A long-tenured eccentric researcher in the basement of the Collegium of Ordered Aether. “YGOR is YGOR, who has been here for a long time.”
Appearance / vibes
- Wispy gray hair lost to neglect.
- Long stained leather apron over an academic robe, color-blotched over time.
- Unaligned eyes.
- Long fingers stained with… something. Tapping at unseen things.
- Each hand writes independently.
- Speaks in fragments. Hears voices.
His lab
- Body parts in jars. Circulatory system pinned on the wall. Bookshelves, tools, workboard.
- Smells: paper, wax, floral, preservatives — underlined with body odor.
- Notes everywhere: “do not disturb, wait do disturb, never mind.”
- “Come in, door is unlocked, lock is in a jar somewhere.”
Knows things
- About the Heart — recognized it on sight, tried to unbuckle Lorien’s breastplate without asking.
- About the Lockbox — six-sided and cursed.
- About the Weeping Lord (Ilmater) — said he may have use for Lorien later.
Quotes
“A guest, a guest!!”
“It’s for the mysteries.”
“Death is a concept, but don’t worry my boy — it will be painless.”
“Dissection not possible. Extraction maybe possible.”
In the campaign
- Encountered by Lorien in Session 34 after he got lost in the Collegium basement.
- Examined the Heart in Lorien’s chest. Touched it; remarked Lorien should be dead now. Took notes calling Lorien a specimen.
- Refused to let Lorien speak with Mistress Quill.
- Disappeared the moment Lorien opened the door to leave.
- Left a note for Lorien to come back soon.
- Session 38 — reunited with the (disguised) party at his door, now littered with even more notes, including one warning not to bring the cube all the way inside. Immediately clocked that something was different about Lorien (“There is a gap in your timeline”) and that “Carl” was carrying the cube. Tested Lorien’s memory by having everyone give their names; declared his tea spoiled and threw it over his shoulder. Rotated the cube — now six inches per side and larger than before — to reveal one word per face: Counted, Recorded, Acknowledged, Witnessed, Remembered, Endured. Theorizes the cube stores memories rather than erasing them, wants to study it against Lorien’s amnesia, and turned uncharacteristically serious discussing how rare — and dangerous — it could be in the wrong hands.