Cheth-of-the-Salt-Shore

A formerly enslaved crab-man who escaped and came south down the
God River. The pivot of the campaign’s emerging arc.

What he did

Preached the divine spark in the crab-men’s tongue, drawing human
debt-workers and crab-men alike into the congregation that gathered
at the tidal salt flats south of Old Town. His central claim:

A being made property could not have been made so by any god
worth the name.

The slug-lords called it insurrection and put it down. Officially:
eleven dead, three days of confrontation, called the
Salt Shore Disturbance. Cheth was absent from the official record —
not listed among the dead but taken deliberately, by men who
knew who they were looking for.

Why he matters now

• The anonymous letter writer (Turn 04) directed Vothrog at
  the name Cheth-of-the-Salt-Shore — “find what was done to that
  name and your argument will have teeth it currently lacks.”
• Krah-Moh carries a veth-cheth wave-scar — a giving mark
  that can only be conferred by someone who carries Cheth’s
  congregation forward. The mark is recent — the shell still
  healing.
• The unnamed old crab-man
  recognized the mark before Krah-Moh spoke a word and revealed,
  through Krah’s relay, that Cheth appears to be alive somewhere
  distant, and that Krah-Moh came from that direction.

Where he is now

Unknown. South and east of the Yellow City — Krah-Moh’s gesture in
Turn 15 pointed south and east, toward the open water, then
curling back (“from far away. Coming back.”). The next move of
the campaign is the road south.

Status

Presumed alive, distant. Off-stage. The pivot.