Krah-Moh
A free crab-man, ochre shell with old work-scars and a fresh
white wave-scar on the left shell — the veth-cheth, a giving
mark conferring transmission, given by Cheth-of-the-Salt-Shore
himself and recently received.
Krah-Moh speaks no Common. He navigates Old Town from memory —
suggesting he knew the Ward of the Salt Shore personally before
he ever met Vothrog. He came up the God River from somewhere
south. Loyal. Present. Quiet.
How he entered the campaign
Turn 01 — Cornered by Watch constables in the Copper Ghetto
alley after the congregation meeting scattered. Saved when Vothrog
descended from the rooftop and bribed the Watch with 4 gp claiming
Krah was a Magistrate’s house-servant whose collar had been left at
home.
The mark
In Turn 13 Vothrog examined the wave-scar closely. The
veth-cheth (“the wave that carries”) appears in pre-Oligarchy
High Tongue theological texts in exactly one context: the
transmission of divine truth between vessels, the spark jumping the
gap between bodies. It can only be conferred by someone who carries
the tradition of Cheth’s congregation, and the recipient is marked as
one who carries something forward. Krah’s scar is recent — the
shell still healing at the edges.
The unnamed old crab-man at the
tidal mark recognized the mark before Krah-Moh spoke a word.
Relationships
- Vothrog — his rescuer; his current traveling companion.
- Cheth-of-the-Salt-Shore — apparently the source of his mark.
- Old crab-man at the tidal mark — recognized him by the scar.
Visual
Appears in Turn 15 scene (claw-gesturing
relay between Vothrog and the old man).
