Keeper Sage

"You want to know about the Scattering? Everyone does. Nobody has answers. Only fragments."

"The stone carvings in the ruins — they're not eroded. Not damaged. Just... untranslatable. As if the language itself forgot what it meant."

"The Old Ones don't speak. But if you sit near one long enough, you'll feel something. Not words. Recognition."

"Some Keepers say the drift is slowing. The islands are closer than they used to be. I've been counting. They're right."

"We left something behind. I can feel it in the stone, in the wood, in the way the sky bends at the edges. The islands are trying to give it back."

"If you have ears for it, there's a thread of work I'd ask of you. The island remembers louder near some places than others. I'd like a witness."