The Piebald Dreamer
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"A splotchy piebald specimen, she would be unremarkable by London rat standards were it not for two things. One: her spectacular doublet ensemble, complete with billowing slashed sleeves and golden needlework in tiny ratty hand. Two: she is here, in Parabola, where rats are not usually found."[1]
The Piebald Dreamer is a Rattus Faber an experienced traveler can encounter in Parabola should one wonder around the The Viric Jungle.
The Questing Rat
"I'm on a quest," the Piebald Dreamer repeats, lowering her voice as if she hadn't just been shouting this fact to an angry panther and all the Parabolan undergrowth. "I'm looking for the first ratty historians – the Endless Chroniclers."[1]
The Piebald Dreamer is a young adventurer concerned with the fact that Rattus Faber in London seem to only live in the present day and increasingly seem to be comfortable with fitting into Londoner's view of them as talkative vermin, or useful labourers while completely forgetting their own history and culture through their blending with the London's society.
Her solution to this overlooked crisis is to search for the Endless Chroniclers whom she claims are the survivors from the days of the Saint, storytellers of the past, trapped in Parabola by a vast and ancient power.
The Knot of Tales
"The Knot of Tales is a Fingerking, I think. Some of the stories say that it appeared as a writhing knot of tails. Some of them say rats' tails, even. But –" she almost pauses, as if unsure about putting forward her hypothesis "– tangled tails is just a common anxiety dream. I'm pretty sure it's a snake."[1]
Finding the Knot of Tales is Piebald Dreamer's goal. A mysterious Fingerking living in the mythical Garden of Knots a location hidden deep within Parabola, far from the routes frequented by most travelers located somewhere between Waswood and the Moonlit Chessboard. To access the Garden of Knots - one needs to know the location and the entrance has to be bought for the price of a story.
