Soul harvester

A Soul harvester is one of the Wanderers. It released its core in some earlier Unsealing, and a heart demon moved into the empty foundation. It comes out of the Mist each Turning and serves in Umbra, the affinity of death and its aftermath.

It is not one of the creatures of Deopa, the Deep, but it works for them. Those creatures are shapes that belong to the Deep. Some arose from the stranded dead. Others, celestials among them, went down into the Deep at the Breaking. Their bargains consume people. Sealborn say the harvester reaps on their behalf and that its employer pays part of the harvest in its own people. So its service costs people as well as geld and mana, and all three rise as it grows.

It strikes with cold, hits hard, and grows stronger and harder to kill the longer it serves. In time, before battle, it lays a killing cold on one enemy company, selected by chance, and weakens that company's blows. Later it thins every company the enemy has, and the Deep's creatures in its own army grow stronger and hardier on what it takes. The card shows what each stage does.

When the pay stops, it leaves. Kill one, and its service ends for the Turning, but its soul goes on, and so does its kind.

Harvesters say the demon wants to reap enough to be let into the Deep as one of its own. Whether that would free the harvester or swallow it, no one knows, and no way of freeing one has been shown.

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