the Presiding Justice
A robed and wigged figure of the bench, entirely certain of its jurisdiction, one hand raised to rule.
Bestiary
Everything the game knows, written down: commands and systems, the places in the world, and what there is to do in them.
the Fruiting Body
A vast fungal fruiting body, the one deliberate shape in a blind organism, split open and venting spores.
Watch-Captain Ordrun
A watch-captain frozen upright at his post, rimed cloak and helm, ice grown thick along the one shoulder he has leaned into the wind…
the Orchardist
A burnt orchard-keeper of charred wood and old bark, pruning hook in hand, bringing in the one crop a year.
the Factor
A wolf-headed ledger-keeper of the sunless market in scale armour, small spectacles on the muzzle, an open book held at exactly the correct angle…
the Thing Beneath the Calving
A vast head and one shoulder heaving up through shattered pack ice, the rest of it still under and only suggested, one enormous eye…
the Bridgemaster
A stone-dusted mason-lord with span-rule and plumb-line, refusing to see that the bridge is broken.
the Slow Bloom
A crystalline growth that has copied the shapes of everything that walked in, and copied them badly.
Fungal
A fungal walker, cap and gills over a body of bark and mycelium, spores drifting from beneath.
Hag
A bent hag in layered rags, fingers too long for the hands, hair hanging over a deeply lined face.