Knothole
“His mind is sharper.”
A Canopy reptile of The Ancient Shells
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
He invented the rain-stomp as a juvenile, drumming his feet on the leaf litter during a dry spell and watching, amazed, as the worms came up. He has been refining the technique for twenty years. Current repertoire: drizzle, shower, and the dreaded downpour.
Happening now
He teaches the rain-stomp at the forest school — enrollment is competitive, graduation requires summoning ten worms in under a minute. His star pupil did it in forty seconds. He keeps the record shell-etched. He updates it grudgingly.
What may come
He is writing a field guide to forest foraging: "Stomp Like It’s Raining." It covers worms, mushrooms, and the ethics of trickery. ("If the worms come willingly," he writes, "is it really a trick? Discuss.")
Connected
Why someone keeps Knothole
- because he fakes rain with his feet and the worms believe him
- because "Stomp Like It’s Raining" is a real field guide
- because the Professor’s ethics of trickery will make you think
The Ancient Shells
The shelled ones: sea turtles, tortoises, terrapins, snappers — the slowest hearts and the longest memories. Fifteen shells, none of them in any hurry at all.
$15 · One of 150
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Canopy
- Coil
- The Ancient Shells — Turtles and tortoises
- Rarity
- Rare
- Personality
- The forest’s most resourceful forager. Knothole stomps his feet to fake rain, luring earthworms to the surface — a trick so clever it feels like cheating, which is why the other turtles call him "the Professor" and mean it. His shell is sculpted like carved wood.
- Edition
- One of 150
- Stats
- power 26 · speed 10 · charm 5