Qwess

## **Qwess, The Shaman of the Shipwrecked**

A grotesque parody of his former well build and handsome form, Qwess is now a crooked, lumbering husk. His appears as almost corpse-like, being heavily malnutritioned over the years he spend on the island and various diseases he survived. His right arm and left leg were both broken at some point and haven’t healed properly, leaving them malformed. His face is hidden under his long oily green hair from under which only one eye is visible. Even after all the time on the Isle he still retained bits of his humanity and his passion of cooking, spending most of the time on preparing meals from every possible edible thing he has access to. He appears friendly to any shipwrecked survivors that find their way to the island, offering them food and directions.

Despite looking (and smelling) like a corpse, Qwess is empowered by the kraken blood and has the blessing of The Kraken King itself. His transformation into an abyssborn was not completed (unlike Anser), but he still has the basic attributes of the creatures of The Abyss like ability to breathe underwater and being able to quickly regenerate any wounds received.

## **Story**

DAY 1

My name is Qwess Zifem, I’m 37 years old. My wife Kannan and our son Fel live on Satchel Alley 78 in Derumi, and I want this notebook to be delivered to them if it’s ever found. I was the cook on the Deep Blue cruise ship, which has been attacked by a kraken, forcing us further and further to the west, into the open sea, to avoid the monster. In the end, the hull was damaged beyond repair by this accursed monster of the abyss and we would all die if not for an island found in the middle of nowhere. We managed to make it to the shore. I’ve decided to write this journal, just in case we are ever rescued. For now, it’s total chaos and panic, on top of that it’s raining. Just the way I wanted to die.

DAY 2

Today at the dawn we salvaged what we could from the ship, including tools, supplies and even some furniture. The captain, Keln Oriphei, ordered to set a temporary encampment on the treeline next to the shore and forbid anyone from straying too far. That’s understandable – bloodslithers are common for these small islands between the mainland and the worm’s desert land, I would like to not see any of these red beasts any time again. I’ve been also making meals for the crew and the passengers. There is 12 of us crewmates, me and Keln included, and 28 passengers – 40 in total. Various folks is that. We’ve got the spoiled Seran brats who wanted the vacation of their lifetime only to spend it on an island in the middle of nowhere, some Satran science guys, a mage who’s been trying to send a message to the mainland all day, and yeah, some worms. They keep to themselves, hissing at each other and pretending it’s their language.

DAY 3

It’s been raining again. As soon as the storm ended, Keln gathered sone volunteers to take an expedition into the forest to search the area and get the general idea what are we dealing with. I wanted to go with them, but NO he said. Guess, as the only guy who knows how to cook I’m too important to risk my life, go figure. They came back after few hour, and apparently there are some buildings here, some ruins as they described. Fun trip it seems, meanwhile I had to explain to some fucking spoiled whore that she won’t get more stew, and that I don’t give a fuck who her father is in Seru. The only good thing was that I got to talk with the mage guy, his name is Sanac. I’ve helped him to carry out his chest from the ship, he says he might be able to message the mainland if he constructs his thing. I’ve got no idea how it works and honestly, I don’t care to learn.

DAY 4

Shit has finally hit the deck. 2 of the rich kids vanished during the night, despite us from the crew taking watch. No one knows when, no one knows why, and it’s been FUCKING RAINING AGAIN! For fuck’s sake, if I’m ever going to escape from this island, I might move to the worm land, I’ve heard it never rains there. Speaking of worms, people started to get suspicious of them. There is 5 of them, but only 3 can speak Seran. Keln ordered a search party, Mef the first mate and some volunteers are supposed to go to the forest again tomorrow, and STILL I am not allowed to go. I’m so annoyed by these Seran pricks that I just gathered some random shit from the area to see what I can make out of it, mostly fruits. Have I mentioned so far, that none of these rich pieces of shit moved their asses during the first expedition? None of them did not. They won’t even go to seek their own. I don’t know who I dislike more, them or the worms.

DAY 5

I’ve overheard what Keln and Sanac were talking about. They did some math, and it seems like this island is not on the map. They haven’t announced it to the others yet, I can see why. If it’s not on the map, it means nobody was here before, and if nobody was here before it means we have no idea what we can find here, which brings a question. If they weren’t lying, and there are some ruins in the forest… then who the fuck has build them? I felt that there is something wrong with this place since we crashed here, but I’ve never really had time to think about it. Also, I brushed it off before, but I’ve been having weird dreams since we got here, about standing on the rocky edge over a pitch-black chasm, but there is something down there. The thing is, I almost never had any dreams. This is just weird.

DAY 6

The search party came back very late yesterday and I was too tired to write anything. They haven’t found a single trace of the missing kids. Nothing, not even a piece of their clothing. I can’t sit here anymore, just cooking and writing about what annoys me, because sooner or later I will end describing EVERYTHING! The whining kids, the worms, the constantly wet sand, constant rain, everything. To add salt to the injury, the team of smartasses from Satra started making some shit in their tent, and they’re loud as fuck.

I did it, I talked with Keln and he agreed to let me join the party tomorrow. FINALLY! I will spend the rest of the day writing down all of the simple recipes I know, just in case if someone happened to me someone else can cook for these poor fools. Sucks to be the only cook I guess.

DAY 7

It’s bad. I had the same dream again, and another person is missing – one of the Satran guys. Of course everyone started panicking, even Keln and Mef lost their shit when trying to calm them down. Turns out the Satran guys were making a weapon, or rather assembling it. It’s some weird rod which shoots fire, kinda similar to the stuff The Guard uses, but I guess less effective. They let us take it on the trip, which starts in a few minutes.

I’m back in the camp, wet, hungry, exhausted, and still with no trace of the missing people. It’s beyond me what could happen to them. There is no trace of footsteps, of someone being dragged, nothing. We encountered some animals, mostly birds and snakes, all of them high on the trees. And the ruins, I finally saw these. There are remnants of a few circular structures, but far too big to be wells, and there are remains of the floor in them. No damn idea who could build these, but 100% these are not made by a human hand.

DAY 8

It only took a week to be away from civilisation for us to return to monkey

Another 3 people went missing over night, one crewmate and another 2 of the rich kids. These fuckers straight up said that they don’t want to stay with us no longer because they’re afraid AND THE BEST IDEA THEY GOT WAS TO SPLIT AWAY FROM THE CAMP!!!! I can’t make this shit up, I just can’t. They even tried to convince others to go with them, and sadly, one of the science guys did. Good fucking riddance, less mouth to feed. I bet they will come back crying tomorrow.

But, not all hope is lost! Sanac said he managed to send a message back to Derumi, with the coordinates of the island. No idea how it works, I’m not a mage. Tomorrow I will try to explore the shore to the north from were our camp is. I cannot believe we’ve been here for a week, and still haven’t made any actual progress in mapping the area. The search parties only went west, to the forest, and all we found were the trees, ruins, and some snakes.

DAY 9

Just like I expected, 2 of the kids came back. Their “leader”, if you can call her that, this spoiled bitch whom I mentioned earlier got a great idea to set another camp near the ruins, but it turns out that they’re not talking about the ruins we saw 2 days ago – they found something else, in much better state according to what they say. Scrap the shore, I have to see the other ruins.

I visited the camp of the Seran kids. Southwest from the beach the first camp is, they found something which looks like a giant tower and they’re camping there. Turns out I underestimated them, or at least some of them. Few of them seems to know how to hunt, but I wonder how long will they survive on snake meat and whatever they managed to steal from us when they departed. This bitch tried to convince me to join them, too. Her name in Zava, and her father seems to be some of these random Seran nobles that we, working folks, give no fucks about. Now, after seeing where they are residing I want to explore this island even more. There seems to be more behind these trees than I initially suspected.

DAY 11

Yesterday I haven’t wrote anything. I was too tired after my trip around the shore and shit I’ve seen, on top of that Keln had a problem with the fact I just went alone, like he has any authority over me now. Your ship is there captain, on the shallows. Besides, sitting on the supplies stockpiled on the beach haven’t helped us much so far.

First, it started raining soon after I left. I thought about coming back, but I found a small cave where I could wait, and I cursed myself for not taking any lamp because I swear that there was something deeper in this cave. I’m sure I heard something, I had my weapon ready, stuck between the downpour and that thing.

After the rain stopped I moved further south, past the kid’s camp and I discovered more ruins. I’ve entered one of these but had to quickly extract my ass from there, because some giant lizard made it’s nest on the stairs. Strangely enough, it did not chased me outside.

Now to think about it, I have to write it down. To help me process it. I saw many animals, but they’re always on the trees, or rocks, or just flying. I’ve never saw them on the ground. It may just be a coincidence, but the more I think about it, the more it creeps me out.

I had to go back, but I think I saw something which looked like a mast? Behind the rocky cliffs to the south. I have to check it later. It’s 11th day, early evening now. People rarely talk with each other. It’s just sad. I hope that we can get rescued from here soon, befor\_\_\_\_\_\_

DAY 12

Another one is missing, this time one of the worms. These fuckers now dare to accuse us, and they almost got kicked out of the camp. If not Sanac, they and the science guys would kill each others. We’re down to 33, if we count the 8 kids who went to form their own little society. If it keeps going, we’ll all be gone soon and we STILL have no idea what happens with these people. There is no trace of them. Everyone is paranoid, me included. I have hard time writing anything. And I had the same dream again.

DAY 13

I talked with Sanac about my dreams and turns out, he had similar. We’ve gathered everyone in the camp, worms included, and apparently many of us shared the same dream. Standing on a rocky cliff, in pitch black place? above pitch black pit. Some said they looked into the pit, but could not describe what they saw. Sanac said we might be up against an eternal one here. Most likely a fear-eating demon. I’ve heard before that magic can alter dreams, so it would make perfect sense. If it’s really a demon, we have to find the fucker’s body. Eternal ones can be killer, and I will plunge my own hook into it’s head, if it has one.

DAY 16

I’ve broken my fucking leg in this fucking cave, which turned out to be flooded. In the last 2 days we mobilized the remaining people to search the island to find the demon who has been taking us one by one. My first idea was the cave, but it was flooded past the 10 meters in. I could have sworn it was not when I was hiding there. There I slipped and broke my left leg, I cannot walk but luckily we had a potion which suppressed the pain.

After I was down the rest of us searched the northern shore, finding, can you fucking guess MORE RUINS. These are massive, as they say, and I cannot fucking even go there to see these. They said they could not go inside however, that the main gate was blocked by some blue crystals and even Sanac’s magic could not destroy these. If a demon is hiding anywhere it’s most likely there.

DAY 17

I cannot walk, the crystals are still not broken, another one of us is missing. Everyone is furious. It’s raining again. I want to go home. I love you Kannan.

DAY 18

We’ve all lost braincells since we got here. All this time we’ve been trying to break some unknown crystals instead of the old wall to get inside. The wall, unsurprisingly, was turned into dust as soon as Sanac blasted it and our boys with hooks and satran fiery shit marched inside. Even I am here, I’m just using a long hook as a crutch.

DAY 20

Whatever it was inside the ruins, it did not went down without a fight. It looked like flying flame, with 7 long eyes gazing at us, and growing the same crystals it used to block the entrance, but on the floor, to kill us. I’ve never seen a demon like this. I’ve never seen a demon in-person, only pictures in the books, but they all were\_\_ comprehensible? This thing was like a shapeless blob. 2 of our crewmates and one of the Satran scientists died in our battle against it, and I can’t forgive myself I wasn’t much help. I could only shoot at it with this rod they gave me, I’ve hit it like 2 or 3 times but I don’t think I did any damage to it. It was pierced with 4 harpoons before we knocked it down, and it landed in some sort of an open pipe, full of stagnant water. Many of us are wounded, but we did it. We vanquished the fucker.

I’m not sure if it’s dead, but I hope it won’t bother us any time soon.

DAY 23

Another person missing

It was raining for 2 past days

This thing is not dead

This thing it still somewhere on this island and I will find it

ITS IN THE FUCKING WATER

DAY 27

The camp was moved to the forest as far from the ocean as possible. It took 3 people last night. It’s only 19 of us in the camp, and 8 in the kid’s camp? I’m not sure, we haven’t heard from them in a long time. Something is in the ocean, it’s long, it bursted from under the sand grabbing whoever it could and dragged them to the water. We hit it, we made it bleed, it sprayed some of us, me included, with it’s blood but it did not let them go. AWAY FROM THE OCEAN STAY AWAY FROM THE OCEAN

DA\_ 31

We are doomed

We saw it I saw it

A ship on the horizon

It came to rescue us but it was destroyed

I keep having the dreams

We are all going to die

DAY 34

7 people who came to rescue us managed to made it to the shore. We’ve been trying to gather whatever remained from their ship, Lamplight, from the beach without being caught by the thing from the ocean.

I can walk, somehow. My leg healed impossibly fast, nobody has no idea why. Even Kahni, healer from Lamplight. She never saw a broken leg healing so fast. It doesn’t hurt but the problem it that it’s still crooked. I have to walk with the hook as a crutch to not fall over.

DAY 36

Kahni examined my leg. She said that, despite being curved it’s perfectly fine and healthy. According to her, injury like this being healed in the matter of days is not possible without a help of some experienced healer, aided by strong kraken blood elixirs. It does not hurt.

DAY 40

The new camp reached to us. They wanted to trade for the healing supplies we got, Zava has gotten sick. Keln to fuck off, but Kahni went to help them anyway. We’re all becoming animals here.

DAY 41

People start to lose faith in Keln’s leadership. They question him more often than before, especially the guys from Lamplight. Their captain drowned, they got no actual leader. For some reason they have been looking for me? I’m just a cook. I just make food for them. Sometimes help with other shit.

DAY 42

We had no more loses since we escaped from the beach. I’m sure this thing is still there, but it cannot reach us. Lamplight people ask me what we should do. I’m no leader, but they don’t trust Keln. So does Mef. I’ve been browsing my notes from the earlier days and I remembered the mast-like thing I saw to the south. Maybe it’s a good idea to check it out?

DAY 43

It’s a graveyard of ships.

It was an actual, rotten mast, of one of multiple wrecks that rest on the southern shore of the island. We’re not the first ones here, nor the last. But it’s not even the ships that terrify us so much. If so many people crashed here before us why haven’t we found any bodies?

DAY 44

We identified some of these ships. It makes no damn sense. The newest wreck we found is Sea Slasher, kraken hunter vessel which went missing a few years ago, but there is also Derumi Pride II, a ship sunken OVER 100 YEARS AGO. Is this just some weird nightmare we can’t wake up from? Why are some of the ships stacked on top of each other? What happened to the crews?

DAY 45

New camp found something strange, and they wanted Sanac to analyse it. Some sort of weird effigy, it looks like a long octopus with a sphere instead of the head, but sphere is broken. Nobody has ever seen anything like this, but I found it weirdly beautiful. They said they found it in the cave under the ruins they live in. It now remains in my shack, among my pots. It fits there.

DAY 46

Zava herself came and demanded me to return the effigy. I told her to fuck off. It’s mine. Go find another one. I’ve broken my fucking leg and now have to waddle crooked. I deserve something. I’ve been feeding these fools and it finally paid out. They stood on my side.

It’s been raining again so instead of checking out the shipwreck cemetery we searched the circular ruins near our camp and found a basement under one of these. We’ll send a search party tomorrow.

DAY 47

We finally found a use for the worms. There are some flooded catacombs under these ruins, and we’ve found many stone tablets there, covered by something which looked like the runes the worms use. I also finally talked with one of them in person, I’ve been avoiding them for this entire time. His name is like zau-mahhhld, no idea how to write this. I will just call him a Red Worm, because of his red hair.

Red Worm is one of the remaining 2 who speak Seran, he could translate some of the tablets. He says that the runes are not of their language, but rather something their language evolved from. According to him, a tablet with a drawing of the thing similar to my effigy says something along the lines of:

VISAGE OF DEEP

LURKING FEEDING FESTERING

MISTAKEN OUTSIDER OUTER

SEED OF MALFORMED STAR

NATURALBORN OF ABYSS

I have no idea what any of these mean.

DAY

I had the dream again, but this time I saw something down there. Sphere. It wanted something from me, and it wanted to give me something.

DAY 48

I don’t remember when I wrote the last entry. I feel sick and hopeless but at the same time, I know that there is something to this island, and before I’ll die here I want to uncover it. Today we’re going back to the crystal ruins, just in case the demon came back.

We explored the ruins, but there is no trace of the demon. What we found however, was a way deeper into the building covered by more crystals but this time we were able to blow them up without much trouble. This had to be some sort of an industrial building, I’m sure of that, due to the amount of rusted and rotten machinery submerged in the water in the chambers below, but there were some weird machines which looked like new, covered in crystals. Is that what the demon was using to hunt us?

DAY 49

New camp wanted the effigy back again. No, not the camp. It was just Zava. She thinks it is hers. It’s mine. If I ever go back to the mainland, I’m taking this with myself. It will stay on my night stand.

It will look good there

Kan will love it

DAY 53

I killed Zava.

This bitch has sneaked into my shack and stoled MY EFFIGY

We marched straight to the new camp but she refused to give it back. She said it was her. BULLSHIT IT’S MINE

I've beaten this spoiled fucking cunt to a bloody pulp with my hook until my arm broke loose from the shoulder. It was on the day 51, since then my arm has healed.

What it happening to me

What am I

DAY 54

I have to write, even if nothing except rain happens. I have to remember. My name is Qwess

Q W E S S

I’m not a murderer. It was a just execution of a thief. Of an enemy of my camp.

I have to remember who I am. This island won’t win. It won’t take me. People are on my side. My effigy is back in my shack, where it belongs. I will lead them back to civilisation, and if I can’t, I will make my own.

DAY 55

The songs were true THE EMPEROR IS REAL

We went back to the shipwreck cemetery, and the pile of ships rose up. It walked into the ocean on a legs larger than the Satran skyscrapers. I’ve never seen something so beautiful. It walked into the ocean, leaving a crater where it was sleeping for who knows how long.

DAY 5

The sphere in my dreams showed me me a way. A map, to a ruin in the heart of the island. A road to itself. It wants to see me, and I want to see it. I want to know it. And kill it.

DAY 59

We explored further west, to the opposite end of the island. We found an entire city of gray ruins, with a few towers looming high over our heads. It’s like a twisted, rotten version of Satra. I’ve been in Satra once with my son. Now I’m leading the others like my children. I saw the demon again, watching us from one of the towers. I KNEW IT WASN’T DEAD

I tried to chase it, but it escaped. It will pay for what it has done to us on the beach.

DAY 61

2 months since I’m here. Last night, we took all the booze from the wreck to celebrate.

I’ve lost a few kilos, my hair is a mess. I’m crooked. I look like a monster, we all do. The crew of Deep Blue all looks like dirty worms now, ironically the remaining worms look better than some of us. Maybe it’s because they look like this by default? People from Lamplight are now like our family. Sanac is like my own brother. Even the red worm is no longer as disgusting as I remembered him to be. Booze makes us all equal, even the worms.

We’re like animals now and I’m the head of the pack, I don’t even know when it happened. Keln is till technically the “leader”, because he was a captain. I’ve been thinking a lot of what happened in the past 2 months. I look like a corpse but I feel great. I’ve killed an another human being and I know that I should not, I was always told that it was a bad thing to do, but I feel like I did a RIGHT thing? The effigy, after all. It understands. My new family here has forgiven me. Sanac, Kahni, Mef, science guys, even red worm. Especially Kahni. She’s so different than Kannan. I hope that, if I came back, my wife can forgive me. We all have our needs.

DAY 62

I had a terrible dream today. I was at the pitch black cliff again, but not alone this time. Zava was there. She was talking to me, but it was not her voice. She called me to bring what remains of her to the real cliff, as a tribute. To the king.

We’ve been thinking all day with Sanac what it could mean.

DAY 63

It’s a war.

The fucks from new camp attacked as at night, and murdered 7 of us. They got a new leader, some fuckface jock named Rahnert. He said it’s a revenge for Zava. We fought back, but it was an ambush in the middle of the night. We only got 3 of them. 4 more to go.

I saw the red worm fight for the first time. I knew them worms can pull pincers or claws, tails and shit out of their asses but for voids sake IT WAS A FUCKING CENTIPEDE TAIL and he ripped a kid apart like a piece of rotten wood. We’ve put his body at the spike on the beach. Kahni asked why and then it got to me that I don’t know.

I’ve been doing many things just because, because I somehow know why. Yet, I can’t say it out loud. I cannot even put it on paper, the thoughts are so abstract, it’s like water? Kaleidoscope? If I had to put it into a words in Seran, it would be like looking into deep water through a kaleidoscope.

What the fuck am I writing

DAY 64

The body was gone when I checked in the morning. When Kahni found me, she said I was staring at the ocean for hours. I lost the track of time, but it felt so good. She joined me. After we were done I stayed on the shore, she returned to the camp. She was asleep when I returned.

Why haven’t I stared at the ocean before? I was always told not to. To not look into the depths for too long. WHY??

It’s so beautiful

It’ s

It’s

Different, unknown, beautiful, and it wants me to SEE IT

DAY 67

The new camp and the demon joined their forces. They attacked us again in their last wicked stand, with some magic even Sanac has never seen. The demon could no longer fly, and it escaped with Rahnert when we killed the remaining 3. I’ve ordered to leave the bodies on the shore.

Tribute to the king

DAY 68

I found where they buried Zava. I’ve dug up her corpse and took it back to our camp. I will keep her in a bag, until I find the place. People wanted me to put her back in the ground, or leave on the shore.

I know better.

The effigy

this is why she wanted it

now I UNDERSTAND

DAY 7

I’ve killed Keln personally. I’ve send groups to search the island and the ruins to find the WELL and he tried to stop me. I’ve gouged his eyes out. I’ve eviscerated him like a fish.

When people were searching, I was left alone in the camp. I left the head and heart on the shore as tribute. The rest I used.

I’m a cook after all. I always loved cooking. I’ve used what IT\_\_\_ left for me as a reward on the shore. The sand was stained with the purple blood. The nectar of the sea. I added it to the soup.

Once they come back, they all will understand.

DAY 8

The demon is still trying to hold us.

I skipped a few days, but I was very busy. Northwest we found it, behind the ruins where the demon resided, we found it again. It was trying to push us away from the TEMPLE.

I found it, on the very summit of the island. I can see everything from here. The shipwrecks, the forests, the rotten city, the demon’s first stronghold. The ocean. In all of it’s beauty. From here, when the sun sinks into the water, for but a brief moment I can see it below us. I’ve always thought that the archive in satra was massive. Poor satran fools. I cried, for they will not find the island any time soon. Their mere understanding of the word “massive” is a fucking joke.

DAY 9-

The demon and it’s crystals are weakening. We will breach TEMPLE soon.

The last kid, the last enemy of my king is inside. He told me the name of the demon, which was even worse that the names of the worms. He is trying to put poison in my ears, calling us mad. He says that I am being lead astray. He lies that the demon was trying to save us.

FUCKING SAVE US

If by holding off the vassals who gather the tribute for the king he was saving anyone, I am a fucking Fenaro Knight. We should have finished the demon when we still had a chance.

DAY 117

The demon gave up.

I have the access to TEMPLE

DAY 143

It’s hard for me to admit, but I lost my journal. So much happened since we went inside! The ancient towers, the stairs into the deepest waters where the COURT is.

Right, I should start from the beginning.

The camp was moved to TEMPLE. I still cook for us, but now I am much more. Redworm says I’m like a shaman of his people. Shaman is such a nice word. I’ve actually let him call me like this, and the rest quickly started calling me like this too. Qwess The Shaman. Got a nice vibe to it.

In it’s last effort to annoy me, the demon shat out all of it’s crystals to cut our way to the COURT. We’ve been still digging through. Fuck the demon and may it rot in the void. I gave up on trying to find it. I know where it is, and I know it poses no threat anymore.

Kahni shares my pit now. I was allowed to share the BLOOD with her, and now she’s like me. She has been experimenting on her own body, trying to write down what we really are. I don’t need to have it written, because I know, but I allow her. We all tribute to the king in our own way.

Sanac and redworm moved to the rotten town, they’re translating the old words from there. Some folks who could not stand the darkness of the TEMPLE joined them, but we’re still in contact.

The last kid is still alive. I keep him alive, I promised he will be my final tribute to the waters. He’s trying to bend my mind, he is still not understanding. What I trudge towards he fears, and calls by other words. What is different, yet unknown and beautiful he calls

WRONG

ALIEN

ELDRITCH

DAY 181

I gave up on writing these. Originally I wanted to keep these if I ever come back to Derumi. I won’t. I don’t want to. Soon I will breach the last few meters of the crystals between me and the waters.

DAY 200

The way to the waters is open. It’s a way I have to take alone for now, for the others cannot walk the abyss like I know I can. Kahni can too, but the has to stay. She will be the new shaman if the king rejects my tribute. I have the bag of bones. I’m leaving this book to Kahni. Water would destroy it, and I still have some sentimental love for these memories.

YEAR 1

No reason to note every day. They’re irrelevant, sunlight does not reach COURT anyway. I’ll be only writing the notable o

YEAR 2

No new ships joined.

YEAR 3

No new ships joined. Our son has been born.

YEAR 4

No new ships joined.

YEAR 5

No new ships joined.

YEAR 6

No new ships joined.

YEAR 7

No new ships joined.

YEAR 8

Kraken hunter vessel named Serration joined. 14 new landborn. 3 decided to drink the blood. The rest was a tribute.

YEAR 9

No new ships joined.

YEAR 10

No new ships joined.

YEAR 11

A stranded boat of a fisherman was brought by the children of the king. One landborn. He joined.

YEAR 12

No new ships joined. Sanac has died due to an injury he suffered when excavating 7th tower. He joined the king in the COURT.

YEAR 13

Another kraken hunter vessel named Bloodwhip joined. 17 landborn, they fought us to death. One of them had a device similar to what Sanac used all of these years ago to bring Lamplight to us. We had a good laugh about this.

DAY 5167

3 ships have arrived. Red Hand. Cyclone. Bane of The Abyss. Too many to count. They slaughtered my people, us who bow to the king. My love is dead. My sons are dead. Redworm has fallen when defending the TEMPLE. Mof has sacrificed himself to call the vassal. The one we once foolishly called an emperor. I am going to the COURT, where the waters will protect me.

The king has others like me. Vengeful ones, one for each ship. These will sink, in time. All will sink.

I will retrieve this book once it happens. Once our isle is safe.

If someone finds it, you’re welcome to read. To copy, if you wish, but please leave it where you found it. It’s important to me to remember. My mind is like water now, and water is never constant. These are my memories. I’m sure you will understand. We’re still humans, both of us.

We just bow to a different kings.

## **In-game**

Qwess is a beginner-friendly healer, with the strongest single-target healing ability in the game.

Abilities
 Breath of the Deep
If marked ally is healed again, they are healed by additional 4 health instantly.
 Abyssal Effigy
All enemies in 12 blocks withing the Effigy are defiled and slowed by 45% for 2 seconds upon taking any damage.

## **Trivia**

* Qwess was the first character whose story was told from first person, and thus, is not 100% accurate to the real events.
* At the time of his release, Qwess's story was the longest out of all characters.
* His kit was designed as a replacement for the Parasite Host.
* Despite being color-coded dark purple, the curse of the effigy is not considered a separate effect.
* Qwess and Kahni are the only playable characters confirmed to have children with each other.