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Legendary · One of 5

Barreleye

“Nothing passes overhead that Barreleye does not see first.”

A Lurelight denizen of The Twilight

3 known connections · an open question

The living story

The story so far

Barreleye has spent its whole life looking straight up. When the scientists finally photographed it, they found the head was a living window — the eyes swivel inside the fluid dome like instruments in an observatory. The Twilight trusts its weather reports: when Barreleye's eyes go wide, the migration fleet changes course.

Happening now

Every dusk it takes its station beneath the migration lanes and reads the sinking silhouettes the way a harbor master reads sails. Lately it has been watching one patch of water longer than the others — the patch where the Sound was last heard, three years ago.

What may come

The seers say a day is coming when something crosses the light overhead that has no silhouette at all. Barreleye will be the first to know, because Barreleye looks up for a living.

Connected

Whispers about Barreleye

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The Twilight

The last blue light, 200 to 1,000 meters down. Every night the lanternfish rise in the greatest migration on Earth — and every dawn, those who do not return feed the Midnight.

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At a glance — details & stats
Element
Lurelight
Zone
The Twilight — the sunfall drifters
Rarity
Legendary
Personality
The seer of the Twilight, who reads the surface world through a window in its own head.
Edition
One of 5
Stats
power 40 · speed 55 · charm 88