a barkor or shadowman who operates out of a small town in the South Quarter. Her village, Swamp's End, is entirely devoted to her, whether by force, or lack of will. She is described as having skin the color of teak, with large, almond shaped eyes of brown so light it looked almost like birch. She is waifish and beautiful, and incredibly dangerous.

Yerba was once an asogwe of the Small Servents, but temptations of power became too much for her to handle. She started trading in hexes and destructive spells against others and once killed a woman without knowing her name. She threw herself in the Bayou in an suicide attempted, but surfaced in the small village of Swamp's End instead, where she was nursed back to health only to turn on its residents.

Yerba taught Remi's parents everything they knew and abandoned them when they were most in need.