the Librarian
A librarian of the unwritten, lamp lowered, closing the aisles behind it as it comes.
Bestiary
Everything the game knows, written down: commands and systems, the places in the world, and what there is to do in them.
the Fordkeeper
A keeper robed in river-grey, barefoot on wet stone, old past any guessing.
the Keeper at the Door
A courteous doorkeeper filling a doorway's exact width, hands folded, a ring of keys at the belt that no longer opens anything.
the Gate-Captain
A gate-captain in a frost-welded harness, body squared away from you and the head turned back over one shoulder, spear grounded with both hands…
the Storm Tyrant
A thunderhead given a will, a dragging weather-front with lightning stitched through its mass.
the Hollow King
A crowned suit of plate with nothing inside it but cold and grievance, standing straighter than a man could.
the Abyssal Maw
A lightless-deep horror all jaw and lamp-light, come up where the water is shallow enough to hunt.
the Obsidian Wyrm
A dragon of cooled volcanic glass, its plates cracking and reknitting as it moves.
the Miller
A drowned miller in a sodden leather apron, grey and waterlogged, wet hair hanging over his face, his legs lost in the water he…
the Ninth Thousand
A vault-thing standing exactly where it was shelved, upright inside a rack of iron bands, nine thousand and one stamped across the plate on…