Glassback Stag
A shy northern grazer whose translucent antler tips reveal seasonal mineral deposits.
The antler tips gather minerals from winter feeding and appear to glow when low sun passes through them. Fishers follow the herd to find safe ice, but the animals seek food rather than human safety. Songs confuse the stag with a shape beneath Lake Aranea; naturalists have not established that the two are related.
Its role in the current crisis connects ordinary work to the larger dispute over who benefits, who pays and who is allowed to describe what happened.
A northern freshwater archive whose layers of ice record missing seasons.
A coastal tool-using animal that opens shellfish on stones cached in reed beds.
Aranestel’s combined escort and rescue fleet, divided over its own history.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Sena marks ropes with colored threads identifying the crews who made them.