Curators
"Intelligent, locomotive-sized chiroptera, able to pry an engine apart with their claws, or pummel it with their hellish shrieks. Curators accumulate hoards, which they guard violently. Each hoard collects artefacts or creatures themed to the Curator’s particular obsession."
Curators are a race of space bats that hoard treasures in the High Wilderness. The Short-Sighted Cryptozoologist thinks they might be the same race as the Masters. Curators are encountered as enemies you can engage in combat with, as well as characters in certain ports.
Curators' Eggs
Curators attach their large, papery eggs in between asteroids. These Eggs can contain other treasures, and horrors, as well.
Named Curators
Mr Barleycorn in The House of Rods and Chains
Mr Menagerie sells Scouts, various small animals that find and mark items on your chart while exploring the High Wilderness. He moves around various ports.
Mr Pennies in Lustrum. He buys Hours, raw time in physical form mined from the Mother of Mountains.
- (Spoiler) It turns out that Mr Pennies is acquiring Hours because he uses them to keep a bunch of other, extremely elderly, Curators alive in a cave up the Mountain.
