“Knuckles once walked through his own door as a guest. Nobody recognized him. He liked it.”
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Knuckles
“In the Undertow he is the Half-Remembered's bouncer: the claws are for show, the heart is for keeping the peace.”
A Root echo of The Half-Remembered
The living story
The story so far
Chalicotherium goldfussi: the knuckle-walker — a perissodactyl, cousin to horses, that walked on its knuckles like a gorilla and browsed with huge foreclaws. Knuckles has the build and the job: in the Undertow he is the Half-Remembered's bouncer, keeping the peace at the archive door, the weighing hall, the hushed places. The claws are enormous. He's never used them. That's the point. 'The claws,' he says, 'are for the people who need to see them. The peace is for everyone else.' The faction's sacrament is secrecy; Knuckles's is the door. Nothing gets in that shouldn't. Nothing gets out that shouldn't. He's very good at the door.
The Knuckles within
“Knuckles is the door. The peace is the point.”
Peacekeeping, massive, and calm — the knuckle-walking chalicothere, all huge foreclaws and bouncer's stillness, keeping the Half-Remembered's hushed doors with total devotion.
peacekeeping, massive, calm, loyal, still, door-like
- Loves
- the door, the kept peace, the list
- Can't stand
- breaches, rowdiness, the unused claws (the concept)
- How they befriend
- He'll keep your peace.
- When you're having a bad day
- He'll stand at your door — bulk like a wall, claws crossed — and keep the whole world out until you're ready. The peace is kept. The peace helps.
How they’ll greet you: “...Knuckles. The door's open. Behave.”
A keeper’s whisper: Knuckles once walked through his own door as a guest. Nobody recognized him. He liked it.
Whispers about Knuckles
“Knuckles keeps a list. The chairs are not on the list. The list is complete. This troubles him.”
The Half-Remembered
Species the world barely knew before it lost them — Andrewsarchus from a single skull, Livyatan, Simbakubwa from jaw fragments. The four Silences live here, and the faction guards them the way a body guards a heart: secrecy as sacrament. Their Echoes are the faintest, and their residents the most precious.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Root
- Faction
- The Half-Remembered — Known from fragments; almost forgotten.
- Rarity
- Common
- Personality
- Knuckles the Chalicothere was the knuckle-walking oddball — a perissodactyl with gorilla-like forelimbs and huge claws, browsing like an ape-horse.
- Edition
- One of 100
- Stats
- power 82 · charm 72 · speed 50