NPCs

📍 The Silenced Grove

The oldest Keeper, still walking the road alone. Corruption scales creep upward from her hem. Faint golden keeper-light barely visible beneath.

The source of all corruption in Talestria — not by malice, but by abandonment. A Keeper forgotten by the world she swore to protect.

“She was trying to remember my name.”

📍 The Keeper Roads

Radiant golden robes. Keeper-light blazing. Wise, patient, ancient. The Storystreams blaze bright when she remembers her name.

When the heroes speak her name and return her memories, liberation comes. The Keeper Roads glow again. It is not a road meant to be walked alone.

“Vaelindra.”

📍 Following the corruption trail

Grey-muzzled, slow-moving, guilt-ridden. Speaks carefully. Deflects questions about the past until he can carry it no longer.

Fav: Map satchel

A junior Keeper when the council voted to retreat. He voted against it and lost. Has spent a century following the corruption he failed to prevent.

“We told ourselves we were protecting the center. There was only her. And we left her there.”