Lore
24 entries in the Crown of Teeth compendium.
CaelA human-slime anomaly who rejects appetite, builds a nation of choice, and breaks the harvGrixCael's first Bound: a scavenger scout, blade, and conscience who survives every conflict.ThreshThe wounded beast who became the nation's wall, sacrificing itself to save a free-born.BurlA blind, gentle burrower who became the living door to the Loom.OrrAncient stone-shaper lieutenant who shaped the Marrow and died holding Dawnhold's breach.GrustOrr's apprentice, stone-shaper of Book 11, and the bridge that saved the host.CoilThe serpentine founder of the larder-discipline and conscience of the Bound.SkarnThe Warmreach's Beast-grade tyrant who refused death, becoming the Bound's mightiest earlyKarthThe dark mirror of Cael, a [Beast]-grade king who chose to be Bound.VrayeFrom celebrated delver-hero to ally, she dies on the right side of the only war that matteIsult VaneFrom broken measurer on Cairnhold ramparts to seated leader of the Recusants teaching unitThe GardenersHigher powers who farm the Deeps, reaping essence from monster evolution and slaughter.The EldestThe first Gardener, Cael's mirror who survives hope after being severed.MeridianA Measurer Gardener who discovered the third road and named contagion of consent.The WinnowerThe Gardeners' first true agent and Calamity-class warden that reaps strata clean, leavingThe GleanerThe second steward-class agent who waged open war and named the Wellhead before destructioThe StewardA courtesy-shaped proxy of the Gardeners, revealed in paperwork and killed by Vosk.The BoundMonsters who choose binding over devouring, evolving from a Warren into a free people.The MarrowThe Bound's deep-city stronghold, a layered heart of warm water and brood-galleries.DawnholdThe first monster city raised in the sun, built over the Gullet on Cairnhold's flank.The LoomThe harvest's engine at the world's bottom, a cathedral of stolen light hoarding every looThe SystemA rigged interface that rewards killing, subverted by Cael and repurposed for binding.The RecusantsHuman faction allied with Bound against Empire after Isult Vane reveals harvest truth.CormPatient armored Bound who became Cradle warden and paid the founding blood-price for human
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