If you find the ribcage-shaped stones near the tidepools, turn around. The marsh doesn’t end there — it sinks. And he waits beneath, like a promise forgotten by time.
There’s a presence in the caverns that hums when you're not listening. It doesn’t speak, not with words. But the sound in your bones? That’s it trying to warn you.
They say there's a talking tree that moves through the bogs at night. It doesn't walk — it waits. If you hear it whisper your name... it's already too late.
There’s a rhythm in the air... a thrum like breath beneath skin. They say if you stand too long near the Shatterfen Pools, your heartbeat starts to match it — and that’s when he finds you.
"Do not mistake etiquette for weakness. I will have you undone with a single glance and a whispered name."
"Every city has a heartbeat — mine just listens for when it skips."
"Truth is just the prettiest lie you haven’t heard yet."
"The past is buried for a reason — which is precisely why I insist on digging it up."
"The gods speak softly in the presence of the dying — and I am their echo."
In the dripping heart of the Brackish Brineland’s oldest grove, where the canopy chokes out the sun, there lives a thing of twisted roots and cruel laughter.
Along the moonlit forest trails of the Verdant Weald, hunters speak of a flicker in the corner of the eye—a shimmer where something should be, then the sudden flash of claws.
Deep in the lightless heart of the Mangrove Marshlands, something stirs beneath the thick green water.