Shard-Haunt

A lesser Mender-built creature that gathers where the relic-touched barrow draws them — fragments of a failed attempt at succession, drawn to places of power like moths to a flame.

It is not native to the world; something built it to be. Where the relic's reach is strongest the shard-haunts thicken, and the barrow rings clearest of all. The Temple names them proof the relic must be sanctified; the tribes name them proof it must be left alone. Both may be right — both may simply be reading the same warning written in a bestiary the Vyr left behind.