Once, a scholar known only as Madam Liché began a documentation of ‘phrases and words that invoke power within landscapes.’ It is said that she became a conduit for several dormant entities. It is also said that for her pryings, she paid the ultimate price.

Years after Madam Liché’s sudden disappearance, her documents were compiled by one Dr. Junius Harcroft of the Merilica City Library. Utterly mystic in nature, it is perhaps easy to disregard this work as the fever dream project of a tormented old widow. However, the Keywords theory came to include contributions from hundreds of different scholars and seekers, and remains a popular topic among the occult-minded still to this day.

On The Passages Hidden Behind Sleep
– Part dream journal, part accounts of something Liché calls the Several Dreams, in which she meets old and forgotten wights contained within landscapes.
Severance and its Scions
– The first wight documented, described as an ‘earthquake with many voices’.
Funeral Rites: the Land Beyond Last Breaths
– An investigation of a coven of witches said to invoke a cold shadow by way of quiet mourning.
Preservation, Appetite, Instinct
– Encounters with a wild woman, during which Madam Liché accounts the secrets that humankind, for better or for worse, forgot.
Praises to Mountains and Craftsmen
– Accounts of wights contained within active volcanoes, and the ancient blacksmith-sects that worshipped at their roots.
Strife: Warfare, Curses and Blessings
– Final words on the scions of Severance, and their connection to war.
Sunne, the Land of Truth
– Said to be the finding that slew Madam Liché: Rapturous accounts of the Sun and the ‘Wights Above Wights’