Ghaldrin Lowchant – Funerary Warden
“The dead do not ask to be remembered. The living require it.”
Name: Ghaldrin Lowchant
Race: Dwarf
Role/Class: Funerary Warden
Appearance: Ghaldrin Lowchant is a broad, heavy-set dwarf with a presence that settles a space the moment he enters it. His beard is long, iron-gray, and braided into thick cords weighted with small lantern tokens made of bone and smoked glass. Each token bears a simple rune marking a completed rite.
His skin is ashen and weathered, stained darker at the hands and forearms from years of handling lantern oil and marsh-soot. His eyes are deep-set and steady, rarely blinking, and his voice—when he speaks—is low enough to be felt in the chest rather than heard clearly.
He wears layered ceremonial leathers beneath a heavy cloak of treated canvas, fire-resistant and stitched with mourning sigils. At his belt hang oil flasks, wick-shears, and a compact iron censer. He carries no obvious weapon—only a thick iron lantern staff capped with a hooded flame.
Backstory
Ghaldrin came to the Brackish Brinelands decades ago as part of a stonewright expedition meant to establish permanent markers along the marsh trade routes. When flooding destroyed the project and claimed several lives, the survivors fled.
Ghaldrin stayed.
He oversaw the burning of the bodies, the floating of lanterns, and the recording of names when no one else would. Over time, settlements began asking him to perform rites—not just for dwarves, but for anyone lost to the wetlands. He adapted ancient dwarven funerary customs to the realities of water, fire, and absence.
Ghaldrin believes that the marsh consumes bodies but not names. His role is to ensure memory is anchored before the tide takes it.
