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Trap-Goblin
Creature Trap-Goblin The goblin that builds the trap the rest of the warren eats by — small, patient, and the only beast that considers a spring-loaded jaw a form of art.
Vein-Reader Dwarf
Creature Vein-Reader Dwarf An iron-skinned deep-dwelling dwarf of the delve who reads the deep-veins by the dark and the sound of the stone, the clan's patient, remembering, and most careful eye.
Stormdrinker Lightning Goblin
Creature Stormdrinker Lightning Goblin A charged, reckless goblin of the crystal spires who drinks the storm through the spires' pale blue light and meters the sky like a well.
Uaellaen
Character Uaellaen Dark elf archmage, god-slayer, former Remedy member, founder of The Forgotten, and narrator of this universe's story.
True-Flight Angel
Creature True-Flight Angel The tall, narrow, slightly-too-clean line of the highest plane, with a pair of true wings folded at the back in a soft ivory to pale gold range and a pair of large, clear pale gold eyes. Its wings are not a tool but a statement, and the statement is the flight.
Uuaellaen
Character Uuaellaen Uaellaen's actual biological brother — a dark elf of immense power. High-level cleric, Archon, and High Priest.
Tigole
Character Tigole Halfling rogue, leader of Legacy of Steel, rival guild to Remedy, and Uaellaen's mentor in the icy tundras.
Superior-Darkness Dark Elf
Creature Superior-Darkness Dark Elf The elven line in the deep, tall and narrow-waisted, with skin the deep violet to a near-black and a network of fine, pale violet veins at the temples. It is at home in the dark the way the surface is at home in the light, and the dark never burns it.
Stonewrought
Dragon Stonewrought An ancient Earth Dragon, master of mountains and tectonic forces.
Sound-Reader Shadow Goblin
Creature Sound-Reader Shadow Goblin A nearly-blind goblin of the sunless sinkhole who reads the dark by sound and shadow and treats light as noise.
Leech Folk
Race Leech Folk Parasitic marsh folk of the blood pits. They trade in blood, always, and they consider the ledger a promise the pit keeps.
Solathis, the Dawnfather
Deity Solathis, the Dawnfather God of dawn, light, and healing. Every morning is his signature on the world.
Shadowveil
Dragon Shadowveil An ancient Dark Dragon, master of darkness and shadow magic.
Slimes
Race Slimes Single-cell acid wanderers of the dripping cavern. They drift, they absorb, they split — and they consider the drip the only honest conversation.
Selkies
Race Selkies Seal-folk of the cold coast. A stolen skin is a stolen life, and they consider the shore a promise the sea keeps for them.
Rumzuck Umbatsch
Character Rumzuck Umbatsch High-level ogre warrior, Uaellaen's brother, and the shield of the Remedy guild.
Rat Men
Race Rat Men Clever, fast-breeding scavengers of the undercities. Despised by most races, underestimated by all of them.
Roost-Sense Cockatrice
Creature Roost-Sense Cockatrice A crested, serpent-tailed fowl of the bare cliff roost who senses the roost and keeps the hundred-egg nest, the roost's territorial, aggressive, and most certain hiss.
Ring-Tender Shadow Goblin
Creature Ring-Tender Shadow Goblin A nearly-blind goblin of the sunless sinkhole who tends the pale ring-fungus and keeps the hollow's slow light from guttering out.
Pool-Sense Lizard Man
Creature Pool-Sense Lizard Man A scaled, amphibious patient reptilian of the marshes and river deltas who feels the pool-sense and waits for everything, the delta's clannish, territorial, and most certain wait.
Pressure-Sense Deep One
Creature Pressure-Sense Deep One A pale, gill-bellied deep-kin of the pressure vaults who senses the pressure and keeps the low vaults, the vault's clannish, shy, and most certain pull.
Revenants
Race Revenants Oath-bound, unyielding dead of the vigil. They do not rest, they do not forget, and they consider the oath a promise the vigil keeps.
Kobolds
Race Kobolds Small, furnace-scarred dragon-worshipping tinkerers of the gem-mine — the only race that considers a dragon a landlord worth pleasing.
Ogres
Race Ogres Proud warrior tribes of the high fangs — strength, honor, and a refusal to back down that has nothing to do with muscle.

By Mark

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