Volume III · The People
Notable Figures
Those whose names recur in council records, traveller’s tales, and the quieter margins of Diregulf’s history.
Aurelius Alabast
The Archivist · Warden of Diregulf · Son of Lux
A Radiant of divine lineage stretching back fourteen centuries — scholar, counsellor, and keeper of truths that others have long forgotten.
Gretchenwald
The Wandering Hermit · Older Than the Fracture · Survivor of the Fracture
A Deepkin of impossible age who predates the Fracture Cataclysm itself — wandering hermit, living paradox, and the only being in Diregulf who confuses himself more thoroughly than he confuses everyone else.
Rhizorot Mycelorrum
The Grandfather of Spores
The oldest known Sporeling and one of the oldest living beings known to the peoples of the modern age — a towering elder whose roots have endured longer than memory.
Dontyr Sintar
The Severed · Instrument of the Last Hour · He Who Locked the Clock
The greatest chronomancer ever known — the mortal anchor who stood beside Aiona in the Great Severance, surrendering his future so that history might keep one. What remained is no longer entirely human.
The Sole Returned
The Last Witness of the Deep · Survivor of the Ninth Gate Expedition · Name Withheld
The only member of any lower Deep Routes expedition to return alive — bearer of a fractured testimony of an Ancient City, dormant Wardens, and a recurring term the Wardens will not speak aloud.