Torrin: Returns through his mysterious box after wandering a lightless void. He carries a stuffed likeness of Th'Marck, receives a young Panthex named Mr. Tickles, and leads the interrogation of the Veyan researchers.
Yurias Castus: The only Harbinger who retains his level, equipment, and divine connection after the passage through the Dios Ostium. He kills the attacking Shrykes and receives guidance from Phaedras through the Tome of Stars.
Ernan: Awakens with old chain burns around his arms and his original guitar restored, though he insists that the instrument is not Isabella and no longer sounds right.
Bjorn: Retains only the axe component of Helvegen, summons a living Odo, and hears Magda Navaa warn that the party is in danger after he connects with Ephthalas.
Vyr: Finds that her Ix Crystal has reverted to its earlier state and grapples the larger Shryke during the battle at the hunting barn.
Helena: Emerges with almost no light remaining in her vial and is twice brought near death by the larger Shryke.
Whisper: Uses the shistel to summon the Shrykes and is nearly killed when the larger creature pins him inside the abandoned barn.
Logia: A familiar young girl encountered by Torrin in the darkness beyond his box. She disappears and leaves behind a stuffed animal resembling Th'Marck.
Th'Marck: Torrin's absent companion, whose resemblance to Logia's stuffed animal suggests that Veyan light may once have transformed the toy into a living being.
Odo: Bjorn's Shryke companion, unexpectedly restored to life and nearly unchanged from when Bjorn last saw him.
Ernest: A friendly traveler nicknamed Bubba who is heading toward a local festival. He gives the Harbingers the Panthex he found beside the road.
Mr. Tickles: The young color-changing Panthex given to Torrin by Ernest and named by the party.
The Veyan Researchers: Two ancient Vey operating beneath the Felrick cache. They seek release from immortality by severing their people's connections to light and darkness.
Magda Navaa: Bjorn's former mentor, whose voice reaches him through his vision at Ephthalas and warns him of immediate danger.
Phaedras: The shadow goddess who speaks to Yurias through the Tome of Stars and tells him to rely upon his retained memories and experiences.
Lily: Missing when the Harbingers emerge upon Scarsden's shore, despite having entered the Dios Ostium with them.
Nana: Torrin's small construct companion, absent after the Harbingers' return to Scarsden.
Sethis: Goddess of twilight and the absent power whom the Veyan researchers claim to serve. They believe her disappearance deprived the Vey of their ability to die.
Solarus: The divine light to which the Vey remain tethered. The researchers attempt to remove both its light and the corresponding darkness from their people.
Phaedras: Goddess of shadows, death, and forbidden knowledge. Her surviving connection to Yurias makes him the only Harbinger who remains fully empowered.
Veyan Death: The researchers regard death as a release that their people were meant to receive. Their work seeks to restore mortality rather than preserve eternal life.
Harbingers of Light: Returned to the beginning of their journey with their memories intact but most of their accumulated power removed. They investigate whether the world around them is real, remembered, or constructed.
The Vey: An ancient people unable to die naturally after the disappearance of Sethis. Some exiled Vey have devoted centuries to escaping that condition.
Velpan Trading Company: The merchant organization whose murdered driver was transporting plague-tainted supplies toward villages near Andros Port.
Felrick Family: Normandy's family, whose hidden cache occupies the entrance to a far older Veyan sanctuary.
The Chain: Draxus Cale's dominated society. Its citizens begin materializing from the shadows within the Chained Fortress when light from the open Dios Ostium reaches them.
Shrykes: Shadow-born flying creatures summoned by Whisper's shistel. The Harbingers encounter a hostile young Shryke, a deadly adult, and several additional young creatures near the abandoned barn.
Odo: Bjorn's restored Shryke, whose survival is one of the first signs that the returned Scarsden does not follow the history the Harbingers remember.
Panthex: Small feline creatures whose coloration changes with their surroundings. Ernest finds a young Panthex beside the road and gives it to Torrin.
The Antlered Shadow: A dark, leshy-like being glimpsed by Torrin and Bjorn during their visions at Ephthalas. It resembles the Watcher Helena previously encountered.
Nulls: Veyan bodies stripped of both light and darkness. The researchers say these empty beings rise again, resist containment, and have sometimes been buried within the mountains.
Plague-Tainted Cargo: Infected goods deliberately included within a shipment bound for villages around Andros Port despite the region's outward prosperity.
Tome of Stars: Phaedras's divine manuscript, still carried by Yurias after the other Harbingers lose most of their legendary possessions.
Helvegen: Bjorn's all-blade, reduced to its original axe form when its other components disappear.
Ernan's Guitar: Ernan's original instrument, restored in place of Isabella but unable to reproduce the sound or identity he remembers.
Ix Crystal: Vyr's Veyan crystal, returned to its earlier state before its alteration by Acuras.
Helena's Light Vial: A vessel containing only a faint remnant of the light Helena accumulated during the campaign.
Torrin's Compass: One of Torrin's few surviving possessions. It points toward him, trembles, and then loses its light.
Stuffed Th'Marck: A toy left behind when Logia vanishes from Torrin's lightless path. Torrin suspects it may reveal Th'Marck's original nature.
Normandy's Treasure Map: An old map recovered from Normandy's cabin that leads to the Felrick cache and the concealed Veyan complex beneath it.
Shistel: Whisper's whistle-like instrument for summoning Shrykes. Repeated use brings increasingly dangerous creatures to the hunting barn.
Glister Cache: Barrels of Felrick wealth stored in the outer chamber of the hidden sanctum beside the remains of a long-dead henchman.
Atrosa Inscription: A Veyan command word that opens the concealed passage behind the Felrick cache.
Veyan Waygate: A crystal-powered portal hidden behind an illusionary wall. It connects the sanctum to several ancient sites across Tyve.
Regression of Power: Passage through the Dios Ostium reduces nearly every Harbinger to the power they possessed at the campaign's beginning and removes most later equipment, transformations, and divine gifts.
Yurias's Preservation: Yurias alone remains at full strength with all of his possessions. Phaedras's continued presence may distinguish him from the others.
Memory-Built Reality: Familiar places possess detail where the Harbingers remember them clearly but become blurred, empty, or incomplete elsewhere. Shadows remain unusually precise throughout the reconstructed world.
Nightly Theft: After sleeping, the Harbingers repeatedly feel that something small but unidentifiable has been taken from them.
Ephthalas Vision: Torrin and Bjorn perceive ruins, a black lake resembling ichor, and the antlered shadow beyond the ordinary appearance of the temple.
Veyan Immortality: The ancient researchers claim that the Vey cannot truly die while they remain tethered to Solarus without Sethis to provide an ending.
Creation of a Null: Removing both light and darkness from a Vey body produces an empty being that eventually rises again.
The Green Revision: A sweep of green light changes the populated Veyan laboratory into an ancient ruin, exposing the difference between the preserved scene and its present physical state.
The Keph Void: A pulsing absence where the dragon should stand atop Keph. It contains no recoverable detail and cleanly erases objects placed inside it.
Materialization by Light: Within the Panopticon, light from the open Dios Ostium causes people to emerge from shadow as the surrounding world gains detail.
Eastern Shore of Scarsden: The beach where the Harbingers emerge from the Dios Ostium, near the same coast where their Tyve journey began.
Normandy's Cabin: The abandoned home where the Harbingers recover Normandy's old map. It appears almost exactly as it did at the beginning of the campaign.
Ephthalas: The ancient temple where Torrin and Bjorn glimpse the black lake and antlered shadow hidden beneath its familiar form.
Road to Andros Port: A prosperous agricultural region whose residents deny the storms and scarcity known elsewhere, despite a plague-tainted shipment traveling toward their villages.
Abandoned Hunting Barn: The structure where Whisper's shistel summons several hostile Shrykes.
Felrick Cache: A hidden chamber marked on Normandy's map. Its treasure room conceals an entrance into a much older Veyan complex.
Veyan Laboratory: A crystal-lined sanctuary where researchers experimented upon immortal Vey and created at least one Null.
Twilight Temple: A destination reached through the waygate. It is empty and indistinct, with none of the people the Harbingers expect to find.
Keph: A deserted, partially rendered version of the keep whose structures blur between stone and crystal. A destructive void occupies the dragon's expected location.
Karn: A waygate destination that immediately covers the portal in frost, convincing the Harbingers not to enter.
Gavra: The city whose great viridian stalag still contains a portal linked to the Chained Fortress.
The Panopticon: Draxus Cale's empty throne fortress, where the Harbingers find the Dios Ostium open and the Chain's citizens forming from shadow.
Dios Ostium: The ancient Door of God, now open within the reconstructed Chained Fortress and radiating the light that gives surrounding shadows recognizable form.
Return to the Beginning: The Harbingers arrive near their original Scarsden landing with early possessions, diminished power, and people or creatures restored to states that contradict later events.
Th'Marck's Possible Origin: The stuffed animal left by Logia suggests that Torrin's companion may have begun as a toy animated through Veyan light magic.
The Felrick Occupation: Normandy's family used the outer section of an ancient Veyan sanctuary as a hidden storehouse without fully exposing its deeper history.
The Veyan Search for Death: After Sethis disappeared, immortal Vey researchers attempted to sever their people from both divine light and darkness so they could finally reach a natural end.
The Null Experiments: Failed efforts to restore Veyan mortality produced beings that could not easily be destroyed or contained. Some were reportedly buried within the mountains.
Sealing of the Dios Ostium: The researchers claim that Valens Avarith sealed the ancient gate and left exiled Vey outside the Ithelion's inner lands.
Construction at Ephthalas: Ancient Vey performed rituals and built structures at Ephthalas in an attempt to open a path to Sethis.
The Preserved Past: The researchers speak as though the Veyan war occurred only centuries earlier, but the green revision reveals that their laboratory and bodies have long since decayed.
The Incomplete World: Scarsden, the Twilight Temple, Keph, Gavra, and the Chained Fortress appear to be assembled from remembered details rather than existing as complete, continuous places.