[Day 19] Ravat, the Lover of Leaving

Ravat, the Lover of Leaving

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It does not matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

― Jelaluddin Rumi

Ravat is a demon who has fallen on hard times.

Ravat is basically humanoid. Each of its long graceful limbs ends in a sharp point and it walks equally well on all of them on all surfaces. Its face is perfect, like a cut diamond. Its body is silver scales and lithe muscles.

Ravat seems to have little regard for gravity or distance. One moment it is a blurred figure on the horizon, the next it is close enough to lick your earlobe. It can get to anywhere it can see in one step, provided it isn’t restrained, but is incapable of standing still. It will fidget, cartwheel lazily, and pirouette on the ceiling, but never be at rest.

The Lover of Leaving is a demon of discontent. It asures you that what you have is not as good as what is over the next hill, that a roof over your head doesn’t hold a candle to adventure. It will tell you that a shining mystery is always better that a dull certainty, however comforting it might be.

Only, in this world which is hurtling towards oblivion, it rarely succeeds in uprooting the frightened and fatalistic. The prevailing feeling among humans is that there is no horizon worth exploring.

Ravat lives for its few successes. It made the Grothnie brother of Grift set out in a skiff to find the Endless Sea’s farshore. It nudged Elgin the Poniard to see what really transpires in the Blood-Countess Anthelia’s bower.

That the brothers are two years missing and Elgin was found naked, stiff-frozen and mutilated does not alter Ravat’s central thesis one bit. Daring the unknown is always the better option.

Hp 11, Morale 6, no armor, sharp limbs 1d6

Special: Ravat may attrack three times per round. Bladed weapons do only half damage to it, but restraints do double. Usually Ravat will flee rather than fight, and given that it can take one step an be at the horizon’sede, this is usually a good strategy.

Ravat may teach the scroll Grace For A Sinnerif it wishes.