God of Clocks

A boy was given a riddle and told that if he worked out the

answer he would understand the secret at the heart of the

universe and thus know god. The riddle went:

A man and his new wife step down together from the altar of

a church, walk hand in hand along the aisle, and reach the

door at the same instant. During that short march, which one

of them travels the greater distance?

Scribbles from the Severed Hand of Polonius. Deepgate Codex, Ch. 339.

When I was dying on that battlefield, I got set upon by ticks.

I had enough life left in me to pull their tiny paddle bodies

off, but the heads stayed in and I lived. The wounds healed

right over those heads and now they're part of me forever,

like canapes for the soul.

“The Tale of Tom Granger.” Deepgate Codex, Ch. 88322