Names: Nabu-Sîn - Qorathi
Alignment: True Neutral
Province(s): God of the Desert, Thirst, Writing, Lost Memory, and the Preservation of Knowledge
Common Symbol: A stylised reed pen resting across a parched

Al-Katib is the god of intellectual thirst and the preservation of knowledge. Where his father Al-Sama measures the cosmos in perfect order, Al-Katib measures memory and meaning, recording the truths that others lose. The deserts of Naplica became his domain after Hēiyào’s fire destroyed the forests of his youth, and from this desolation, he learned that truth is preserved not in life, but in the written record.

He appears as a thin, parchment-colored man, blindfolded with a third eye painted in ink, hands forever stained with black script. Among the Irashani, he rides a skeletal camel, carrying an endless satchel of scrolls. His followers see him in the whisper of sand against stone or in the shifting patterns left by wind on the page.

He resides in the Library of Dust – a subterranean vault beneath endless dunes, where shelves are carved from bedrock and knowledge survives beyond fire or flood. Here, every leaf lost to flame is remembered, every thought written in microscopic script for eternity.

Al-Katib drives mortals to discover what has been forgotten. He does not gift knowledge to comfort or guide, but to challenge, to make men “thirsty” for understanding. He is patient, obsessive, and cold, speaking only in whispers like sand against parchment. His obsession with the Total Record extends to all mortals: every discovery, every ruin, every vanished memory is a fragment of his divine calculation.