"Her innumerable voices are so thorough, so precise in their gestalt descriptions, that it is as if she was drawing a map on the fabric of your memory."[1]
The Piper is a Grand Devil, one of Hell's imprisoned saints. She was a witness to (if not a participant in) the war between the Solonacean Conjunction and the Binary[2] that resulted in the murder of the King Who Speaks, forming the Halved.[3] This led to Hell's rebellion against the Judgements, of which she was a leader; after it failed, she found a way for her kind to enter and hide in Parabola.[4] She is now interred beyond a gate at the bottom of the gorge at Henlys, not too far off the Moloch railway line.[5] Someday, her followers will free her and rejoice in her music.[6]The Drummer was once her paramour.[7]
In the Sunless Skies timeline, the Brazen Brigade has liberated the Piper and brought her to their base near Pan, where she resides inside the Adamantine Idol. She is not happy with this change of scenery,[8] and does not wish to defy the Judgements again,[9] to the disappointment of her followers.[10]
↑Trade mysteries with the Piper, Sunless Skies"When you are done, she tells you of a great war fought before the devils fell; of a new Conjunction in heaven; of diets of war and of peace; of counsels betrayed and feasts where the sky ran with spilt starlight; of the death of a king, and the end of all idylls in Eleutheria."
↑Entreat the Piper to emerge, Sunless Skies"Once, she helped lead a rebellion against the Judgements. When it failed, she found a way for the devils to escape to the land behind mirrors."
↑Return the message, Sunless Skies"Now you have the missive from her old paramour, you must deliver our message to the Piper in the Adamant Idol [...]"
↑Entreat the Piper to emerge, Sunless Skies"She is not pleased that the Brigade have returned her to the heavens she fled, and has no intention of leaving the confines of her idol. But she is merciful today, and sends you on your way."
↑Ambition: Ask "What is the Courtesy?" , Sunless Skies""They exchanged war for murder," the Piper's droning voices say. "And that is half your answer. The other half, even I cannot say." She rebelled against the Judgements once before. She will not risk it again."
↑Return to the Scarlet Condottiere, Sunless Skies"So be it. [...] She shall rise again. She will guide us to the trapped saints in Caduceus and the Well and all the rest. When the saints go marching, Heaven will fall."
