
PERSONAE · THE NORTHERN REACH
Essin the Digger
A Listening College field researcher camped at Hollow-Pines who cannot swim and is absolutely certain about the pillar under the chapel flood.
Essin has been writing up the Drowned Chapel's architectural profile for six weeks, working from the surface measurements and a single terrifying dive he made last autumn that nearly killed him and confirmed the pillar. He is certain about the pillar the way researchers are certain about things they almost died for. He has hired three people to do the actual dive; all three declined after seeing the water. He is polite, methodical, and runs out of patience entirely when people suggest the pillar might not be there.
KIND
mortal
SPECIES
Human
ROLE
Field researcher, Listening College
LOCATION
Hollow-Pines Camp
Connected
Voices & Sounds
Game Data (1)
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data/content/npcs.json
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
located_in
- →Hollow-Pines Camp — Essin is camped at Hollow-Pines, working up his chapel survey notes and looking for someone willing to dive the flood.
- →The Drowned Chapel of Vael — Essin's entire current work centers on the Drowned Chapel; he has made one failed dive and is trying to hire a second.
member_of
- →The Far College — Essin is a field researcher on a College commission to document Imperium architectural sites in the Northern Reach.
references
- ←quest.what-the-bog-keeps (unresolved) — Essin gives the quest and provides the dive intelligence; his certainty about the pillar is the player's best evidence.
- →The Vael Pillar — Essin made one harrowing dive that confirmed the pillar's existence; he is the only living person who has seen it.
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