PERSONAE · THE VALE

Dural

aka the warden who quit, Warden Dural

The Undertow's last warden, who took the bar off the gaol-drain gate and walked out the same way the prisoners do — up through the dark toward the coin of daylight. He does not ask what is below, and he will not ask what you are.

Dural was a warden of House Vandahl's bluff gaol until the pay stopped and the conscience started. He was told to feed the forgotten and forget them himself; he managed the first part and could not manage the second. So he took the bar off the drain gate — 'consider it my notice handed in' — and started the slow climb out through the drowned drains, and there he still is, too honest to have kept the job and too tired to move fast. He is the warden who doesn't ask what's below: he knows the Silt Hands run the dry chambers, knows the House flushes more than water down here, and knows the thing that dens in the sump. He gives the living the only warning he has left — when the water goes still and cold, don't wait to find out, climb — and he means you no harm at all. 'I never saw you.'

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Korl

ROLE

former gaol warden, now drain-climber

LOCATION

The Undertow

Connected

House VandahlFACTION · The Undertow's last warden, until he took the bar of…The UndertowPLACE · He is still in the high galleries, slowly walking hi…The DrownlingCREATURE · He gives the living the only warning about the Drown…SelaCHARACTER · She is climbing out through the drain-gate the warde…A Warden's Drain-LedgerTEXT · The warden's own drain-ledger and his last written n…

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesKorl

roleformer gaol warden, now drain-climber

locationplace.the-undertow

affiliationsfaction.house-vandahl

disposition60

secretsHe took the bar off the drain gate himself — the gaol's one door out is open because he opened it, and the House does not know.

voice_notesDry, done, unafraid. A man who has already quit and is only walking it off. Warns you like it costs him nothing, because it doesn't anymore.

All Relationships (5)

member_of

→House Vandahl — The Undertow's last warden, until he took the bar off the gate and quit.

located_in

→The Undertow — He is still in the high galleries, slowly walking his own resignation out through the drains.

knows_origin_of

→The Drownling — He gives the living the only warning about the Drownling there is: when the water goes still and cold, climb.

aligned_with

←Sela — She is climbing out through the drain-gate the warden left open — two of the House's forgotten on the same escape.

authored

→A Warden's Drain-Ledger — The warden's own drain-ledger and his last written note under the House's memory-hole order.

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