NPCs
Elec Aune-Vesk
The Silenced Cartographer
A cartographer of two centuries past who attempted the same work Vessa Thrin later pursued, and was silenced for it. His name surfaces only in fragments — a …
Klep Marish
The Backflow Ghost of Sparkmire
A drowned Sparkmire inventor whose dying breath still echoes in the canals. Trapped in the third canal's overflow chamber, his distant, delayed voice can be heard — by …
Named Drowned Settlers of Vel Annis
Grief-Preserved Echoes of the Sunken Settlement
Recovered from the Archive of Vel Annis, these are four of the settlement's drowned: Orvyn Cael, Maren Thisse, Duvek Lorn, and Callind Rue. They left no biographies — …
Sera Vant
The Archivist of Vel Annis
Sera Vant was the archivist of Vel Annis, the pre-Concord settlement now sunk beneath the bay. Her name survives among the settlement's records, tied to the clay tablets …
The Abbot (Maker of the Pale)
The unseen hand behind the world
A name that surfaces only in the deepest riddles and the oldest margins — a maker, spoken of as a dying man in some 'before' that came prior …
Underclerk Tomik Reeve
The Vanished Travel-Papers Clerk
The Codex Bastion underclerk who stamped Vessa Thrin's travel papers before her journey. He has since gone missing, and no one at the Bastion will say what became …
Warden Therro's Echo
Lingering Impression of a Vanished Warden
The fractured spiritual impression of a warden who vanished on the ridge, manifesting in the chasm's colder reaches. Distressed but not hostile, it replays its final moments in …