“A keeper in the Fulmen quarter swears the little griffin’s back-cog turns by itself at dawn — and for one hour after, every clock in the house runs three minutes fast.”
The clocks are not broken. They are keeping up.
Rare · First of Its Kind · One of 25
Cogwing
“Born of Mistwing of SonnRays and the Wheel Bug of INSTAR: a soft cloud and a war machine, and it chose to be gentle.”
A Windiron spark of The Kindled
an open question
The living story
The story so far
Cogwing hatched in the hour after a stray gear fell out of INSTAR’s sky-forges and landed in Mistwing’s nesting cloud. The cloud-mothers say the gear was still warm, and the chick that pecked its way out of the shell had already swallowed the ticking. It was the first braiding the multiverse ever tried — nobody told Cogwing that, of course. It just woke up, clicked its back-cog three times, and tried to fly before its feathers were dry.
Happening now
It has appointed itself Keeper of the Hour. Every dawn it climbs the highest thing it can find — a shelf, a shoulder, a sleeping dog — and turns its back-cog until the ticking lines up with the sunrise. Then it announces the hour, loudly, in a voice like a tiny brass bell. It is never wrong. This unsettles the actual clocks.
What may come
The cog on its back is growing. Slowly, tooth by tooth, season by season. The INSTAR smiths say a wheel that grows is a wheel becoming something — a mill, a compass, a door. Cogwing doesn’t know what it’s becoming. It just keeps winding, keeps landing exactly on the hour, and trusts the ticking.
Bloodline
Born of Mistwing of SonnRays × Wheel Bug of INSTAR — two sparks, one becoming.
Connected
New blood seeks new kin — sparks across the multiverse Cogwing has already befriended.
Whispers about Cogwing
“Mistwing’s nest-mates say she taught it to land. It lands fine. It simply refuses to land at anything other than exactly the hour.”
Ask it to land at half past. Watch what happens.
“An INSTAR smith examined the cog and went quiet. “That’s not one of ours,” she said. “Ours don’t grow.””
Then whose is it?
Why someone keeps Cogwing
- because it winds its own courage up every morning — three clicks — and you could use a friend who does bravery out loud
- because it’s the only spark in the multiverse with a heartbeat you can hear ticking
- because it was born of a soft cloud and a war machine, and it chose to be gentle
The Kindled
Every crossbreed begins here: two sparks from different corners of the multiverse, braided into one new life. Rare, $15, editions of 25 — minted the hour they are born.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Windiron
- Bloodline
- The Kindled — Born of Two Bloodlines
- Rarity
- Rare
- Personality
- A skyforged griffin chick with downy silver storm-feathers, a living cog-wheel ticking softly on its back, and amber eyes flecked with gold. Cogwing winds its own courage up every morning — three clicks of the cog — and lands exactly on the hour, every hour.
- Edition
- One of 25