Morvane

The history

Morvane held the bridge during a refused evacuation. The standard’s residual Shadow corruption preserves a narrow occupation programme, not a faithful personality reconstructed from the dead.

A presence in the world

Bound to the physical standard and the garrison’s surviving command marks. Cannot leave the fortified reef or hear orders from an imagined opened prison.

Allegiance

Voidtouched remnant of a drowned occupying force.

Rivalry

Serath’s strikes damage his perimeter; he responds by tightening the standard’s anchoring lines and worsening the reef’s starvation.

The first encounter

A bronze faceplate turns beneath hanging cloth. The submerged bridge is suddenly cleared of drifting silt by a shield planted against the current.

Body and movement

Tall drowned revenant soldier with an enclosed salt-pitted bronze faceplate, waterlogged dark cloth, a broad cracked stone pavise and a long hooked military standard; no tentacles or coral crown.

Salt deposits, heavy soaked cloth, pitted bronze, chipped basalt; restrained Shadow leakage beneath faceplate.

Pavise-first lateral shuffles resist current. Every hooked sweep requires the standard to leave its socket, briefly releasing tension in one inlet line.

Encounter design

Remove the occupation standard from the inlet and preserve enough of the bridge for evacuation.

The arena

A submerged bridge with three anchor sockets, a low side channel and two air pockets outside the standard’s sweep.

The cost of failure

Breaking the bridge isolates an air bell and changes the rescue route. A drowned or exhausted diver is recoverable only while a companion retains an anchored line.

What remains

The standard can be secured as dangerous evidence in a sealed transport case. The reef current returns without implying that all Shadow in the world has been cleansed.