Gloam — preserves
Sexton
Kept as it fell
An uncommon Gloam practitioner who keeps a place as it fell, preserving ruins, monuments, sealed districts, and the records of their custody.
uncommonRarity, not rank. A practitioner is one thing for life.
A Sexton keeps a place as it fell. Decay is arrested rather than reversed: a ruin holds, a monument resists weather, and an abandoned city remains abandoned in good repair. The practice preserves an existing condition and does not restore the place to use.
The orders employing Sextons often descend from the same authorities that sealed what the practitioners maintain. Their registers record which districts, passages, and collections entered custody and where that custody continues. Edrane can recover documents others call lost because its Sextons preserve the state record and know what their predecessors put away, not because their work discloses what another power concealed. Osira’s archives use the same principle and state it more openly.
Custody does not decide whether a place should remain closed. That limit produces the dispute with Reclaimers. A Sexton treats a dead city as a record whose condition carries meaning; a Reclaimer treats the same city as a place that might live again. Neither classification supplies the political authority to settle which purpose prevails.