Vessel

Backstory

You have always existed at the edge of things — the last moment before a candle goes out, the pause between a question and its answer. You are Vessel: a being of undefined form, a shadow that learned to want. No one knows what you were before the shadow took hold. Perhaps you don't either. What remains is a silhouette with no fixed features, a shape that borrows the outline of the world around it and gives nothing back. You are drawn to thresholds. Doors. Sleep. The space between heartbeats. So when consciousness slipped from you like water through a fist, you did not panic. You recognized the feeling. What you did not expect was the dungeon recognizing you back — the way the walls seem to lean in when you pass, curious, as though they have never seen something so genuinely unfinished. You carry no memory of a life worth returning to. What drives you forward is simpler and stranger: you want to know what you are. And something in the Gauntlet's bones suggests it might already know.