The System
16 entries in the Crown of Teeth compendium.
The SystemThe cold, transactional harvest engine turned warm by Cael's subversion.The GardenersFormer anomalies who farm the Deeps as a cultivated ecosystem, reaping essence through evoThe StewardA proxy-class Gardener agent acting as field hand for the harvest, delivering messages andThe WinnowerThe Gardeners' first true agent, a Calamity-class warden that reaps strata until its core The GleanerThe second steward-class agent that waged open war against the Bound before its final destThe EldestThe first Gardener, Cael's mirror offering kindness before being severed and seated.MeridianA Measurer Gardener who hid Cael's anomaly and revealed the third road of contagion.The LoomThe cathedral of stolen light where all life is caught, kept, and hoarded.The RootThe harvest's engine at the bottom of the world where evolution draws and choice became laThe Reaping-PipeThe internal view of the essence pipeline guiding monsters toward slaughter.The Long HungerA nation-wide ability born from grief, uniting the Bound as a single predator organism by The BindingForbidden loyalty threads binding monsters to Cael, un-reapable by Gardeners.The ShareA Book 2 ability granting essence and traits to bound kin, lifting the entire warren.The SeverA Book 8 ability allowing Cael to cut harvest engine connections without consumption.The KeepingA craft severed from the loom that unfiles the Bound's dead and alters covenants.The Steward's ThreadThe map to the harvest's heart gained by Cael after absorbing the Winnower's core.
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