Null-WalkerCharacter
The Null-Walker is an entity referenced by the Peakwalker Yenna as something that comes when a crystal turns thrice, suggesting it is either summoned or triggered by a specific event. It is capable of speech, and Yenna implies it is something that was once suspended by choice but may walk among the living again by necessity. Little else is known.
Where it appears (24 mentions in 1 book)
Found Journal of a Traveler · 24 mentions Read the book →
- ¶19Peakwalker Yenna: "The Null-Walker comes when the crystal turns thrice. Count the rotations, stranger, and know that what was suspended by choice may soon walk among us by necessity."
- ¶27Null-Walker: "How long."
- ¶33…ystal pulsed once, long and slow, the way a breathing thing breathes when it is deciding. Then the Null-Walker's voice came again, closer now by some increment that could be felt but not measured, as th…
- ¶34Null-Walker: "Four hundred and twelve. Then the Deepmost Markets still hold their commerce in the dark, and the Singing Stones of Vorthak are either still singing or long since silent, and I…
- ¶38Then the Null-Walker spoke again, and this time the voice had changed in some quality that was difficult to name precisely, as a stone changes when it is lifted from cold water and held long enough to…
- ¶39Null-Walker: "Then I have missed the Stones. I had thought, in the first Cycle of suspension, that I would descend and hear them one final time. I had thought that through the second Cycle as…
- ¶42The Null-Walker's voice descended again before any among them could draw breath to speak. It came at the same increment of closeness as before, that same unmeasurable narrowing of distance, and the…
- ¶43Null-Walker: "Tell me what stands now where the river-city of Anther Vel once stood, at the base of these peaks. I built a record there, pressed into the stone of its lowest vault, and I woul…
- ¶49Null-Walker: "Then the damp has had four hundred Cycles and seven Spanths to do what damp does to pressed stone, and I will learn the extent of that damage when I stand before the vault wall…
- ¶50The apprentice Peakwalker, whose hand had not left the sternum since the Null-Walker's first utterances, took one step backward without appearing to choose it, boot heel catching against the ed…
- ¶54…il the last translucent shell fell away and was gone before it reached the stone beneath. The Null-Walker stood upon the mountainside in robes that had, until four Lumends prior, been billowing i…
- ¶55The Null-Walker's face, visible now without the crystal's refracting intermediary, was the face of someone for whom four hundred Cycles of suspension had done a work that could not be named simply…
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