Roamers

The relics of Julian Roamer.

****R******oamers** are wanderers who often have special knowledge or powers. Though most are, they are not necessarily good. They all have very long lives.

## History

### *Bluecrowne*

Trigemine arrived, using his kairos mechanism, on the outskirts of Nagspeake, because it was surprising to see a roamer appear suddenly. He and Blister set out to find a conflagrationeer, wondering about what difficulties it would entail, since he might not even know about the roaming world. Trigemine was also to get a knife from the Ironmonger, who was, he noted, special in the small roaming world. Trigemine and Blister speculated about Jack Hellcoal and how not many roamers knew the truth. Trigemine worried that if he and Blister failed in their assignment, Jack would go after them to warn the rest of the roaming world.

Trigemine noted that in the future, the Ironmonger would leave the roaming world, but it wasn't supposed to happen yet. When they found out that Xiaoming wasn't human, they supposed that she was like them and didn't really walk time normally, only was much more powerful, although they didn't know much about Chinese roamers. Jonas Forgeron warned Lucy Bluecrowne of the dangers of Trigemine, how he was not only a sutler but a roaming-world sutler, which was infinitely worse. Jianming Cerrajero later commented on all the rules that bound roamers.

### *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*

Madame Grisaille told a story concerning a roamer-hero who was secretly buried in Pantin's yard. All roamers, she said, were otherworldly, even though some were good and some bad and some were very involved and some not, and some were human while others weren't. One day, Madame Grisaille said, a thief came to Pantin's house, and being a roamer himself, he recognized the grave. Wanting the box buried with the hero, he came back to try to dig him up, but was stopped by the old iron lifting the hero's bones. The hero scared the thief away, then seemed to possess his own body again, and with the old iron's help, walked away.

Al Tesserian told a story of a Ferryman on the river Skidwrack, named Isaac Knickpointe, who was a roamer. He would challenge roamers to harder riddles for passage. Reever later compared High Walkers to roamers. Masseter told a story about a boy called Foulk. When Foulk met Morvengarde, Morvengarde mentioned the Roaming World; and called Foulk a young roamer, and a special one too. Morvengarde himself was a roamer, he said. Foulk became fascinated with the Roaming World, and eventually ended up working for Morvengarde. At the end of the tale, Masseter commented on how many roamers came to the Blue Vein Tavern and how that affect Mr. and Mrs. Haypotten.

### *Greenglass House*

When Milo suggested that his Odd Trails character be able to listen to the house, do tracker stuff, for instance, know if they were being followed. Meddy suggested that his character could be a roamer, who would know that sort of thing from his travels.

Mrs. Hereward told a story, Only a Fool Scoffs at Destiny, which was the origin story of Julian Roamer. Georgie interrupted the story to ask if Julian Roamer was one of the roamers, and explained what roamers are to Milo. At the end of the story, Mrs. Hereward explained that Julian had been the first of the roamers, and the roads he paved with his special shoes became the most sacred roads of the roaming world.

Milo discovered that he'd found a relic of Julian Roamer in his attic, and gifted it to Mrs. Hereward. The lantern's flame burned blue, and Mrs. Hereward commented that unearthly fire always burned blue in roamer tales.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

When Mr. Hakelbarend told a tale about Whit Gammerbund, he mentioned a road that led to the Liberty, and Lucky added that the road was very old and was said to be one of the roamer paths. Milo and Meddy recalled the stories of roamers that they'd heard, from Odd Trails, and the previous year, the story of Julian Roamer.

## Known Roamers

* Alphonsus Lung
* Al Tesserian
* Aniline Deacon
* Blaise Forel
* Cassiterides Bone
* Conflagrationeers
* Confraternity of Yankee Peddlers
* Deacon and Morvengarde
* Ferryman
* Foulk Trigemine
* Frost
* Gregory Sangwin
* Grisaille
* Hale
* Haypotten
* Headcutters
* Hollow-ware man
* High Walkers
* Ignis Blister
* Isaac Knickpointe
* Jacinda
* Jack Hellcoal
* Jessamy Butcher
* Julian Roamer
* Liao Bluecrowne
* Lucy Bluecrowne
* Maisie Cerrajero
* Marcus Haypotten
* Morvengarde
* Negret Colophon
* Octavian Deacon
* Pantin
* Petronella
* Phineas Amalgam
* Reever Colophon
* Seleucia Deacon
* Sorcha
* Simon Coffrett
* Sullivan
* The scavenger
* Xiaoming