Dren Halwick

Detail	Value
Title	Whisper-Cell Inmate (Cell Seven)
Location	Veil Harbor, Cell Seven
Faction	None
Status	Alive (compromised)

Description

Forties, gaunt, with hollow cheeks and dark circles that never fade. Once a big man, now wasted. His eyes change, when he is himself they are brown and frightened, when the Other speaks they go flat and dark, like deep water. His hands shake constantly except during the Other’s hours, when they are perfectly still.

Dren was a fisherman from a coastal village who was pulled into the sea by a Black Tide and returned three days later unable to explain where he’d been. He is lucid approximately four hours per day. During those hours he is the most frightened man in the Reach, because he knows what speaks through him the rest of the time and he cannot stop it.

Roleplaying Notes

• When lucid: terrified, cooperative, desperate for help, speaks in rushed fragments
• When the Other speaks: calm, measured, unnervingly precise
• Wants to be free, to go home, to stop hearing the voice, none of which may be possible

GM Only

During the twenty hours when Dren is not lucid, something else looks out through his eyes and speaks with his mouth. It is responsive to questions asked in the room. Lira Ashvane has been conducting documented interviews with the entity. It has provided fragments of information about the Trench, the prison, and events happening deep below the sea. Some of it has proven accurate.

The entity is Serith, speaking through a mortal conduit. This means the prison’s integrity is far worse than anyone estimated. Ashvane suspects this but has not voiced it.