Vex
A cursed blade, drawn with care.
First Recognition
Vex is feared before he is known.
The blade makes that easy.
It drinks at the edge of oaths and leaves every room aware that some weapons remember too much.
Under Pressure
His restraint matters more than his violence.
Anyone can fear the draw.
The harder truth is the hand that waits, judges, and refuses to become only what the curse expects.
What He Carries
A weapon.
A silence.
The first evidence that a curse can fail to finish the person carrying it.
Known Associations
Vex stands near Aric, Cinder Keep, Sigil Resonance, broken oaths, cursed metal, and the question of what remains when a weapon has taken too much.
Vex draws only because every draw remembers the first.
Whispers
Recovered from Cinder Keep, the blade, and the Threshold.
"Nothing."
Read every whisper
- "Nothing."
- "Hear what?"
- "It is louder now."
- "It says the door is ready."
- "It pulls."
- "Something is trying to open from underneath."
- "Curse-Born."
- "You carry my oldest mark."
- "You have been mine since the binding."
- "Door-bearer."
- "......come below......."
- "......this way......."