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Chronicle of the FallenThe Dying Provinces
A death in The Dying Provinces
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Henry the Storyteller, Dead

Henry's obsession with crafting elaborate shadow-plays and tale-cycles—performances meant to distract the provincial lords from their wars—drew the attention of entities that feed on narrative itself. In his final hours, as he wove a story of a merchant's descent into a haunted temple, the boundary between teller and tale grew thin. The spirits answered his invitation.

The 8th Day of Cherry Blight, Year of the Worn Seal. He was found in the storyteller's house near the old marketplace, seated cross-legged before a cold brazier, his lips still moving though no sound emerged. Around him lay scattered paper, ink stones, and wooden masks carved for his performances—all of them facing inward, as if watching him rather than the reverse. His eyes had turned the color of ash. When the neighbor's son entered, a cold wind came from nowhere and scattered the papers across the floor in perfect circles.

Survived by

his apprentice, two innkeepers who hired him for winter gatherings, and the collection of provincial lords who had grown dependent on his stories to pass the endless evenings of their cold war

“A storyteller must never step into his own tale, or he becomes both the maze and the lost traveler.”
— his apprentice, who now fears to finish any tale Henry left incomplete
Services Body to be burned without ceremony at the shrine of the Forgotten Spirits, his ashes scattered where four provincial roads meet, so that no single lord may claim him. His masks will be buried separately, facing downward.
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